Opacity
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Opacity's Verified Data Network (VDN) leverages zkTLS, MPC, and economic security from @EigenLayer to privately share data across web2 and web3. @opacitynetwork on X
Here’s a meme that describes how I see this debate.
The verifiability thesis encompasses both views
The verifiability thesis encompasses both views
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ted (not lasso)
@ted·5 hours ago
i agree with @kyle that crypto is financial infra, and it is a big miss if we assume financial = speculation OR financial =/= culture.
the most popular consumer apps are both social and financial:
- flip, whatnot, tiktok: social commerce platforms
- roblox, pokemon go, clash of clans: in-app purchases for virtual goods
- gas, sendit, ngl: premium features for fun, social boosts
- youtube, twitch: tipping, subscriptions, channel memberships
all of these apps integrate financial features to monetize (to survive and grow) without turning the user experience into a casino.
contrast that with apps where speculation is the core experience: draftkings, online poker, sweepstakes casinos, etc.
in those, winning or losing money is the product. different design choice, different user experience.
financial infra can power commerce, entertainment, creativity, connection outside of pure speculation.
how we communicate and frame the financial part is important, especially when it comes to the purpose of an app.
the most popular consumer apps are both social and financial:
- flip, whatnot, tiktok: social commerce platforms
- roblox, pokemon go, clash of clans: in-app purchases for virtual goods
- gas, sendit, ngl: premium features for fun, social boosts
- youtube, twitch: tipping, subscriptions, channel memberships
all of these apps integrate financial features to monetize (to survive and grow) without turning the user experience into a casino.
contrast that with apps where speculation is the core experience: draftkings, online poker, sweepstakes casinos, etc.
in those, winning or losing money is the product. different design choice, different user experience.
financial infra can power commerce, entertainment, creativity, connection outside of pure speculation.
how we communicate and frame the financial part is important, especially when it comes to the purpose of an app.
Proof of human is a bad way to think about the fundamental problem
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth·12 hours ago
The irony is proof of human is way less valuable in web3 vs. web2.
In web2, you monetize via ads. At least right now, AIs (i.e. bots) aren't influenced by ads.
In web3, you monetize via transactions. AIs can do transactions. And as a developer, if you're monetizing via transactions, in most cases you don't care if the transaction is from a human or from an AI. You just care that it happened.
In web2, you monetize via ads. At least right now, AIs (i.e. bots) aren't influenced by ads.
In web3, you monetize via transactions. AIs can do transactions. And as a developer, if you're monetizing via transactions, in most cases you don't care if the transaction is from a human or from an AI. You just care that it happened.
zkTLS idea: internal leaderboard for interacting with company accounts on social media. Verify reposts, comments and likes from employees to earn tshirts and vacation days without doxxing personal accounts
Our new marketing person isn’t having my shenanigans
https://x.com/sophiademolay/status/1919129947106369819?s=46
https://x.com/sophiademolay/status/1919129947106369819?s=46
The accurate way to frame this is Dan came to our office out of respect since he was in town.
Felt really good coming back to Farcon having beat Dan to PMF with some actual useful shit being built.
iykyk
iykyk
One thing I love seeing is investors with strong conviction on a specific thesis.
Luc’s been on the Farconomy thesis long before some founders raised in this space.
Bullish af, excited to see what you accomplish 🫡
Luc’s been on the Farconomy thesis long before some founders raised in this space.
Bullish af, excited to see what you accomplish 🫡
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luc
@luc·6 days ago
personal news: we at @re7 raised a first-check fund focused on backing crypto social startups.
we already made several investments in the ecosystem (to be announced soon)
more info in the block article
https://www.theblock.co/post/352562/re7-capital-socialfi-fund-crypto
we already made several investments in the ecosystem (to be announced soon)
more info in the block article
https://www.theblock.co/post/352562/re7-capital-socialfi-fund-crypto
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Rob
@rsarrow·14:03 29/04/2025
Mr. Fink 🤝 zkTLS
soon ™️
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
soon ™️
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
"If we're serious about building an efficient and accessible financial system, championing tokenization alone won't suffice. We must solve digital verification, too.”
