Indian Railways has begun deploying TruFace, an AI-powered workforce verification system, across its 1.2 million employees. The system has been architected and developed end-to-end by ChainCode Consulting LLP, with Billions Network enabling privacy-preserving human and AI verification, while the Aptos blockchain powers immutable and tamper-proof attendance records.
The rollout begins in Prayagraj and expands across 7,300 stations and 18 zones nationwide - one of the largest workforce verification deployments in the world.
The Challenge: Verifying 1.2 Million Workers at Nation Scale
Indian Railways is the 9th largest employer in the world. 1.2 million workers. 7,300 stations. 18 zones. Operating across cities, rural towns, and remote stretches of track where reliable internet is not guaranteed.
A workforce this large and geographically distributed has historically been vulnerable to ghost employee fraud. Funds budgeted for workers who were never present. Traditional verification methods - paper logs, biometric kiosks, supervisor sign-offs - break down at this scale, especially where connectivity is unreliable and oversight is distributed across thousands of sites.
The problem is not unique to railways. Every large institution managing a distributed workforce faces the same question: how do you verify, fairly and accurately, who actually shows up to work - without compromising privacy or requiring constant internet access?
The Solution: TruFace, Built by ChainCode Consulting on Billions Network
TruFace uses facial recognition to confirm worker attendance, records every verification on a tamper-proof blockchain ledger, and runs fully offline. A single group photograph verifies an entire team at once.
Demo: TruFace + Billions Network
The rollout is across Indian Railways, beginning with operations in Prayagraj. The first regional deployment is expected to complete within three months, with expansion across the wider network to follow. TruFace was developed end-to-end by ChainCode Consulting - the same team behind the Blockchain-Based Ticketing (NFT Ticketing) initiative for MahaKumbh 2025 and multiple Indian government projects.
"AI-driven smart solutions with blockchain security are key to good governance. By combining facial recognition with blockchain's permanent, traceable records, we eliminate major security risks and give organizations greater control over workforce data integrity."
Alok Gupta, Founder and CEO, ChainCode Consulting
ChainCode Consulting is a blockchain and AI technology firm specializing in enterprise-grade decentralized solutions for government and private sector clients. Founded in 2019. Recognized among Bangalore's Top 50 FinTech Companies and recipient of the Blockchain Leader of the Year award at SmartTech Asia Innovation Awards 2025. https://www.chaincodeconsulting.com
Across India's Front Pages
The announcement was covered by India's largest business and national outlets:
- Economic Times
- The Week
- ANI
- The Wire
- The Tribune
- and 300+ media outlets that generated 20M+ unique impressions
How TruFace Works
Workers arrive at a station, depot, or work site. A supervisor takes a group photo. TruFace identifies each worker, logs attendance against the assigned schedule, and writes the record to the Aptos blockchain - permanent and unalterable.
Demo: How TruFace works for a user
Beyond attendance, the platform handles supervisor approvals, leave management, task allocation, and real-time reporting dashboards. It operates fully offline, essential for railway operations in areas where connectivity is unreliable or unavailable.
"Reliable, high-performance blockchain infrastructure is essential for nation-scale public-sector systems like DRISHTI, where data integrity, security and auditability are non-negotiable. Aptos provides a strong foundation that supports exactly these requirements."
Ashwin Pampati, SVP and Head of Ecosystem, Aptos Foundation
Aptos is a Layer-1 blockchain designed for scalability, security, and sub-second transaction finality. Built on the Move programming language. Strategic partnerships include BlackRock, Google, Mastercard, and Franklin Templeton. https://aptosnetwork.com/
Note: The demo features earlier TruFace branding. TruFace is the same application now deployed as DRISHTI for Indian Railways.
Why This Deployment Matters
- Scale of validation. A 1.2 million-person rollout under a government mandate is not a pilot. It is operational adoption at nation-state scale, in one of the most logistically demanding workforces in the world.
- Proven economics. The same underlying technology has previously cut ghost employee fraud by 90%, reduced payroll costs by 30 to 40 percent, and halved payment delays. Indian Railways brings those proven outcomes to a high-profile, fully auditable use case.
- A partner-led growth model. ChainCode owns implementation. Billions provides the verification layer underneath. Every contract ChainCode delivers becomes a reference for the next. This is how the model scales without Billions shipping every deployment directly.
- Built for environments others cannot serve. TruFace runs offline, produces tamper-proof records, and verifies multiple workers from a single image. These are requirements that conventional identity infrastructure was not designed to meet.
"Every worker in a system this vast deserves to be accurately identified and fairly compensated - without that requiring handing over sensitive personal data. That's the problem we're solving: identity verification that works for people. What India is building here shows how the world's largest institutions can operate with both accountability and dignity."
Evin McMullen, CEO and Co-Founder, Billions Network
Billions Network is the first Human and AI verification network - built on mobile-first, privacy-preserving zero-knowledge technology to scale trust in the age of AI. Created by the founders of Disco.xyz, Hermez, and Polygon. 2M+ verified users. Backed by Polychain, Coinbase Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, and BITKRAFT. https://billions.network/
What Comes Next
India is building public infrastructure at a scale the rest of the world will study. MahaKumbh 2025 ran on verification infrastructure from the same partner. Indian Railways is the next chapter. Adjacent sectors - public services, government workforce systems, large-scale industrial operations - face the same verification challenges and the same solution applies.
Our path forward: enabling partners to deliver privacy-preserving verification at nation-state scale, embedded into the institutions that move countries. Updates will follow as the TruFace rollout expands across additional zones and new deployments come online.
Billions Network institution-ready verification:
✅ Nation-scale deployment live.
✅ From Fortune 500s to DeFi platforms.
✅ Privacy-first by design.
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