When I came across the details of this divorce case, I really felt a surge of anger for this man. Anyone who has experienced marital disputes understands this feeling of being utterly powerless.
The beginning and end of the matter are simple yet heart-wrenching, filled with the most realistic helplessness in marriage. A man could no longer endure his wife's infidelity and filed for divorce. In court, the wife admitted to her infidelity but downplayed it, arguing that it was just 'occasional' and did not reach the point of a breakdown in their relationship. Even more outrageous, she directly told the man: if you insist on getting a divorce, you must give me half of the marital property; otherwise, I will just hang on to this marriage and not leave.
Just this one sentence has pushed the man into a dilemma. If he leaves, he must give up half of his hard-earned savings to the person who betrayed the marriage; if he stays, he is trapped in this marriage that exists in name only, suffering day after day.
Many people online criticize the woman for being shameless, but after the criticism, we should see the most heartbreaking truth in this matter: we always think that the wronged party in a marriage will pay a price, but in reality, too many people can brazenly divide your property even after being caught in infidelity. What is even more frustrating is that in a divorce lawsuit, to prove the other party's wrongdoing, you have to expose your private chat records, personal itinerary, and even the most unspeakable private details in court. Even if you win the lawsuit in the end, you are still stripped of a layer of skin, your privacy is scrutinized repeatedly, and you cannot even maintain basic dignity.
Essentially, the security of property and bottom line rules in our marriages has never had a rigid safety net; it relies entirely on the other party's conscience and moral constraints. However, once the other party tears off the facade and has no bottom line, you have almost no low-cost means to safeguard your rights other than wasting time on lawsuits and sacrificing your privacy and dignity.
It is also because I have seen too much helplessness in marriages that I conducted in-depth research on the Midnight Network project, only to discover that its most revolutionary value is not the technical gimmicks in the crypto circle, but the use of ZK-SNARKs zero-knowledge proof technology, which has been verified for over ten years globally, to fundamentally resolve the core deadlock of 'rules without a safety net, evidence loss of privacy, and no avenues for rights protection' in marriage. It can provide you with the most rigid and unshakable rights protection in marriage without compromising your data protection or ownership, which is what we ordinary people need the most.
First, let me clarify the accurate information publicly disclosed by officials, without exaggeration. Midnight Network is the world's first Layer 1 public chain focusing on 'compliance and privacy balance,' fully incubated by the core development team IOHK of the leading global public chain Cardano. Its core technological foundation is zero-knowledge (ZK) proof technology, and the most significant industry breakthrough is the creation of a unique programmable privacy smart contract engine that turns your bottom line and rules in marriage from 'the other party's verbal commitment' into rigid constraints that will never default.
Firstly, its programmable privacy smart contracts fundamentally eliminate the possibility of 'the wronged party unscrupulously dividing property.'
Many people have reservations about prenuptial agreements and property arrangements during marriage, feeling it damages feelings. However, traditional written agreements, even if signed, can still be disregarded by the other party, leading to a long litigation process. In the Midnight Network system, you and your partner can clearly write the ownership of property before and after marriage, the division of rights and responsibilities in marriage, and the rules for dividing property for the wronged party into the on-chain smart contract. For example, it can be explicitly stated that infidelity during marriage constitutes a serious wrongdoing, and the wronged party voluntarily waives part or all of the rights to divide the couple's joint property.
After both parties complete the digital signature through a decentralized DID identity, the contract will be permanently recorded on the blockchain, immutable and unilaterally revocable. All rules are automatically executed by code, and no one can intervene or go back on their word. Just like the situation in this event, as long as the contract has clear agreements, even if the woman admits to infidelity, she cannot unscrupulously demand half of the property. The code will strictly execute according to the agreement, and the man no longer has to be manipulated by the other party's claims of 'not separating property,' nor be trapped in a marriage that exists in name only.
More crucially, its zero-knowledge proof technology perfectly unravels the dilemma of 'having to sacrifice privacy to provide evidence.'
The core magic of zero-knowledge proof lies in the fact that I can 100% prove the authenticity of something to you without disclosing any privacy data I do not want to make public. In the context of marital disputes, this means you need to prove the other party's wrongdoing during the marriage to judicial authorities without exposing sensitive private data such as chat records, videos, and travel trajectories. Just generating a zero-knowledge proof can 100% confirm the other party's wrongdoing without revealing any specific private details.
You have legally and effectively provided evidence while firmly safeguarding your privacy and dignity, without having to repeatedly expose your scars to strangers for the sake of a divorce lawsuit, enduring repeated secondary harm.
At the same time, its decentralized DID identity and encrypted evidence system have completely solved the pain points of 'difficult evidence collection and easy destruction of evidence' in marital disputes. Your communication records with the other party, related certificates, and materials related to the facts of wrongdoing can all be recorded on-chain through asymmetric encryption. Once on-chain, a permanent, immutable, and indestructible hash value will be generated, fully complying with the standards for recognizing judicial electronic evidence. Even if the other party deletes all chat records and destroys physical evidence, the on-chain evidence remains valid forever. When protecting your rights, you do not need to make your private matters and privacy known to everyone; just submitting the corresponding on-chain hash value can complete legal evidence collection, preserving dignity while efficiently safeguarding your legal rights.
What is most valuable is that from the very first day of its inception, the core principle of Midnight Network has been the balance between compliance and privacy, rather than boundless anonymity. All its technical architecture is fully adapted to the regulatory requirements of major global judicial jurisdictions, allowing you to firmly safeguard your privacy and data ownership while also completing compliant judicial verification when necessary, and it is not a gray tool that exists outside of rules.
Looking back at this divorce event, we always think that marriage relies on love and conscience, but what can truly provide you with a safety net is always the immutable rules and the initiative you hold in your hands. What Midnight Network provides us is never a shackle that constrains feelings, but allows us to pursue genuine hearts without reservation while firmly safeguarding our property, privacy, and dignity when feelings fade. No need to gamble on the other party's conscience, no need to sacrifice your entire life for a divorce; there is immutable code to safeguard your bottom line.