Opacity's Verified Data Network (VDN) leverages zkTLS, MPC, and economic security from @EigenLayer to privately share data across web2 and web3.

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We just launched our dev platform and announced our fundraise. The culmination of years of obsession, hard work, and a lot of shit posting on farcaster.

The die has been cast, only the beginning of a long journey fixing the internet.

https://x.com/OpacityNetwork/status/1846239543403688030

Our seed round is co-lead by @archetype  and Breyer capital, with participation from @a16zcrypto CSX and others.

Special thanks to @osprey  @androidsixteen.eth for being such great angels.

And to @ncitron.eth and @eddy for putting up with my relentless DMs!

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

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

We back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet. 
a16zcrypto.com/

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

Checking the chains @witness - icebreaker.xyz/osprey.fc

early stage crypto fund accelerating the programmable future

Excited for our newest partner at the intersection of gaming and crypto

Excited for our newest partner at the intersection of gaming and crypto 

https://medium.com/@ShowdownGaming/breaking-the-black-box-how-showdown-and-opacity-network-are-unlocking-the-financialization-of-419debefb34a

Mom, the Ethereum account mentioned me. Are you proud of me @vitalik.eth ?

Apps, product launches, acquisitions and more…

Here are 28 things the Ethereum ecosystem got done over the last few weeks.

0/ @Shopify announced support for stablecoins on @base across their platform, giving millions of businesses in 175+ countries access to Ethereum-powered

Mom, the Ethereum account mentioned me. Are you proud of me @vitalik.eth ?

https://x.com/ethereum/status/1939656679550820628?s=46

Dug in and broke down the privacy terms I'm increasingly seeing 👇

Multi-Party Computation (MPC) — Distributed computation that allows multiple groups to collectively compute something without revealing their own information.

➢ Think you and five friends want to find your average salary without revealing individual amounts. Each person splits their salary into six random shares and sends one to each person. Everyone performs math on the shares to compute the final average without learning individual salaries.

Building with MPC: Fireblocks (institutional custody), Arcium (private AI processing), Renegade (onchain dark pools)

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) — Allows data processing without decryption, meaning sensitive data remains encrypted when stored, transmitted, and analyzed.

➢ Like a locked safe with programmable gloves. You put private data inside, program instructions, send to someone else. They operate blindly following instructions without seeing what's inside, return correct results.

Building with FHE: Zama (FHE tooling), Fhenix (real-world applications), PrivaSea (encrypted ML)

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) — Secure hardware zones that store and process data in isolation, preventing the rest of the machine from accessing that data.

➢ Think iPhone biometrics. Face scans stored in secure chip zones, matching happens inside sealed hardware. Apps only get yes/no, never see actual biometric data.

Building with TEEs: Space Computer (satellite nodes), Oasis Protocol (confidential smart contracts), Phala Network (decentralized cloud)

zkTLS — Merges TLS with zero-knowledge proofs to keep information private yet verifiable, turning any Web2 platform data into a public API.

➢ Prove your bank balance for onchain loans without revealing exact amounts or transaction history. Generate ZKP of balance, submit to DeFi platforms for creditworthiness verification.

Building with zkTLS: ZKP2P (on/off ramps), EarniFi (privacy-preserving loans), DaisyPay (influencer payouts)

https://www.bankless.com/read/cryptos-privacy-tech-wave

Founder of /opacity here. Farcaster has known about zkTLS for way longer than CT.

Nitpick

> Requires oracle involvement, adding latency and trust.

This depends on the provider - not universally true.

I wouldn’t have started a company here without seeing a path to remove trust assumptions.

We use shared security in a network design that ensures secure proofs even with just one honest node.

How much you wanna bet he’s gonna pump on Daisy

Lmk if you want to be in this chat @kia.eth

Web2 runs on ads

Web3 runs on incentives

Incentives are just ads in disguise

With Opacity Multipass we are in a better position to launch an AI memory sync product than most people talking about it.

We just don’t think it makes sense to launch that out the gate. It will be a hard sell to apps with users to help you bootstrap AI memory.

I also refuse to play the game of playing for the hot narrative vs sound product gtm.

Go a banger demo for y'all today, dropping some alpha

It's zkTLS Demo Day! Come discuss what a verifiable internet unlocks with:

@Euler__Lagrange - @OpacityNetwork
@lawrencelimxyz - @henrylabs
@richardzliang - @zkp2p
@itsphilgeorge - @earnos_io
@bitvickyzh - @primus_labs
Ian Ettinger - @daisypayapp

RSVP: https://t.co/URgPR8BAuX https://t.co/oxIOGSZSkO

Go a banger demo for y'all today, dropping some alpha

https://x.com/thestudio_xyz/status/1937875371153826011

Im actually not kidding about zkTLS for apartment applications this Co-Op may be the end of me. @eulerlagrange do i need to build this myself.

Here’s the gtm for this.

Get a bunch of college kids to build an AI tool to apply to NYC apartments with fake data.

zkTLS incentivize submitting fake applications.

Show up with the painkiller.

Today, we’re excited to announce some of the participants from Showdown’s pre-seed round.

We’re honored to welcome:

@sreeramkannan (Founder, EigenLayer), @sandeepnailwal  (Co-Founder, Polygon), @nickwh8te  (Co-Founder, Celestia), @Euler__Lagrange (Co-Founder, Opacity Network), https://t.co/6TVJlA1sfr

https://x.com/showdown_gg/status/1937571429865906675?s=46

wufs

100%, we're in the "attract" phase, which is *always* followed by the "extract" phase once users are sufficiently locked in.

IMO the best strategy now is to use all the subsidized intelligence we can to build the tools we need to ensure we can never be locked in.

Use the access, abuse it, but don't grow dependent on it.

https://x.com/danconia_crypto/status/1936924189098963033?s=46

will add the letter below

looking back at our old investor letters from 2023 when we first invested in @OpacityNetwork, then known as Sovrn, after getting zktls-pilled by @Euler__Lagrange 

"any web2 marketplace whose primary moat is a reputation graph is a melting ice cube with no terminal value" https://t.co/hoOkey0doh

zkTLS basically makes everything on the internet an NFT (in a good way) 

and the world is nowhere near ready for it

thot leadership at /opacity --
host of vibe check podcast 
▶️ https://pods.media/vibe-check
❄️ icebreaker.xyz/dawufi

@dawufi has also volunteered to serve any jail time that the tech-data complex may conspire to frame me with.

Man i love my team