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The UAE will upgrade the blockchain infrastructure behind its national digital identity system, UAEPASS, and move its Digital Vault document repository to an Avalanche L1. The platform serves around 12.5 million citizens, residents and visitors, with the migration aimed at improving scalability and performance.
According to a press release, the decision was made by the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), which oversees UAEPASS. The platform allows users to verify their identity, sign documents and access government and private-sector digital services.
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UAEPASS provides access to more than 15,000 services and is used by over 350 government and private-sector organizations. Digital Vault handles the retrieval, storage and sharing of verified documents and credentials between users and institutions.
TDRA will move Digital Vault to a dedicated Avalanche L1 network. Unlike using a shared network, this architecture gives the system dedicated infrastructure and allows the operator to determine its configuration, access rules and other parameters.
This is expected to provide predictable performance regardless of activity from other applications. For UAEPASS, this is particularly important given the number of users and organizations that rely on the platform for document verification.
"The UAEPASS Digital Vault has become part of daily life for millions of people in the UAE, and the trust they place in it is something we protect every day," Dgov Operations Director Saeed Belhoul said.
According to him, the upgrade will prepare the infrastructure for the platform's continued growth.
Ava Labs said digital identity requires reliable performance at the scale of real-world government systems. The company views the UAEPASS migration as an example of Avalanche being used for infrastructure that must serve millions of people without requiring them to interact directly with the blockchain.
UAEPASS will not be the first major government project to run on a dedicated Avalanche L1.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles previously digitized around 42 million vehicle titles on its own Avalanche network. The move reduced the process of transferring vehicle ownership from roughly two weeks to just minutes.
In the UAE, the technology is being used for a different purpose—building infrastructure for trusted digital documents. Instead of having the same information repeatedly verified by every bank, government agency or company, an organization can confirm that a document was issued by a trusted source.
India's Arya.ag, the country's largest agricultural warehousing operator, is implementing a similar model. The company has begun using Avalanche to tokenize grain inventories, warehouse receipts and loan information linked to around $2 billion in assets.
The system is designed to make it easier for banks to verify grain used by farmers as collateral for loans. Avalanche is therefore gaining another major real-world infrastructure use case alongside government digital documents.
Earlier, we reported that AVAX outperformed Bitcoin and Ethereum amid growing institutional demand for tokenized real-world assets. Interest in RWA has been one of the factors supporting the Avalanche token.