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# Getting Started

Web3 is awesome and fun decentralization makes it quite unique. However, one cannot ignore the increasing number of bad actors in space. Since accounts are designed to be anonymous it not always easy for regular users to detect if the account they are interacting with is fraudulent or not.

Veriface is a verification interface and security shield you can implement into your smart contract to limit interactions with bad actors which makes the ecosystem more safer and secure

Veriface integration for your solidity smart contracts is quite simple, as simple as making a contract call to the Veriface protocol. This allows you to take advantage of the large database of accounts that have been identified by the protocol and either whitelisted or blacklisted without having to do so yourself.