- Larry Fink CEO of BlackRock
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
- Larry Fink CEO of BlackRock
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
@dawufi we need some Guju marketing for me
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androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth·21:58 26/04/2025
@eulerlagrange.eth when are you going to predatory price zkTLS API calls and corner the market?
https://x.com/geniusbusiness_/status/1916088432889417984?s=46
https://x.com/geniusbusiness_/status/1916088432889417984?s=46
Closest I’ll get to Dan bull posting zkTLS
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth·19:35 24/04/2025
👀
Verifiable finance covenants
Verifiable finance covenants
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Tarun Chitra
@pinged·18:06 22/04/2025
At the end of the day, probably much like you, I got into the space via the idea of being able to provide humans with sovereign property rights that algorithms are forced to respect in a way that is expensive for groups of humans to manipulate. I think at that time, the vision of an authoritarian government being the enemy seems more pertinent; but now it certainly is more likely a machine that you need to protect your sovereignty against
Another thing is that I believe is that finance is made better with verifiable, algorithmic covenants — and the only place pushing that forward is crypto. I believe in the following axiom:
Anything that can have a market will (eventually) have a decentralized market
And that's one thing the AI can't take away from us!
Another thing is that I believe is that finance is made better with verifiable, algorithmic covenants — and the only place pushing that forward is crypto. I believe in the following axiom:
Anything that can have a market will (eventually) have a decentralized market
And that's one thing the AI can't take away from us!
Alok @dawufi thinks restaurant reviews with proof of ethnicity would be useful.
I don’t want to be the guy that made race verifiable on the internet.
I don’t want to be the guy that made race verifiable on the internet.
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Alok Vasudev
@alok·16:36 04/06/2024
a challenge with review platforms is the 1/9/90 issue. no one has figured out how to unlock signal from the 90 well.
🫡
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kevin mfer 🎩
@kevinmfer·17:30 18/04/2025
channels + tools built around it for rewarding the community way better than whop imo
i believe zkTLS will accelerate this aswell with authentication
long farcaster with confidence
i believe zkTLS will accelerate this aswell with authentication
long farcaster with confidence
zkTLS idea: plug in all the finance shit and have chatGPT do my fkn taxes for me
thanks
and pls hurry, i can't take another year of this bullshit
thanks
and pls hurry, i can't take another year of this bullshit
@gregfromstl what if i told you Opacity is helping Madison square garden get advances on their ticket sales.
To build a web3 ticketmaster 😎
https://x.com/kydnimale/status/1912721341507121493?s=46
See tweet 👇
To build a web3 ticketmaster 😎
https://x.com/kydnimale/status/1912721341507121493?s=46
See tweet 👇
I’ve been going off on Daisy for a year fam hahahaha
https://x.com/euler__lagrange/status/1902124310338154968?s=46
https://x.com/euler__lagrange/status/1902124310338154968?s=46
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greg
@gregfromstl·02:23 17/04/2025
Wtf is daisy
x.com
Meanwhile Daisy is out here making small creators > $2.5k/month by monetizing their distribution.
But no one on CT will care unless we throw an AI agent in there
But no one on CT will care unless we throw an AI agent in there
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ted (not lasso)
@ted·21:28 16/04/2025
"are there any zoomers who dislike content coins?"
my zoomer friends:
my zoomer friends:
Thanks for the h/t @dabit3. It’s true, blockchains are by themselves useful. This explains why even though so much VC funding is deployed we have yet to break out of our own industry in a meaningful way.
I wanted to point out a part of Chris Dixon’s recent article I think is incorrect. The lack of utility of Defi is better explained by the fundamental limitations of blockchains vs regulatory bottlenecks.
