diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 97f4adf..532360c 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ include CONTRIBUTING.rst
 include HISTORY.rst
 include LICENSE
 include README.rst
+include requirements.txt
 recursive-include django_cryptolock *.html *.png *.gif *js *.css *jpg *jpeg *svg *py
diff --git a/django_cryptolock/backends.py b/django_cryptolock/backends.py
index 87b16fb..99637ba 100644
--- a/django_cryptolock/backends.py
+++ b/django_cryptolock/backends.py
@@ -1,6 +1,40 @@
 from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend
+from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
+from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
+
+from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException
+
+from .models import Address
+from .utils import verify_signature
+
+User = get_user_model()
 
 
 class MoneroAddressBackend(ModelBackend):
+    """Custom Monero-Cryptolock authentication backend."""
+
     def authenticate(self, request, address=None, challenge=None, signature=None):
-        pass
+        """Validates the provided signature for the given address and challenge.
+
+        This method currently relies on Wallet RPC access to verify the signature,
+        in the future it should be done locally to be more reliable and more
+        performant.
+        """
+        if not all(address, challenge, signature):
+            return None
+
+        try:
+            stored_address = Address.objects.get(address=address).select_related("user")
+        except:
+            return None
+
+        try:
+            is_valid = verify_signature(address, challenge, signature)
+        except JSONRPCException:
+            raise PermissionDenied(_("Error while validating signature"))
+
+        if is_valid:
+            return stored_address.user
+
+        return None
diff --git a/django_cryptolock/migrations/0002_auto_20191015_1141.py b/django_cryptolock/migrations/0002_auto_20191015_1141.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33eb58a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django_cryptolock/migrations/0002_auto_20191015_1141.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.2.5 on 2019-10-15 16:41
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        migrations.swappable_dependency(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ('django_cryptolock', '0001_initial'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterUniqueTogether(
+            name='address',
+            unique_together={('user', 'address')},
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/django_cryptolock/models.py b/django_cryptolock/models.py
index 6537af4..982c157 100644
--- a/django_cryptolock/models.py
+++ b/django_cryptolock/models.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class Address(TimeStampedModel):
 
         verbose_name = _("Address")
         verbose_name_plural = _("Addresses")
+        unique_together = ["user", "address"]
 
     def __str__(self):
         """Unicode representation of Address."""
diff --git a/django_cryptolock/utils.py b/django_cryptolock/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77aa44d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django_cryptolock/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from django.conf import settings
+
+from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy
+
+
+def verify_signature(address: str, challenge: str, signature: str) -> bool:
+    """Makes a request to wallet RPC to verify address and signature."""
+    protocol = settings.MONERO_WALLET_RPC_PROTOCOL
+    host = settings.MONERO_WALLET_RPC_HOST
+    user = settings.MONERO_WALLET_RPC_USER
+    pwd = settings.MONERO_WALLET_RPC_PASS
+    wallet_rpc = AuthServiceProxy(f"{protocol}://{user}:{pwd}@{host}/json_rpc")
+
+    result = wallet_rpc.verify(
+        {"data": challenge, "address": address, "signature": signature}
+    )
+
+    return result.get("good", False)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e5b8042..d2ca5db 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 django>=2.2
 django-model-utils>=2.0
 monero>=0.6
+python-monerorpc>=0.5.5
diff --git a/tests/settings.py b/tests/settings.py
index 3997583..e8e4bed 100644
--- a/tests/settings.py
+++ b/tests/settings.py
@@ -26,3 +26,7 @@ if django.VERSION >= (1, 10):
     MIDDLEWARE = ()
 else:
     MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ()
+
+MONERO_WALLET_RPC_HOST = "localhost:3030"
+MONERO_WALLET_RPC_USER = "test"
+MONERO_WALLET_RPC_PASS = "test"
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 980b53f..ae0f7f3 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ setenv =
     PYTHONPATH = {toxinidir}:{toxinidir}/django_cryptolock
 commands = coverage run --source django_cryptolock runtests.py
 deps =
-    django-20: Django>=2.2,<3.0
-    -r{toxinidir}/requirements_test.txt
+    django-22: Django>=2.2
+    -r {toxinidir}/requirements_test.txt
 basepython =
     py37: python3.7
     py36: python3.6