Tagged: Zero Knowledge Proofs

December 17, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

This week, Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, General Counsel of StarkWare, participated in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force Roundtable addressing privacy and financial surveillance. This is a hot topic today, especially with the advent of blockchain-powered financial services. While many blockchains allow anyone to… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 9:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Could zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs prevent data breaches? “Centralized servers that stockpile sensitive personal data will always remain prime targets for attackers – whether the breach comes through technical exploits or social engineering. Incidents like the Discord leak make it clear that this model is unsustainable…. Read More

December 9, 2024 @ 11:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gevulot, a zero-knowledge (ZK) firm building the ZkCloud, this week announced the launch of Firestarter, its first production-ready, universal ZK proving network. Designed to simplify and accelerate proof generation, Gevolut said Firestarter reduces costs by more than 95% compared to current solutions while improving ZK,… Read More

July 15, 2024 @ 4:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Mina Foundation, a public benefit corporation servicing zero-knowledge (ZK) blockchain Mina Protocol, has appointed deep-tech lawyer and senior legal executive Daniel Schoenberger as its general counsel, effective immediately. Schoenberger brings more than two decades of legal and policy experience from across Web2 enterprise, Web3, and education. He joins… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 4:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nexus Laboratories, a zero-knowledge cryptography company, has secured $25 million in Series A financing co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pantera Capital. The round included participation from Dragonfly Capital, Faction Ventures, and Blockchain Builders Fund. The funds will help accelerate the company’s go-to-market efforts and… Read More

May 27, 2024 @ 10:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Lita announced the alpha release of its Valida zkVM and Valida C Compiler Toolchain, enabling faster and more efficient zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) generation. The Valida C Compiler Toolchain comprises the Valida C Compiler, enabling C programs to be converted to Valida-compatible code; and… Read More

June 8, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitso, the crypto-powered financial services company in Latin America, today made public the progress of its “Proof that Matters” with which it “shows its solvency with cryptographic technology in all Bitcoin and Ether assets held on its platform, through the Zero-Knowledge Proof developed by Proven… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jens Groth explains that zero-knowledge proofs “allow you to prove a statement is true without revealing anything else but the fact the statement is true.” He also pulls out a deck of cards “to illustrate what he means by this.” He adds: “Let’s say I… Read More

August 8, 2022 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Kåre Kjelstrøm, Chief Technology Officer at layer-1 blockchain company Concordium. Kåre, who has an MS in Computer Science from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, is leading the development of Concordium’s blockchain platform – which embeds encrypted ID into on-chain transactions in… Read More

April 6, 2022 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, there was a vote at the European Parliament on crypto-assets that may have a dramatic impact on the digital asset industry. Members of European Parliament (MEPs) voted that, effectively, all crypto transfers must be tracked with buyer and seller information and made available… Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the VC and innovation incubator of Binance, made an investment in Manta Network, the Web3 privacy protocol focused on privatizing crypto-assets. Manta Network’s layer-1 network design “leverages zero-knowledge proofs to privatize crypto assets.” Built with the Substrate framework, Manta’s privacy tech interoperates with… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 5:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pledge Finance, the platform for long-term, fixed-rate cryptocurrency-based loans, is pleased to confirm a partnership with zkLink, a provider of secure cross-chain token swaps “powered by zero-knowledge proofs.” As mentioned in an update shared with CI, the partnership will allow Pledge to “integrate with more… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash, a cryptocurrency focused on privacy and anonymity, is currently available to trade on Okcoin – “with some of the lowest fees around.” Customers are able to “deposit, withdraw, and trade ZEC against USD on Okcoin.” All Okcoin clients may perform transactions with Zcash including… Read More

December 9, 2021 @ 5:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, Ethereum’s most used scaling platform, today announced a $400 million deal with zero-knowledge (ZK) startup Mir as part of the next step in scaling Ethereum and bringing millions of users to Web 3. With this acquisition, Polygon said it gains access to the world’s… Read More

November 8, 2021 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Matter Labs, a company looking to provide an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling protocol, has raised $50 million in new funding. The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Additional investors included Placeholder, Dragonfly and 1kx. Matter Labs said that a second financing was closed with… Read More

July 4, 2021 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm Ernst & Young (EY) has contributed a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) layer-2 protocol into the public domain in order to help with addressing rising transaction costs on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain network, the world’s largest smart contract platform. The protocol has been… Read More

May 29, 2021 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken says it’s pleased to confirm that deposits and withdrawals for Mina (MINA) are “now open” as of Friday (May 28, 2021). Kraken noted in a blog post that trading is scheduled to launch on June 1, 2021 at “approximately 00:00 UTC.”… Read More

May 7, 2021 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Li Jun, Founder of Ontology, recently commented on how Self Sovereign Identity solutions will reshape or transform how we share data via the Internet. Jun notes that each time you get on the internet, you’re adding your digital identity and are also creating a “virtual… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Loopring, which allows anyone to create “high-throughput,” non-custodial, orderbook-based exchanges on Ethereum by leveraging Zero-Knowledge Proofs or ZKPs (for financial privacy), have introduced a beta version of the Loopring Wallet – which is notably the first Ethereum smart wallet with built-in zkRollup… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and other cryptographic techniques for enhancing privacy on blockchain networks are still in their early stages of development, according to the central bank of Canada. The reserve bank said that ZKPs may not be integrated into central bank digital currencies (CBDC) just… Read More