Vision and Opportunities

The vision of OZKi started with the idea of wanting to build a very effective privacy-protecting software component for traditional web services. To this end, a new breakthrough technology called Verifiable Computation, more popularly known as Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP), can be used to realize such a goal.

The challenge here is while ZKP has been used widely in the blockchain world for privacy coins such as ZCash, Monero, etc., and for Ethereum L2 scaling solutions, the use of ZKP has so far pretty much remained within the blockchain or Web3 applications and ecosystems. We have not seen any ZKP-based developer's tool for building general purpose privacy protecting modules for the traditional Web2 applications. In addition, most of the Web2 applications do not use blockchain, and this in general makes the ZKP knowledge and experience less exposed to the web developers.

So there is a lack of good developer tools to combat the PII leak problems, and the lack of ZKP exposures to the mainstream developers, but therein lies the opportunity for OZKi.