Changelog
API changes, newest first. Breaking changes are announced by email and flagged here at least 30 days in advance.
2026-07-26
Added — initial public API
- Verifications —
POST /v1/verifications,GET /v1/verifications,GET /v1/verifications/{id},GET /v1/verifications/{id}/media. Full lifecycle: create → hosted capture → scored decision with hash-chained audit log. Docs - Hosted flow session endpoints —
POST /v1/session/consent|document|selfie|submitandGET /v1/session/state, authenticated by 30-minute client tokens. Docs - API keys — scoped keys (
idc_…) with create/list/revoke under/v1/keys. Docs - Webhooks — endpoint CRUD under
/v1/webhooks, HMAC-SHA256 signed deliveries (X-IdCheck-Signature), 3-attempt retry with backoff. Docs - Decision engine — 0–100 composite score with 80/50 bands and explainable reason strings; degraded ML never approves silently. Docs
Added — OFAC screening
POST /v1/screen/ofac— fuzzy SDN name matching with DOB corroboration;POST /v1/screen/wallet— exact SDN digital-currency address matching;GET /v1/screen/ofac/stats— data freshness. Data refreshed from live treasury.gov sources. Docs- OFAC screening now runs automatically on the document identity at verification submit time; strong matches decline, possible matches force review, and screening outages never fail open.
Added — duplicate-face detection
- 1:N face search during the selfie step against enrolled idcheck.now faces plus a ~2.6M-face fleet collection. Same face + different identity → automatic decline; seen-before → review. Faces are enrolled at submit. Docs
Added — free OFAC tier
POST /v1/free/ofacandGET /v1/free/ofac/stats— keyless OFAC lookups, 30/hour per IP withX-RateLimit-*headers. Powers the public tool at idcheck.now/tools/ofac-lookup. Docs
Added — device intelligence
POST /v1/signals/collect— keyless FingerprintJS signal ingestion with bot-signal derivation; links to a verification when a valid client token rides along.