From protecting sensitive data to enabling real-world apps in DeFi, gaming, and beyond, zkVerify is proving that ZK is ready for prime time.

Great to see @HorizenLabs CEO @robviglione dive into it with @DefiantNews


This week, we chatted with @robviglione, CEO of @HorizenLabs, about the game-changing power of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) and how they can be used for:

✅ Protecting medical records & financial history
✅ Bridging TradFi & DeFi
✅ Empowering consumers through data ownership

Are our institutions ready for the shift? 👀

00:00 Defiant Intro
00:07 Podcast Teaser
00:52 Hero Quote
00:59 Introduction to Rob Viglione
01:34 The beauty of ZKPs
02:40 How to balance transparency and privacy onchain
04:00 Why it’s so easy to overshare data
04:50 Living in an age of constant data leaks
06:34 The concept of wealth is fundamentally different now
07:33 Google adopts ZKP to verify age
09:00 A world of a trillion proofs
09:30 How can Web3 handle growing volumes of proofs?
10:09 Will Web2 relinquish their chokehold on our data?
11:52 Monetizing data as an incentive to online privacy
12:45 New opportunities for earning a living by monetizing your data
14:14 The intersection of crypto and AI
16:17 ZKPs and data protection
18:00 ZKPs and AI in medical records and financial history
20:18 How can ZKPs act as a safeguard against misuse in AI
22:15 Hackers and scammers are a certainty; how do we fight them?
22:36 Cryptography, ZKPs, and privacy-centric AI systems?
25:13 Why is privacy a human right?
26:25 Institutions, privacy, and Web3
26:45 Institutions coming onchain
28:30 Better communicating privacy as a human right in the context of Web3
30:30 Will ZKPs change the way people interact with the internet?
32:11 Marketing in the age of AI
33:24 ZKPs and KYC
35:40 Why ZKPs are bad for bad actors
37:38 Government regulation vs. Web3 companies regulating the industry themselves
39:00 It doesn’t make sense for politicians to be anti-crypto anymore
41:53 Can ZKPs redefine compliance and how it’s enforced?
43:13 How can ZKP tech support institutional privacy and consumer data?
44:45 Tradfi onchain as a stepping stone to DeFi
46:39 Lightning round! Favorite existing use case for ZKP
46:54 Lightning round! Favorite potential use case for ZKP
48:04 Lightning round! Best advice for keeping your data safe online
48:49 Closing statements and where to follow Rob

Watch here: https://t.co/73iYVX81Hq