At first i thought zero knowledge proofs were just a fancy way of saying "trust me" on chain but the more i looked at how @Dusk actually uses them the more it clicked for me.
A zk proof lets you show that something is true, you have enough funds, you meet a requirement, a transaction followed the rules, without revealing the actual numbers or identity behind it. The chain still checks the proof, the rule still gets enforced, nothing about the process gets skipped, it is just that the private inputs never have to be shown to the public to make that verification happen.
What i like about this is that trust and privacy stop being a tradeoff, you are not asking people to just believe you, the math is doing the proving.
That feels like the actual foundation real financial systems would need before they could seriously consider settling anything on chain.
Is proof without exposure the real unlock for on chain finance, or does something always end up getting revealed eventually?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
A zk proof lets you show that something is true, you have enough funds, you meet a requirement, a transaction followed the rules, without revealing the actual numbers or identity behind it. The chain still checks the proof, the rule still gets enforced, nothing about the process gets skipped, it is just that the private inputs never have to be shown to the public to make that verification happen.
What i like about this is that trust and privacy stop being a tradeoff, you are not asking people to just believe you, the math is doing the proving.
That feels like the actual foundation real financial systems would need before they could seriously consider settling anything on chain.
Is proof without exposure the real unlock for on chain finance, or does something always end up getting revealed eventually?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
