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Coming up at Verifying Intelligence during TOKEN2049 week: ZK and Privacy - Balancing Confidentiality With Compliance 🔳 ZK proofs allow private data to be verified without disclosure, but in practice, privacy has to coexist with compliance frameworks. Our panelists will discuss how these two forces interact and attempt to define how far ZK can spread. Featuring: • @kashviETH, Community Lead at Boundless • Jon Stephens, CEO of Veridise • Raindy, Head of Marketing at Ontology - The Trust Layer for Web3 • Steve Kenny, Head of BD at Aztec • Remi ☁️, Founder of Inco ☁️ 🗓️ Sept 29th 📍 Caldwell House, Singapore 🎟️ Verifying Intelligence is co-organized by House of ZK & Boundless - in partnership with Google Cloud - and sponsored by 0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI), LazAI Network, AltLayer, Veridise, Ontology - The Trust Layer for Web3, & Gonka 🤝

Coming up at Verifying Intelligence during TOKEN2049 week: ZK and Privacy - Balancing Confidentiality With Compliance 🔳 ZK proofs allow private data to be verified without disclosure, but in practice, privacy has to coexist with compliance frameworks. Our panelists will discuss how these two forces interact and attempt to define how far ZK can spread. Featuring: • @kashviETH, Community Lead at Boundless • Jon Stephens, CEO of Veridise • Raindy, Head of Marketing at Ontology - The Trust Layer for Web3 • Steve Kenny, Head of BD at Aztec • Remi ☁️, Founder of Inco ☁️ 🗓️ Sept 29th 📍 Caldwell House, Singapore 🎟️ Verifying Intelligence is co-organized by House of ZK & Boundless - in partnership with Google Cloud - and sponsored by 0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI), LazAI Network, AltLayer, Veridise, Ontology - The Trust Layer for Web3, & Gonka 🤝

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We're proud to have Ontology - The Trust Layer for Web3 as a core sponsor of Verifying Intelligence during TOKEN2049 week 🤝 Ontology is a public blockchain powering secure identity, data privacy, and user control. With ONT ID, ONTO Wallet - Web3 Gateway, and Orange Protocol, it brings self-sovereign tools like DID and zero-knowledge proofs into real-world Web3 use. No tracking. No middlemen. Just people in control. Verifying Intelligence - Where ZK Meets AI - is an exclusive one-day event exploring the frontier of zero-knowledge proofs and artificial intelligence, and the convergence point between them: Verifiable AI. Co-organized by House of ZK & Boundless, in partnership with Google Cloud. Venue capacity is limited - RSVP now:

We're proud to have Ontology - The Trust Layer for Web3 as a core sponsor of Verifying Intelligence during TOKEN2049 week 🤝 Ontology is a public blockchain powering secure identity, data privacy, and user control. With ONT ID, ONTO Wallet - Web3 Gateway, and Orange Protocol, it brings self-sovereign tools like DID and zero-knowledge proofs into real-world Web3 use. No tracking. No middlemen. Just people in control. Verifying Intelligence - Where ZK Meets AI - is an exclusive one-day event exploring the frontier of zero-knowledge proofs and artificial intelligence, and the convergence point between them: Verifiable AI. Co-organized by House of ZK & Boundless, in partnership with Google Cloud. Venue capacity is limited - RSVP now:

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JUST IN: 's GOAT BitVM2 Testnet (V3) is live - their final public testnet before mainnet.

JUST IN: 's GOAT BitVM2 Testnet (V3) is live - their final public testnet before mainnet.

