SNARK CHOCOLATE is back! 🍫

with Aleo: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts

This week, we sat down with Howard Wu (@1HowardWu), cofounder @AleoHQ and CEO @ProvableHQ, to dive deep into building decentralized, privacy-preserving applications

✅ $Aleo’s privacy-first Layer 1—designed for private smart contracts by default, overcoming Ethereum’s transparency limitations

✅ Developer tools & ecosystem—the Leo programming language, SDKs, and privacy-preserving wallets for seamless ZK integration

✅ Trade-offs in private blockchains—balancing speed, usability, and compliance while maintaining security

✅ ZK for compliance—using view keys and selective disclosure for regulatory-friendly privacy solutions

✅ Ecosystem growth & applications—ZK-powered DeFi (ZeFi), private identity verification, confidential transactions, and hidden-state gaming

✅ AI & zkML—provable AI agents, decentralized inference, and privacy-preserving machine learning on-chain

✅ Hybrid consensus design—combining PoW incentives with PoS mechanisms for long-term sustainability

✅ Future roadmap—hardware acceleration for ZK proofs, governance evolution, and privacy solutions beyond blockchain

🎧 Listen now:
🔽 Spotify (2nd post)
⏬ Apple Podcasts (3rd post)