Civic

Civic is the company behind the CVC token. In crypto it is best known for identity checks and Civic Pass on Solana. It is still running, but its main product is no longer crypto identity. Since July 2026 it has led with Bryn, an AI agent for sales teams. Bryn spots which companies visit a website and runs the follow-up the team has approved. Civic still offers Civic Auth, a login kit that gives users a Solana or EVM wallet when they sign in with email or Google. It also runs Civic Hub, which controls what AI agents can do. Civic Pass, the identity pass Solana apps used for KYC and bot checks, shut down in July 2025.

Is Civic dead? Civic's status in 2026

No. Civic is active, shipping products and posting on X most weeks. What has changed is what it sells. Civic's June 2025 update ended Civic Pass and said the company would focus on Civic Auth and on taking "the identity layer into Agentic AI". That autumn it launched an AI workflow product. In July 2026 it announced Bryn, a sales and marketing agent for business software companies.

For a Solana reader, this matters for two reasons. The product most Solana teams knew, Civic Pass, no longer exists. And the current homepage and pricing pages don't mention Web3, Solana or the CVC token at all. Civic Auth, with its Solana wallets, is the one crypto product still running, and its docs still label it beta.

Bryn by Civic: the AI agent for B2B sales

Bryn is Civic's flagship product today. Civic describes it as a "signal-based GTM agent", where GTM means go-to-market, the sales and marketing work of finding customers. It watches a company's website traffic, product usage and CRM records. It works out which business is behind an anonymous visit and scores the account for fit, intent and timing. Then it runs pre-approved "Plays": a Slack alert, a CRM task, an email or a personalised landing page. Every action is logged, and there is a kill switch.

The launch post pitches Bryn at heads of growth at mid-market software companies. The homepage also targets founders and first sales hires. Pricing at the time of writing runs from $49 a month for 200 accounts to $999 a month for 12,500 accounts, billed monthly with no contract, per Civic's pricing page. Bryn has no blockchain component.

Civic Auth: Solana login and embedded wallets

Civic Auth is a sign-in kit for web and mobile apps. Users log in with email, Google or another social account, or a passkey, and the app can create a crypto wallet for them automatically. Supported chains are Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum and other EVM networks. Civic added passkeys in summer 2025 and lists Apple, Facebook, X, Discord and GitHub among its social logins, according to its Q3 2025 update.

On Solana, Civic Auth plugs into the standard wallet adapter, so it appears in the usual connect-wallet menu next to wallets like Phantom. Choosing it starts the social login and creates the wallet. The app can then send transactions, sign messages and read balances through the @civic/auth-web3 package, per the Solana guide. Two limits stand out in that guide. Connecting a user's existing self-custody wallet to Civic Auth is listed as "coming soon". And a Civic embedded wallet can't be connected at the same time as the user's other wallets.

Civic Hub and Civic Nexus: controls for AI agents

Civic launched Civic Nexus on 23 September 2025. It connects AI assistants to a company's data and reporting tools through one link. The agent never handles passwords or API keys. Civic's current docs describe a closely related product, Civic Hub. It sits between an AI agent and more than 85 tool connectors that use MCP, a common standard for plugging tools into AI models. Admins set guardrails on what each agent may do, every tool call is audited, and access can be revoked instantly. The docs list a 14-day trial with 10,000 credits, then plans from $25 to $199 a month. The docs don't say whether Hub replaced Nexus or runs alongside it.

In Q4 2025 Civic added a Google Workspace connector and 36 more tool connectors, per its Q4 2025 update.

What happened to Civic Pass?

Civic Pass put a token in a user's wallet to show the wallet had passed a check. No personal data went on-chain. Solana apps used it to control who could trade, mint or join. Checks ranged from a CAPTCHA bot test up to liveness, uniqueness and full KYC.

Civic announced the end of Civic Pass on 11 June 2025. CAPTCHA and ID verification stopped on 1 July 2025, and uniqueness and liveness checks stopped on 31 July 2025. Civic said customers had been told how to transition, but published no public migration guide. Apps that still need on-chain KYC or proof-of-personhood on Solana need another provider.

