Trust Stamp Expects More Than 1 Million Enrollments in Three-Year Nigerian Deal
Key Facts
On October 26, Trust Stamp announced a three-year technology services agreement with Nigerian company BLIP Limited to provide AI-powered identity solutions for government programs in Nigeria. The agreement was described as a multimillion-dollar deal, but no specific financial value was disclosed. The companies expect more than 1 million people to enroll in the first year, across programs targeting a population of tens of millions. This expected scale gives the agreement a broad operational scope from the outset. Gareth N. Genner, Trust Stamp’s chief executive, called it "an important milestone in the company’s African growth strategy" and one of the largest deployments of its technology to date.
The services include digital enrollment, eligibility verification, certification and service management for government and institutional programs. BLIP will provide the enrollment platform, while Trust Stamp will supply the identity verification technology. The arrangement combines a local platform for handling enrollment with a technology specialist in biometric verification. Freeman Musa Yusuf, BLIP’s managing director and chief executive, said the partnership brings together Trust Stamp’s biometric technology and his company’s expertise in the institutional environment and the requirements for implementing programs in Nigeria. BLIP develops digital platforms and identity solutions for government and institutional programs in the country, with a focus on local implementation and data practices.
Trust Stamp relies on its "irreversibly transformed identity token" technology, which converts biometric data into identity tokens used for verification and fraud prevention. This processing is intended to reduce the risks of storing biometric data in its original form. The solutions will be deployed in a customer-hosted environment, keeping project data under Nigerian control. The agreement also provides for compliance with Nigeria’s 2023 Data Protection Act. The law governs the processing of personal data and aims to protect its security and the privacy of data subjects, according to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.
The deal comes in a market where Nigeria’s national identity system has expanded in recent years. The Nigerian presidency said on October 30, 2025, that the identity database had 126,717,316 enrollees, with about 25 million added in the previous two years. The presidency also reported that the system recorded an average of 1.3 million verification transactions a day in October 2025. The National Identity Management Commission said when it launched the NINAuth service on May 1, 2025, that the National Identification Number system included more than 115 million Nigerians and legal residents. This expansion provides an existing enrollment base for the agreement’s programs, which the companies expect to exceed 1 million enrollments in their first year.
The National Identity Management Commission launched NINAuth in May 2025 for digital verification of the identity number, saying it would be the mandatory channel for number-based verification by federal government ministries, departments and agencies. This forms part of an existing institutional identity verification infrastructure, alongside implementation of the new agreement for government and institutional programs. Trust Stamp provides AI-powered software to sectors including banking, finance, government and healthcare. The company operates in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The report did not disclose projected revenue from the deal or a specific financial impact on the company’s results.
In June 2026, Trust Stamp announced the closing of financing that provided net proceeds of $5 million, and said cash and receivables exceeded $7.6 million after the financing. This provides prior financial context for the announcement of the Nigerian agreement, without the report linking the financing to the deal. Genner said the agreement was one of the largest deployments of the company’s technology to date, but gave no estimate of its value or revenue contribution. The announced operational impact in the first phase depends on exceeding 1 million enrollments during the first year. The agreement itself runs for three years.