web3pm

We are entering a new era. 

Early zkTLS implementations have a lot of compromises across trust, UX, speed, and developer experience. 

But they’re finally far enough along where we can use them to accelerate our product while tolerating the trade offs (which will improve)

This wasn’t true ~60 days ago. 

I say this not as a recent convert to the zkTLS bandwagon (many rn) but after waiting 2 years for this to arrive. 

We built icebreaker around the thesis that data will become open, powered by zkTLS and similarly disruptive technologies. 

However, it will take a lot longer for apps to manifest because very few are building interoperable applications on top of this data. Aside from us, web2 will be the bigger early adopter of this tech because there are very clear value props around attacking competitors.

Would love to see more VC investment in other *applications* (incl. competitors) building using interoperable zkTLS data.

Identity mixologist

Co-founder at @icebreaker

icbk.me/web3pm.fc

This is interesting, hadn’t thought of the web2 angle.

I thought about data sharing in this capacity when federated learning first came out, and it was really hard to get competitors to collaborate on models.

I think selling data directly fixes this.