Civic and the Solana Attestation Service

Civic was a founding member of the Solana Identity Group, with Solid, Solana.ID and Trusta Labs. The group launched the Solana Attestation Service (SAS) on mainnet on 23 May 2025. SAS is a shared standard for on-chain credentials. A wallet verified once can prove it to any app that reads SAS. The Solana Foundation said Civic Passes would work with SAS "without any action" from holders. Three weeks later Civic announced the end of Civic Pass. It no longer issues new credentials of that kind. We covered the SAS launch in our Accelerate 2025 talk summary.

CVC token: what it is and whether Civic still uses it

CVC is a token on Ethereum with a fixed supply of one billion. According to Coinbase's asset page, a third was sold in the 2017 token sale, a third kept by Civic and a third set aside for ecosystem rewards, with the last 1% covering sale costs. It was designed to pay for identity checks between users, validators and service providers.

Civic's current product and pricing pages charge in US dollars and don't mention CVC, so the token has no documented role in Bryn, Civic Hub or Civic Auth. It is best read as a leftover of the identity era. We also found a Solana token named Civic, with the CVC symbol, created in September 2026. It had almost no liquidity when we checked. Civic has not announced a Solana version of CVC, so treat any such token as unverified.

Who Civic is for now

Civic now serves three groups. Only one is in crypto.

• Solana and EVM app developers who want email or Google login with an automatic wallet and no seed phrases. This fits consumer apps and games onboarding people who have never used a wallet. It suits teams less well if their users expect to export keys or use the wallets they already have.
• B2B software sales and growth teams who want to act on website and product signals. That is Bryn, and it has nothing to do with Solana.
• Companies rolling out AI agents that need permissions, audit logs and a kill switch on what those agents can touch. That is Civic Hub.

If you need on-chain KYC, sanctions screening or one-person-one-wallet checks for a Solana app, Civic no longer offers them.

Civic risks: custody, beta status and product churn

Custody. Civic Auth's embedded wallets are created by a partner, MetaKeep. Civic says the service is non-custodial: neither Civic nor the app can move a user's funds. Keys sit in hardware security modules and "never leave the secure hardware", and each signature needs the user's consent. The trade-off is recovery. MetaKeep offers no seed-phrase export or manual backup, so access depends on the user's email or social login and on MetaKeep staying in business. Losing the login, or the provider failing, means losing the wallet unless the app has a migration plan.

Beta status. Civic's docs still label Civic Auth beta and warn of "occasional changes".

Product churn. Civic has dropped one Solana product line (Civic Pass) and moved its main focus twice in about a year. For a team choosing a login provider, that track record is the biggest risk: build so you could switch providers.

Audits. Civic reports SOC 2 Type 1 (achieved in Q3 2025) and lists SOC 2 Type 2 and Google CASA Tier 2 on its trust page. These are company-wide reviews of security processes, not code audits of any smart contract. Civic Auth wallets are ordinary wallets rather than smart-contract wallets, and our records list no Civic on-chain programs.

Civic alternatives on Solana

For social login with a built-in wallet, Solana teams can also use providers such as Privy and Web3Auth. Compare them on key export, recovery, chains and price. Those are the points where Civic Auth's docs show limits. For on-chain credentials now that Civic Pass is gone, the Solana Attestation Service is the shared standard. Other members of the Solana Identity Group, such as Solid and Solana.ID, issue credentials on it.

Civic history: from identity app to AI agents

Civic was founded in 2015. It sold CVC in a 2017 token sale to fund a reusable identity network. On Solana it became best known for Civic Pass. At Breakpoint 2023, Civic's JP Bedoya argued that apps should onboard users without a wallet app (our summary). Civic Auth later shipped that idea. From mid-2025 the company moved into AI. Civic Nexus came in September 2025, then Bryn in July 2026.