Listened to the most recent @zeroknowledgefm "Is ZK dead? Or has it just begun?" Deep research takes time. The funders were early to the vintage. Now that vintage is becoming real world products. Will make @tarunchitra bullish on ZK again 😆 and ZKML. 'Automated reasoning' turns natural language into formal logic and can be used as AI guardrails that can't be bypassed or ignored. Will CC when our paper drops mid-month🤞.

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A zero-knowledge proof is an interactive process. That makes it strikingly different from ordinary mathematical proofs, which can be written down in a textbook.

Did you know that zero-knowledge proofs have fascinating applications outside of blockchain? 🤔 Let's go over some: ☢️Imagine two countries sit down to dismantle a nuclear warhead. Each needs to confirm the other is destroying a real one rather than a decoy. Neither will allow an inspection, because the design of the thing is the secret they're protecting. Princeton researchers published a protocol in Nature ( for exactly this. It confirms a warhead matches a known authentic template while revealing nothing whatsoever about what's inside it. And of course, there are many more examples past crypto: 🪪 Government ID Europe's digital identity wallet is rolling out with zero-knowledge techniques built in, so a check can confirm the one fact it needs about you without the verifier collecting everything else printed on the document. 📷 Journalism Confirming a published photograph came from a real camera, and was edited only in ways anyone can check, without the newsroom handing over the original file (that's what Brevis Vera does). 🤖 AI Confirming that the model which answered you is the one you paid for, and that it ran the way it claims. Early, and moving quickly. Underneath all of it sits the same problem. Somebody has to be convinced of one specific thing, and the evidence itself is the part that can't be handed over.

Three common misconceptions about zero-knowledge proofs: 1️⃣ "It's all about privacy." Privacy is just one use. The bigger one is verification: proving a computation was done correctly without anyone having to redo it. Most ZK running in production today is there to make results checkable at scale. 2️⃣ "It hides everything." You choose exactly what to reveal and what to hold back. Prove you're over 21 while showing nothing else, or prove a balance covers a loan without ever revealing the number. Selective, down to the detail. 3️⃣ "It's too slow to be real." That was true for years. Today a zero-knowledge proof of an entire Ethereum block finishes in seconds. The engineering finally caught up to math that's been around since the 1980s. We walk through all of this properly, from blockchain basics up to real-time proving, in our From 0 Knowledge to Zero Knowledge series. Start from part 1 👇

Where do zero-knowledge proofs sit in the long history of trust? 🤔 Every era has invented a way to trust a stranger without having to. 🕯️ The wax seal, so a letter couldn't be opened and resealed unnoticed. 📒 Double-entry bookkeeping, so the numbers had to reconcile or the lie showed. 🔍 The audit, so a company's claims could be checked by someone with no reason to flatter them. ✍️ The notary, so a signature actually meant the person signed. Every one of them works the same way. It hands you something you can check for yourself, instead of asking you to take someone's word. The zero-knowledge proof is the newest entry in that line, and the first one built for computation itself. A way to prove a calculation was done correctly, verifiable by anyone in an instant, with no redoing the work and no trusting whoever ran it. It's the same move humanity keeps reinventing, now aimed at the machines doing more and more of our thinking. That's the thread we pull at Brevis 🟠