InterLink surfaces as privacy identity play
Social chatter profiles InterLink as a privacy-first identity project with a dual-token model, 6.8M users, and plans for quantum-resistant features—claims its backers say justify a reported $20M Google-backed raise. The narrative is driving on-chain attention for identity and privacy primitives in early-stage DeFi stacks argued reported.
Crunchbase records Google as the lead investor in InterLink’s seed round crunchbase.com. Multiple crypto outlets report the project closed roughly $20M in early funding, naming strategic backers that include Binance Labs among others bsc.news. The whitepaper lists the network’s two native tokens as $ITL and $ITLG, with exchange guides and listings briefing the community on a planned Token Generation Event targeted for Q1 2026 whitepaper.interlinklabs.ai. InterLink’s own blog says the protocol logged 2.5 million verified users and more than 30 million biometric scans in early rollouts, and claims an internal NIST-style benchmark showed a 0.01% false-acceptance rate for its face-ID model interlinklabs.ai. The project published 2025 milestones naming features already live — an ITLX wallet, a Human Credit Score metric, and DAO governance primitives — as part of a broader rollout toward mass human-node adoption interlinklabs.ai. Market trackers such as CryptoRank list InterLink’s funding rounds and token sale events on their watchlists, and exchange research pieces from Bitget and Binance Square are amplifying on-chain interest in identity primitives across DeFi stacks cryptorank.io. Corporate updates filed in 2025 signaled intent to prepare for a U.S. capital markets pathway, with press materials citing pre-IPO planning and strategic commercialization efforts aimed at institutional integrations.
