Frequently asked questions

Thirty years ago, someone decided the way to prove who you are was to remember a word. Then a longer word. Then a word plus a code sent to a phone. Then an app to hold all the words you could no longer remember.

Every fix moved the problem somewhere else. None of them removed it.

SkinID removes it. A chip the size of a grain of rice sits under the skin of your hand, and our software turns it into the only credential you will ever need. Your passwords, your keys, your badge, replaced by a gesture you already know how to make.

We are a Swiss company, and this is the whole of what we do.

You hold your hand near a reader, the same way you tap a contactless card. It signs you into websites and apps, unlocks your laptop, and opens compatible doors.

No phone. No card. Nothing to type. Nothing to remember.

Because everything else can be left behind.

A phone gets stolen. A key gets lent. A card gets forgotten in yesterday's coat. Every solution built in the last thirty years has one thing in common: it lives outside you, and anything outside you can be separated from you.

Your hand cannot. That is the entire idea.

Today, it replaces your passwords and passkeys, your laptop login, your doors, your office badge, and your business card.

Tomorrow, on the same chip, with no second procedure: loyalty cards, hotels, gyms, tickets, your car.

Then payments, transport, and proving who you are without pulling out a document. Those need partners and certifications we do not have yet, and we will tell you the day we do.

One implant. And every year, one less thing you have to carry.

Two things, priced separately. The implant, bought once from a supplier. The software, a subscription. Final pricing comes at launch.

The first thousand people on the list get the software free, for life.

Three parts, three different answers.

The chip is not new. It is an NXP MIFARE DESFire EV3, an ISO/IEC 14443 secure element from the same family used in contactless payments and public transit systems worldwide. That family has been attacked in public laboratories for years, picked apart in academic papers, and certified against exactly those attacks. We chose it because it had already survived being broken into.

The capsule is not new either. Bioglass has been the reference material for implantable transponders for thirty years, with tens of millions of these capsules placed over that time. Inert, no corrosion, no reaction.

The software is. That part has never existed. The hardware has been sitting there for a decade, sold as a component to people who knew how to configure it themselves. Nobody built the layer that makes it useful to everyone else.

That is what we are doing.

Twenty-five years, guaranteed by the manufacturer. And that is only where the answer starts.

There is no battery to die. No moving part to wear. No chemistry inside to break down. The glass does not corrode, and the body does not touch it. There is, quite literally, nothing in there that ages.

The first of these went into a hand in 2013. They are all still working.

And if yours ever needs replacing, it comes out in a few minutes and a new one goes in.

No. You buy it wherever you like.

What we will tell you is which chip to look for. Not every implant on the market is properly secured, and only one meets the level of protection SkinID is built for. We will give you the links. Where you buy it is entirely your choice.