We already have products like Earnifi (linked below) gaining adoption offering stablecoin alternatives to the predatory payday lending industry. This was unlocked by new regulations but zkTLS. The ability for users to port their own data from APIs like Gusto/Workday.
Blockchains by themselves are limited in utility by verifiability of the world. This thesis has been validated.
https://x.com/dabit3/status/1911819037333430724?s=46
I wanted to point out a part of Chris Dixon’s recent article I think is incorrect. The lack of utility of Defi is better explained by the fundamental limitations of blockchains vs regulatory bottlenecks.
We already have products like Earnifi (linked below) gaining adoption offering stablecoin alternatives to the predatory payday lending industry. This was unlocked by new regulations but zkTLS. The ability for users to port their own data from APIs like Gusto/Workday.
Blockchains by themselves are limited in utility by verifiability of the world. This thesis has been validated.
https://x.com/dabit3/status/1911819037333430724?s=46
We’re working with Amino chain who wants people’s health records from hospitals/doctors.
Epic chart is one of the services.
We could do a charity drive where 100% of the money goes to kids with cancer.
Another banger zkTLS unlock @ted
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1910833349817479371?s=46
Epic chart is one of the services.
We could do a charity drive where 100% of the money goes to kids with cancer.
Another banger zkTLS unlock @ted
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1910833349817479371?s=46
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Kunal | Showdown.win
@kunalshowdown·18:21 11/04/2025
Hello Farcaster! Im Kunal, the founder and CEO at Showdown.win! I used to play CS2 and FIFA at a semi pro level until I realised my skills got no rewards to show for years of gaming. So, I decided to build a platform where skill is the only currency and pay outs are instant!
Fun fact about me: I produce music/DJ
Fun fact about me: I produce music/DJ
How much you wanna bet Opacity will make more progress for privacy than the EU govt
https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/1909924693819461993?s=46
https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/1909924693819461993?s=46
I remember last year telling everyone at Farcon ( @dwr.eth, @alok, etc) zkTLS was gonna be a transformative tech in crypto.
Being reasonable everyone brushed it off and were skeptical.
Now my entire CT feed is people bull posting zkTLS.
I want everyone to know, i knew this would happen.
https://youtu.be/sgIOSLWAcTU?si=MVCveqkkBpBTW68Y
Being reasonable everyone brushed it off and were skeptical.
Now my entire CT feed is people bull posting zkTLS.
I want everyone to know, i knew this would happen.
https://youtu.be/sgIOSLWAcTU?si=MVCveqkkBpBTW68Y
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TongueScraperLagrange
@eulerlagrange.eth·18:03 29/09/2024
The rules that apply to everyone else, don’t apply to me
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be
🫡
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Karthik Senthil
@karthiksenthil·23:16 07/04/2025
The next big "L1" opportunity isn't higher TPS or lower fees for smart contract devs.
It's making crypto rails accessible to a new, emerging set of builders: AI app / agent devs.
AI devs will build on crypto rails for two reasons:
1. Create product differentiation and lock-in by incentivizing users via tokens to contribute to improving model performance
2. Power increasingly autonomous (and eventually sovereign) agents who can capitalize themselves via internet capital markets, make payments, acquire compute, etc.
It's making crypto rails accessible to a new, emerging set of builders: AI app / agent devs.
AI devs will build on crypto rails for two reasons:
1. Create product differentiation and lock-in by incentivizing users via tokens to contribute to improving model performance
2. Power increasingly autonomous (and eventually sovereign) agents who can capitalize themselves via internet capital markets, make payments, acquire compute, etc.
Finally wrote up this idea I had for a new narrative in crypto. The idea of Frames is actually thesis aligned funny enough.
https://x.com/Euler__Lagrange/status/1908349463883559072
https://x.com/Euler__Lagrange/status/1908349463883559072
Fun hackathon project:
Put up a bounty on-chain for what image to draw on the github activity chart.
If you zkTLS prove you got the github api to render it you can claim.
Put up a bounty on-chain for what image to draw on the github activity chart.
