Introducing Midnight
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Midnight presents a concrete architecture that keeps sensitive data on-device and publishes only ZK proofs to smart contracts, claiming this send proofs not data model preserves privacy while remaining auditable. It uses client-side proof generation, selective disclosure on the client side, programmable shielding, and ZK smart contracts to hide metadata and enable compliance. The pitch shows how this reduces exposure for enterprises, fits alongside MPC and homomorphic options, and positions ZK as a mass-adoption primitive for web3.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Why zero knowledge matters
- 3:57Data sharing problems in web2 and web3
- 7:50Public on-chain data fails mass adoption
- 10:39Zero knowledge enables programmable privacy
- 13:45Privacy-preserving decentralized apps
- 15:30Selective disclosure beats transparency
- 16:53Learn more about Midnight
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