Altify Integrates Didit for Investor Onboarding Checks

In Short

Altify and Didit have partnered to tighten investor onboarding and screening.

What Happened

Altify has integrated Didit to strengthen investor onboarding and compliance checks. Altify is a South African digital asset investment platform serving both retail users and institutional counterparties.

The integration adds identity verification and fraud checks for new accounts. It also supports ongoing compliance by screening users against sanctions and watchlist databases at onboarding and over time.

KYC means know your customer, it is the process of confirming a user’s identity before they can invest or transact. AML means anti-money laundering, it is a set of controls that help platforms spot and block suspicious activity.

Altify said the goal is to avoid running separate compliance stacks for different customer types. Retail investors, for example, may buy a crypto bundle in-app, while institutions may trade over the counter, which is a direct trade rather than an exchange order.

Didit said Altify selected stricter “liveness” checks, meaning the platform asks users to prove they are a real person in real time, like a selfie test that detects spoofing. Didit also claims fast decision times, which helps reduce drop-off during onboarding.

Why It Matters

Crypto and digital asset platforms face a constant trade-off between speed and regulation. Move too slowly and users abandon sign-up. Move too fast and the platform takes on fraud and compliance risk.

For platforms like Altify, a single workflow that adapts to both retail and institutional onboarding can cut operational complexity. It can also help maintain consistent risk standards across customer segments.

More broadly, tighter onboarding and ongoing screening is becoming table stakes in African fintech and crypto markets, especially as regulators focus on consumer protection, sanctions exposure, and financial crime controls.