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Just started a company in the zkTLS space. Am super bullish on alot of use cases.

The most romantic of which are vampire attacks. My definition of a VA doesn’t require a token incentive, can just be a better product for users.

Will add a few companies I think are ripe for a VA in comments.

@eddy how familiar are you with zkTLS?

I’ve been obsessed for many years. I view it as a complete game changer.

Right now I can derive a ZKP from a year of bank transactions that says balance went up by at least 2k/mnth. 

Also the data can be trusted to have originated from say api.chase.com

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

http://opacity.network

I think zk tls and email are different.

My plan is to make use of zkVMs to transform different APIs to a standard output.

A lot of the arguments for zkEmail against zkTLS is because of the collusion problem in MPC-TLS.

I thought it was impossible to solve, but randomly stumbled into an elegant solution (no TEE).

http://tlsnotary.org

Great project all investors should take a look at. Works perfectly except the user and notary can collude to generate arbitrary proofs.

That’s the part I was able to solve. Quit my job the same day I thought of it.

> bank can decide to change schemes

It just hit me AlignedLayer can really help with this. Since we tradeoff cryptographic security for cryptoeconomic, it should be much easier to adjust to changes in api surfaces.

Pretty familiar! I remember seeing Aayush and Sampriti demo ZK email in summer 2022, have been following zkp2p, etc.

I have some concerns about relying on single points of failure (ex: bank can decide to change schemes or stop signing) but agree that it's extremely powerful and interesting.