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A Legal DID is a non-transferable on-chain identity token connected to verified identity claims and issued to a specific wallet. RNS.ID also refers to this product as LDID, or Legal Decentralized ID. The token is associated with selected public identity and compliance claims. Public metadata and permission-based KYC access are separate parts of the product.

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How it works

  1. You complete the applicable RNS.ID identity-verification journey.
  2. RNS.ID creates the eligible Legal DID record.
  3. You select the supported claims profile and destination wallet.
  4. The Legal DID is minted or airdropped to that wallet on the supported blockchain.
  5. Wallets and other services can inspect the selected public metadata. Partner KYC access is a separate permission-controlled service.
The production product supports Legal DID minting on Ethereum only. Sepolia and other test networks are not supported for production minting. If the wallet selector, mint review, or wallet prompt shows Sepolia or any non-Ethereum network—or if those screens disagree—stop and do not sign or pay. Contact support with a screenshot of the conflicting network information.

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What the metadata can show

Depending on your claims profile and identity status, public metadata can include validity, jurisdiction, sanctions-screening results, age thresholds, and additional identity attributes. A smaller public profile does not restrict the separate KYC service to those same fields. See Privacy and claims for the data-access distinction and access requirements.
A Legal DID does not guarantee that an exchange, financial institution, decentralized application, or other third party will accept it. Each service applies its own eligibility, compliance, and jurisdiction rules.

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Wallet control and transfer limits

A Legal DID cannot be transferred to another wallet, including another wallet you control. Confirm the destination address and network before minting. Changing your RNS.ID sign-in wallet does not move a token already issued to another wallet. An eligible identity can have multiple Legal DIDs, including more than one token in the same wallet. Wallet eligibility and pre-mint limits are separate from token count. Additional requests still depend on identity eligibility, request status, and applicable fees. See Wallet eligibility and multiple tokens.

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Token presence and identity validity

A token can remain in your wallet after the underlying identity expires or is revoked. Expiry or revocation does not itself burn the token. Holding the token does not, by itself, mean the identity remains valid or that a service will accept it.

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Privacy and permanence

You can change supported KYC visibility and claims-profile settings without a blockchain fee after minting. However, blockchain records and a minted asset are not ordinary account records. Permanently burning a Legal DID destroys that token and cannot be reversed.