192,746 views • 4 months ago

At House of ZK, we’ve quietly built one of the most comprehensive media platforms for deserving projects building with zero-knowledge cryptography. Our platform stands on multiple pillars: 🔹 The largest ZK-related global events (ZK Hub, et al) 🔸 A podcast series that recently passed its 50th episode, and project-focused livestreams 🔹 Highly acclaimed virtual conferences 🔸 Limited edition printed magazines 🔹 Industry news reports and focused articles 🔸 A developer education series with leading zk cryptographer Vanishree Rao 🔹 And we're actively working on adding more (stay tuned) 👀 Everything we do is guided by a single objective: helping the world to understand the enormity of what is being built in this complex space, ultimately aiding ZK's adoption. Every project or business should understand the advantages of integrating ZK into their stack. Every user should know that ZK-based apps offer superior privacy, performance, and security. Every investor should recognize how early this opportunity still is. We also aim to ensure that House of ZK remains neutral - not relying on any single contributor to stay operational. We’re interested in exploring mutually supportive partnerships that help both sides not just survive, but thrive. If you’re building something important and believe our platform can help, reach out: 📩 ben.w@hozk.io X: Ben A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us on the journey so far. It's time to take it to new heights 🤝

At House of ZK, we’ve quietly built one of the most comprehensive media platforms for deserving projects building with zero-knowledge cryptography. Our platform stands on multiple pillars: 🔹 The largest ZK-related global events (ZK Hub, et al) 🔸 A podcast series that recently passed its 50th episode, and project-focused livestreams 🔹 Highly acclaimed virtual conferences 🔸 Limited edition printed magazines 🔹 Industry news reports and focused articles 🔸 A developer education series with leading zk cryptographer Vanishree Rao 🔹 And we're actively working on adding more (stay tuned) 👀 Everything we do is guided by a single objective: helping the world to understand the enormity of what is being built in this complex space, ultimately aiding ZK's adoption. Every project or business should understand the advantages of integrating ZK into their stack. Every user should know that ZK-based apps offer superior privacy, performance, and security. Every investor should recognize how early this opportunity still is. We also aim to ensure that House of ZK remains neutral - not relying on any single contributor to stay operational. We’re interested in exploring mutually supportive partnerships that help both sides not just survive, but thrive. If you’re building something important and believe our platform can help, reach out: 📩 [email protected] X: Ben A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us on the journey so far. It's time to take it to new heights 🤝

322,998 views • 11 months ago

In the traditional system it’s hard to jump classes. Bitcoin gives ordinary people a real shot to build wealth and change their lives.” - Kevin🌿, Core Contributor at GOAT Network 🟡 Bitcoin is open, scarce, and permissionless - so you don’t need to be “accredited” or plugged into legacy finance to participate. In Las Vegas, Kevin Liu explained how most people don’t want to sell their BTC; they want it to work for them. That’s where sustainable, Bitcoin-native yield matters. GOAT Network’s approach is to keep things on Bitcoin’s rails and align incentives. Users keep self-custody and can park BTC in a time-locked “safebox.” Instead of speculative rewards, yield is sourced from the network’s real usage: as on-chain activity grows, fees/revenue are shared back to participants. More activity → more revenue → more yield - without relying on token emissions or hidden leverage. It’s a path to turning idle BTC into a productive asset while staying aligned with Bitcoin’s security model. Watch the full conversation to see how this model works and what it could do for you (not financial advice):

In the traditional system it’s hard to jump classes. Bitcoin gives ordinary people a real shot to build wealth and change their lives.” - Kevin🌿, Core Contributor at GOAT Network 🟡 Bitcoin is open, scarce, and permissionless - so you don’t need to be “accredited” or plugged into legacy finance to participate. In Las Vegas, Kevin Liu explained how most people don’t want to sell their BTC; they want it to work for them. That’s where sustainable, Bitcoin-native yield matters. GOAT Network’s approach is to keep things on Bitcoin’s rails and align incentives. Users keep self-custody and can park BTC in a time-locked “safebox.” Instead of speculative rewards, yield is sourced from the network’s real usage: as on-chain activity grows, fees/revenue are shared back to participants. More activity → more revenue → more yield - without relying on token emissions or hidden leverage. It’s a path to turning idle BTC into a productive asset while staying aligned with Bitcoin’s security model. Watch the full conversation to see how this model works and what it could do for you (not financial advice):

