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🕵️ Introducing the building blocks of private, programmable #Web3 applications 🕵️: Aleo's zk primitives

Aleo’s mission is to enable developers to build truly private applications. Our approach is based on zero knowledge #cryptography (ZK in short). 1/8

aleo.org/post/zero-know…

👀 ZK allows parties on a #decentralized network to prove knowledge of some information without revealing the underlying facts that make it true. 2/8

The ability to prove knowledge without revealing it:

🔍 Enhances privacy
🔒 Increases security
⏩ Improves efficiency

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🏗️ In order to develop private applications, it’s critical to identify useful and unique primitives - building blocks - that users and developers can point to.

These primitives are to ZK what money legos are to #DeFi. 4/8

So what are Aleo’s zero knowledge primitives? 🔩

🛡️ Shielded identities: Protect the private information of a given person or entity
🤝 Shielded transactions: Private interactions with another person or program that contain cryptographic proofs

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In Aleo, shielded transactions take place in an off-chain environment called zkCloud. ☁️

This guarantees #privacy & enables greater transaction throughput. 6/8

⚓ The Aleo #blockchain anchors the activity on zkCloud and provides a decentralized, censorship-resistant data availability guarantee. 7/8

💻 Aleo’s core technology stack unlocks the power of these primitives that developers can use to create truly private #decentralized applications.

Read more about how Aleo enables absolute privacy and maximum programmability: aleo.org/post/zero-know…

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