If you zkTLS prove you got the github api to render it you can claim.
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Mason Hall
@mason·16:11 04/04/2025
The Github contribution graph but it's Conway's Game of Life. I had to do it.
How Opacity x Digg happened solidified why i’m so bullish Farcaster. Here’s the story.
@yb wrote this banger article on zkTLS and Opacity last year. Def subscribe to him.
Kevin Rose came across it and randomly DMd me on Warpcast and Twitter. We quickly hopped on a call and he conveyed excitement about zkTLS and that he could use it.
I sent a slack invite and Lo and Behold Digg joined on the other end. Will post an update when I can share more details 😉.
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@yb, a farcaster native, wrote an article that landed me a deal of a lifetime. Cherry ontop, i had no idea who Krose was or the history of Digg 😂.
Thanks @yb for your great writing
Thanks @v and @dwr.eth for making a network where i could shit post my way to PMF 🫡
https://terminallyonchain.xyz/zktls
@yb wrote this banger article on zkTLS and Opacity last year. Def subscribe to him.
Kevin Rose came across it and randomly DMd me on Warpcast and Twitter. We quickly hopped on a call and he conveyed excitement about zkTLS and that he could use it.
I sent a slack invite and Lo and Behold Digg joined on the other end. Will post an update when I can share more details 😉.
——-
@yb, a farcaster native, wrote an article that landed me a deal of a lifetime. Cherry ontop, i had no idea who Krose was or the history of Digg 😂.
Thanks @yb for your great writing
Thanks @v and @dwr.eth for making a network where i could shit post my way to PMF 🫡
https://terminallyonchain.xyz/zktls
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TongueScraperLagrange
@eulerlagrange.eth·14:16 02/04/2025
Many consumer crypto protocols are like designing a hammer based on what nail manufacturers think people need, rather than understanding the pain points users experience.
Instead of solutions that serve infrastructures’ needs, focus on solving real problems users face. The best compass isn't speculation—it's watching real people navigate real challenges.
In practice, it’s very difficult to assess these things from first principles. You actually have to hypothesis test with users for validation.
Instead of solutions that serve infrastructures’ needs, focus on solving real problems users face. The best compass isn't speculation—it's watching real people navigate real challenges.
In practice, it’s very difficult to assess these things from first principles. You actually have to hypothesis test with users for validation.
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth·19:57 29/03/2025
I think the scarce resource is the actual use cases and not the users
I have a wild idea
--i swear to god this zkTLS idea is a unicorn--
Yelp restaurant reviews filter/sortable by 23andMe results
You want to claim something is thai spicy? You better have some thai in you
You want to claim the kimchi tastes like your mom made? mfer you better put up that DNA that shows at least 50% korean
Ragu almost as good as the recipe passed down in your family for generations? put up or shut up with ur whole italia family tree
Yelp restaurant reviews filter/sortable by 23andMe results
You want to claim something is thai spicy? You better have some thai in you
You want to claim the kimchi tastes like your mom made? mfer you better put up that DNA that shows at least 50% korean
Ragu almost as good as the recipe passed down in your family for generations? put up or shut up with ur whole italia family tree
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Dave Shake
@daveshake·20:33 25/03/2025
EW + ZK TLS = value^2
I’ve been tinkering with consumer crypto for the past few months in an attempt to build something that engages and delights non-crypto people with the intent of secretly getting them on crypto rails.
Long story short, an embedded wallet and ZK TLS on top of a great product will get us there.
Embedded wallets = user accrues real-world value.
ZK TLS = user can bring web 2 value to web3 privately.
EW + ZK TLS = value^2
I’ve been tinkering with consumer crypto for the past few months in an attempt to build something that engages and delights non-crypto people with the intent of secretly getting them on crypto rails.
Long story short, an embedded wallet and ZK TLS on top of a great product will get us there.
Embedded wallets = user accrues real-world value.
ZK TLS = user can bring web 2 value to web3 privately.
EW + ZK TLS = value^2
