Privacy projectPrivacy Pools: Compliant privacy pool. Technology: zero-knowledge proofs.
Privacy Pools implements one of the most consequential ideas in the field: association-set proofs, from a paper co-authored by Vitalik Buterin. They let an honest user prove their deposit belongs to a set that excludes illicit funds without revealing which deposit is theirs. It is the clearest answer anyone has offered to the question of how a shielded pool stays compliant without a backdoor, it carries Ethereum Foundation integration, and a year in it holds about six million dollars across some 1,500 users. Membership of the association set is currently determined by one screening provider, which can also revoke it, so that provider sits in the trust model alongside the cryptography.
Key facts
- Entry type
- Privacy project
- Category
- Compliant privacy pool
- Technology
- Zero-knowledge proofs (ZK)
- Website
- privacypools.com
What is zero-knowledge proofs?
One party proves a statement about hidden data is true without revealing the data the statement is about.
How it compares with the other approaches on latency, trust assumptions and fit is set out, with sources, in the technology taxonomy.
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