ZK is a key tech in todays world! It changes the way you control your own data using cryptography instead of trusting companies (something that happens in Web2) to protect it. Ethereum is also building this directly into the system. Vitalik wants to replace the EVM with RISC-V to make privacy tech work 100x faster. See we all want basic financial privacy... > Privacy apps are already handling over $10B in transactions in 2024 (ZK is scaling fast I'm expecting it to be somewhere around $30-40B+ in 2025) > Some let you transfer money for under a penny in fees while keeping it private Here are a few protocols which are worth studying imo👇 @Zcash: OG zk-SNARK pioneer for optional shielded txns which is ideal for compliant privacy in payments @SuccinctLabs: Universal ZK prover network which allows devs to build without proof expertise @cysic_xyz: ZK proving network using GPUs/ASICS for hardware accelerated proofs (turns compute into yield assets) @brevis_zk: ZK coprocessor for offchain compute on historical data (Integrates with Uniswap, MetaMask, Frax for scalable DeFi) @ArciumHQ: A network for confidential computing on Solana, using Multi-Party eXecution Environments (MXEs) to process encrypted data in parallel across node clusters @encifherio: A privacy focused app for sending & swapping tokens on Solana with ZKPs Take this piece as an informational update & not an investment thesis.