150,320 views • 8 months ago

How do we harness AI’s power without widening the attack surface? House of ZK host Alice Liu leads YQ (Founder of AltLayer), Jon Stephens (CEO of Veridise), Leo Fan (mainnet arc) (Founder of Cysic), and Rob Viglione (Co-founder of Horizen & zk V e r i f y) through real-world guardrails: verifying models and parameters, ZK-backed proofs for training/inference, secure enclaves, 'shield' layers for LLMs, and sane data governance. Watch the full panel on AI & Security: Building Trustworthy Digital Systems - from our Verifying Intelligence event at TOKEN2049 Singapore, in partnership with Google Cloud and Boundless:

How do we harness AI’s power without widening the attack surface? House of ZK host Alice Liu leads YQ (Founder of AltLayer), Jon Stephens (CEO of Veridise), Leo Fan (mainnet arc) (Founder of Cysic), and Rob Viglione (Co-founder of Horizen & zk V e r i f y) through real-world guardrails: verifying models and parameters, ZK-backed proofs for training/inference, secure enclaves, 'shield' layers for LLMs, and sane data governance. Watch the full panel on AI & Security: Building Trustworthy Digital Systems - from our Verifying Intelligence event at TOKEN2049 Singapore, in partnership with Google Cloud and Boundless:

131,190 views • 8 months ago

What happens when ZK meets AI? Verifying Intelligence with Google Cloud & Boundless

What happens when ZK meets AI? Verifying Intelligence with Google Cloud & Boundless

125,999 views • 8 months ago

AI Agents are loops: an LLM selects tools, acts, reads results, and iterates - and Brandon Kase suggests that as they develop, we'll typically see many specialized agents coordinating rather than a single monolith. In his ZK Hub talk, Brandon explained that proving full LLM inference is not tractable today; the practical path is ZK around the agent. Dive deeper with the full talk:

AI Agents are loops: an LLM selects tools, acts, reads results, and iterates - and Brandon Kase suggests that as they develop, we'll typically see many specialized agents coordinating rather than a single monolith. In his ZK Hub talk, Brandon explained that proving full LLM inference is not tractable today; the practical path is ZK around the agent. Dive deeper with the full talk:

126,217 views • 9 months ago

Continuing our interview series from Aztec's NOIRCON2, we spoke with Michael Elliot and Théo Madzou from ZKPassport about building mobile-first, zero-knowledge identity. They explain how passport chip data and government signatures can serve as decentralized trust anchors, enabling self-sovereign, verifiable credentials without centralized issuers. We dive into ZKPassport's custom tooling for mobile ZK proving, the role of selective disclosure, and how privacy, compliance, and UX can coexist. The conversation also introduces Obsidian - a wallet built with Noir for private, compliant stablecoin payments designed to feel like using Revolut 🤝

Continuing our interview series from Aztec's NOIRCON2, we spoke with Michael Elliot and Théo Madzou from ZKPassport about building mobile-first, zero-knowledge identity. They explain how passport chip data and government signatures can serve as decentralized trust anchors, enabling self-sovereign, verifiable credentials without centralized issuers. We dive into ZKPassport's custom tooling for mobile ZK proving, the role of selective disclosure, and how privacy, compliance, and UX can coexist. The conversation also introduces Obsidian - a wallet built with Noir for private, compliant stablecoin payments designed to feel like using Revolut 🤝

129,378 views • 10 months ago

Intelligence Verified ✅ A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Verifying Intelligence 3.0 - the most highly regarded ZK/AI event of Ethereum Devcon Argentina 🇦🇷 Revisit all of the talks on our YouTube channel: See you at ETHDenver 🏔🦬🦄 👀

Intelligence Verified ✅ A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Verifying Intelligence 3.0 - the most highly regarded ZK/AI event of Ethereum Devcon Argentina 🇦🇷 Revisit all of the talks on our YouTube channel: See you at ETHDenver 🏔🦬🦄 👀

