Haven Wallet integrates YEO's continuous facial recognition SDK to solve crypto’s authorisation problem

YEO Messaging, the British leader in AI-powered secure communications with patented continuous biometric authentication, will exhibit at Mobile World Congress Barcelona, which starts on Monday. 

Ahead of the event, the company announces its latest live SDK customer, crypto wallet Haven. The integration delivers a world-first continuous authentication protocol within a self-custody wallet, using continuous, live facial verification to verify user presence.

The partnership tackles one of FinTech’s most persistent weaknesses: proving whether a transaction was genuinely authorised.

Addressing the authorisation gap in Digital Assets

Crypto users face constant threats, including phishing, SIM-swap fraud, device compromise, seed phrase theft, and social engineering. Traditional wallets rely on passwords, PINs, and 12- or 24-word recovery phrases that can be stolen, copied, or extracted from compromised devices.

Once assets are transferred, transactions are instant and largely irreversible. The core issue becomes evidentiary. How do you prove you authorised a transaction? And how do you prove you did not?

Matthew Cooper-Jones, Founder and CEO of Haven Wallet, said: “The fundamental issue in crypto is proof. Static credentials verify access at a moment in time, but they do not prove continuous user presence. That creates liability and trust challenges across the digital ecosystem.”

From Static Credentials to Continuous Presence

By integrating the YEO SDK, Haven embedded continuous facial authentication with liveness anti-spoofing into its wallet architecture. Instead of relying on static credentials, the system verifies that the authorised user is continuously present during access and transaction execution. 

In a privacy-driven crypto environment, the YEO Continuous Facial Recognition SDK authenticates presence without expanding the size of stored identity datasets. It shifts the model from data collection to verifiable anonymous authorisation.

• Haven’s integration of YEO’s Continuous Facial Recognition SDK enables:

• Demonstrable authorisation of transactions

• The ability to challenge unauthorised activity

• Reduced reliance on seed phrases

• Lower exposure to credential-based compromise

• Clear separation between identity data and authentication

• Regulation Is Raising the Stakes

The OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CAFR) is being implemented across participating jurisdictions starting in 2026, expanding reporting and intergovernmental data exchange obligations for regulated crypto providers.

As compliance requirements grow, limiting unnecessary data accumulation becomes commercially and operationally significant. Continuous authentication models that verify presence without increasing the exposure of stored identities represent a structural shift in how digital trust is engineered across financial systems.

Why This Matters for FinTech

Within financial services, digital asset platforms and regulated payment environments, encryption alone is no longer sufficient. The regulatory conversation is shifting toward demonstrable accountability, user-presence verification, and liability clarity.

As impersonation, synthetic identity attacks, and AI-driven fraud scale, the question is no longer “is it encrypted?”; instead, it is “do you really know who is on the other side?”

Alan Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of YEO Messaging, said: “We are moving into an era where digital finance must evidence authorisation in real time. Continuous authentication makes that possible without creating additional identity exposure. Haven’s integration of the YEO Continuous Facial Recognition SDK demonstrates what next-generation, privacy-first security truly looks like.”

YEO Messaging will be exhibiting within the 4YFN zone at MWC Barcelona, Stand 8.1B60.12.

Visitors can see live demonstrations of:

• YEO for Business Messaging Application with continuous biometric verification

• Geo-fenced technology, locking messages and documents to a specific location 

• Anti-Spoofing, continuous facial recognition for liveness 

• Safety-by-design infrastructure for regulated environments

Media, investors, fintech leaders and Web3 developers attending MWC are invited to connect with the YEO team to explore how continuous authentication can be embedded into wallets, messaging platforms and regulated financial infrastructure.

Meeting requests can be arranged in advance here.