82,369 views • 6 months ago

With over 25 zkVMs now in development, the question isn’t just how they scale, but also how they’ll interoperate. This panel from our recent Ethproofs Summit explores how proof verification can be universal, what infrastructure is still missing, why proof markets need transparency, and whether bridges are obsolete in a zk-native future 🟢 Featuring: 🔹 Carlo Modica, Cryptography Engineer at Lita 🔹 DAC Economy, Co-founder of ZKM 🔹 Norbert Vadas, Head of Product at ZkCloud 🔹 Dominik Schmid, Co-founder of Miden 🔹 Alice Liu, Host at House of ZK Also available on YouTube:

With over 25 zkVMs now in development, the question isn’t just how they scale, but also how they’ll interoperate. This panel from our recent Ethproofs Summit explores how proof verification can be universal, what infrastructure is still missing, why proof markets need transparency, and whether bridges are obsolete in a zk-native future 🟢 Featuring: 🔹 Carlo Modica, Cryptography Engineer at Lita 🔹 DAC Economy, Co-founder of ZKM 🔹 Norbert Vadas, Head of Product at ZkCloud 🔹 Dominik Schmid, Co-founder of Miden 🔹 Alice Liu, Host at House of ZK Also available on YouTube:

132,080 views • 11 months ago

Can we build a circular Bitcoin economy without spending BTC? 🟠 In the closing keynote of our Bitcoin Economy Conference, Matt Luongo ✜, Founder of Thesis*, traced Bitcoin’s evolution from a medium of exchange to a store of value, explaining why people hoard BTC rather than spend it – and how we might finally achieve a circular Bitcoin economy by borrowing stablecoins against BTC instead of selling BTC. He also introduced Mezo, a platform to open credit lines against Bitcoin, enabling people to spend stablecoins collateralized by their BTC – from burritos to big purchases – without triggering taxable events or liquidating their coins. Also available on YouTube ▶️

Can we build a circular Bitcoin economy without spending BTC? 🟠 In the closing keynote of our Bitcoin Economy Conference, Matt Luongo ✜, Founder of Thesis*, traced Bitcoin’s evolution from a medium of exchange to a store of value, explaining why people hoard BTC rather than spend it – and how we might finally achieve a circular Bitcoin economy by borrowing stablecoins against BTC instead of selling BTC. He also introduced Mezo, a platform to open credit lines against Bitcoin, enabling people to spend stablecoins collateralized by their BTC – from burritos to big purchases – without triggering taxable events or liquidating their coins. Also available on YouTube ▶️

128,527 views • 11 months ago

In this ZK Hub presentation, Antonio Locascio and Michael Carilli of Matter Labs (∎, ∆) unveil a modular, EVM-equivalent architecture paired with a high-performance RISC-V GPU prover - targeting sub-cent transaction costs and 10,000 TPS by year’s end 👀 Explore the next phase of ZKsync with BoojumOS and Boojum 2.0 (∎, ∆) 🤝 Also available on the House of ZK YouTube:

In this ZK Hub presentation, Antonio Locascio and Michael Carilli of Matter Labs (∎, ∆) unveil a modular, EVM-equivalent architecture paired with a high-performance RISC-V GPU prover - targeting sub-cent transaction costs and 10,000 TPS by year’s end 👀 Explore the next phase of ZKsync with BoojumOS and Boojum 2.0 (∎, ∆) 🤝 Also available on the House of ZK YouTube:

121,875 views • 1 year ago

Here we give you the first Boundless House of ZK panel: The ZK Road to Enshrinement 🫡 Boundless by RISC Zero 🤝 House of ZK Featuring: 🔹 victorj, Co-founder Manta Network (🔱,🔱) 🔹 Stephen Duan, CTO at ZKM 🔹 Ben, CCO Taiko.eth 🥁 🔹 Tom Ngo, CEO Metis🌿 🔹 Caroline, Marketing Director Serotonin As Ethereum.org's long-term roadmap increasingly points toward native integration of ZKPs, this panel explores what that journey looks like. Are we almost ready for L1 enshrinement, or do we need more iterations on proving and verification efficiency? And will this advancement ultimately render Layer 2’s obsolete?

Here we give you the first Boundless House of ZK panel: The ZK Road to Enshrinement 🫡 Boundless by RISC Zero 🤝 House of ZK Featuring: 🔹 victorj, Co-founder Manta Network (🔱,🔱) 🔹 Stephen Duan, CTO at ZKM 🔹 Ben, CCO Taiko.eth 🥁 🔹 Tom Ngo, CEO Metis🌿 🔹 Caroline, Marketing Director Serotonin As Ethereum.org's long-term roadmap increasingly points toward native integration of ZKPs, this panel explores what that journey looks like. Are we almost ready for L1 enshrinement, or do we need more iterations on proving and verification efficiency? And will this advancement ultimately render Layer 2’s obsolete?

117,429 views • 1 year ago

At ZK Hub, qedk (Senior R&D Engineer, Avail) unveiled Avail Nexus - a trust-minimized interoperability layer that enables seamless, low-latency execution across rollups. Think: Amazon-style UX for Web3. From ZK proofs to modular chain unification, this could be the future of chain abstraction. Also available on YouTube:

At ZK Hub, qedk (Senior R&D Engineer, Avail) unveiled Avail Nexus - a trust-minimized interoperability layer that enables seamless, low-latency execution across rollups. Think: Amazon-style UX for Web3. From ZK proofs to modular chain unification, this could be the future of chain abstraction. Also available on YouTube:

110,176 views • 1 year ago

"I think a lot of the innovation happens first on other chains. Then if it's going to scale, the Bitcoiner's will figure out how to do it on Bitcoin" - Michael Terpin Michael Turpin, Founder of BitAngels, Transform Ventures, and advisor to the Bitcoin L2 , talks about how he believes experimentation happens on other chains before, if it works, converging back to Bitcoin. The ZK-enabled Bitcoin Economy is here 🟠

"I think a lot of the innovation happens first on other chains. Then if it's going to scale, the Bitcoiner's will figure out how to do it on Bitcoin" - Michael Terpin Michael Turpin, Founder of BitAngels, Transform Ventures, and advisor to the Bitcoin L2 , talks about how he believes experimentation happens on other chains before, if it works, converging back to Bitcoin. The ZK-enabled Bitcoin Economy is here 🟠

92,124 views • 10 months ago

Where will sustainable Bitcoin-native yield come from - without compromising decentralization? 🟠 At House of ZK’s Bitcoin Economy Conference, this panel explored the tradeoffs behind BTC-native lending, institutional inflows, and yield mechanisms - and what it takes to build sustainable yield models that preserve decentralization and align with Bitcoin’s core values. Featuring: 🔸 norbert, Global Growth at A Lee 🔸 Ben Sigman, CEO of Libre | Bitcoin L2 🔸 Hobart of StarkWare 🥷 🔸 Professor Redouane Elkamhi, Chief Economist at GOAT Network 🔸 Toby Lewis, Co-founder of OrdinalsBot ⚡ Also available on YouTube ▶️

Where will sustainable Bitcoin-native yield come from - without compromising decentralization? 🟠 At House of ZK’s Bitcoin Economy Conference, this panel explored the tradeoffs behind BTC-native lending, institutional inflows, and yield mechanisms - and what it takes to build sustainable yield models that preserve decentralization and align with Bitcoin’s core values. Featuring: 🔸 norbert, Global Growth at A Lee 🔸 Ben Sigman, CEO of Libre | Bitcoin L2 🔸 Hobart of StarkWare 🥷 🔸 Professor Redouane Elkamhi, Chief Economist at GOAT Network 🔸 Toby Lewis, Co-founder of OrdinalsBot ⚡ Also available on YouTube ▶️

94,302 views • 11 months ago

What happens when ZK wraps around AI instead of trying to prove it? In this talk from ZK Hub, Brandon Kase (CEO of o1Labs (httpz)/Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶) argues that the real near-term value of ZK x AI is in control, privacy, and coordination - not proving LLMs. Brandon introduces the idea of ZK as the "boundary layer" for AI agents - governing access to data, payments, and identity. He also teases a little bit about “Project Untitled”, a new decentralized private state layer for agent memory and coordination 🤝

What happens when ZK wraps around AI instead of trying to prove it? In this talk from ZK Hub, Brandon Kase (CEO of o1Labs (httpz)/Mina Protocol (httpz) 🪶) argues that the real near-term value of ZK x AI is in control, privacy, and coordination - not proving LLMs. Brandon introduces the idea of ZK as the "boundary layer" for AI agents - governing access to data, payments, and identity. He also teases a little bit about “Project Untitled”, a new decentralized private state layer for agent memory and coordination 🤝

102,055 views • 1 year ago

In our recent episode with StarkWare 🥷 & Zcash 🛡️ Co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io, we discuss Starknet (Privacy arc) 🥷's Bitcoin initiative as a return to first principles. Eli explains how Bitcoin today functions more like gold or real estate - a powerful store of value that mostly sits idle. To unlock lending, borrowing, and broader economic activity without leaving Bitcoin’s trust model, the system needs scalability, better UX, and expressive programmability. He argues that ZK-STARKs are the end-state for achieving this: a way to extend Bitcoin while preserving its core values of self-custody, decentralization, and censorship-resistance. This is the driver behind Starkware’s renewed focus on Bitcoin - bringing the same proof-based scalability used on Ethereum directly to Bitcoin infrastructure. For Eli, this isn’t a pivot; it’s the completion of a vision he first outlined in 2013: scaling Bitcoin with ZK proofs, the Bitcoin way. Tune in to the full episode at

In our recent episode with StarkWare 🥷 & Zcash 🛡️ Co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io, we discuss Starknet (Privacy arc) 🥷's Bitcoin initiative as a return to first principles. Eli explains how Bitcoin today functions more like gold or real estate - a powerful store of value that mostly sits idle. To unlock lending, borrowing, and broader economic activity without leaving Bitcoin’s trust model, the system needs scalability, better UX, and expressive programmability. He argues that ZK-STARKs are the end-state for achieving this: a way to extend Bitcoin while preserving its core values of self-custody, decentralization, and censorship-resistance. This is the driver behind Starkware’s renewed focus on Bitcoin - bringing the same proof-based scalability used on Ethereum directly to Bitcoin infrastructure. For Eli, this isn’t a pivot; it’s the completion of a vision he first outlined in 2013: scaling Bitcoin with ZK proofs, the Bitcoin way. Tune in to the full episode at

41,218 views • 6 months ago

What if your data worked for you instead of against you? In one of the most gripping talks at ZK Hub ETHDenver, Juan Angel (Juan), Ecosystem Growth at Nillion, made the case for “open but private” data - arguing that blind computation can break data out of corporate silos and let users lease it securely without ever revealing the raw inputs. Through real examples like encrypted genomic data (via Monatic DNA) and incentivized health prediction markets (Stadium Science), Juan painted a future where users hold the encryption keys, opt in to share data selectively, and get paid every time it's used. The biggest takeaway? Not your keys, not your data. This talk is also available to view on the House of ZK YouTube:

What if your data worked for you instead of against you? In one of the most gripping talks at ZK Hub ETHDenver, Juan Angel (Juan), Ecosystem Growth at Nillion, made the case for “open but private” data - arguing that blind computation can break data out of corporate silos and let users lease it securely without ever revealing the raw inputs. Through real examples like encrypted genomic data (via Monatic DNA) and incentivized health prediction markets (Stadium Science), Juan painted a future where users hold the encryption keys, opt in to share data selectively, and get paid every time it's used. The biggest takeaway? Not your keys, not your data. This talk is also available to view on the House of ZK YouTube:

65,091 views • 1 year ago