Ant Group’s AntChain has announced a new architecture upgrade for its privacy collaboration platform, AntChain FAIR, featuring Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) as a core technology for verifiable computation. This extends the transfer of trusted data to the verification of computing processes, data attributes and identities.

ZKP is a cryptographic technique that allows one party (the prover) to prove to another party (the verifier) ​​that they know a security or possess specific knowledge without revealing any details about the information or security itself.

ZKP is considered one of the most crucial technologies for the next five years in the Web3.0 era. It allows a tester to convince a verifier of the truth of a statement without revealing any additional useful information.

The integration of Ant’s AI security detection platform “Yijian” and Ant’s privacy computing platform “Yinyu” is considered a significant future trend. Training large-scale AI models requires vast amounts of data, and this data must go through privacy computing to ensure security and reliability.

Companies and institutions that adopt the ZKP architecture can ensure that the entire data calculation process is carried out according to the agreed conditions, is correct and can be verified, all while maintaining privacy. This will greatly enhance the credibility of identity verification, AI model training, data transfer, asset transactions, and on-chain and off-chain collaboration, accelerating the penetration of Web3.0 in more industrial scenarios. complexes.

AntChain has optimized software algorithms to speed up the “test generation” phase to 2.8 times the original baseline. This phase consists of generating a “proof” of data, identity, computational process, etc.

To lower the ZKP usage threshold, AntChain FAIR has introduced zkWASM, a new type of ZKP virtual machine, into its trusted computing architecture. This enables verifiable features at the instruction level and supports the conversion of algorithm programs written in various front-end languages ​​without the need to understand complex details of the underlying algorithms.

AntChain FAIR is a collaborative privacy platform for data transfer, combining the advantages of blockchain and privacy computing. It resolves the natural contradiction between data sharing and privacy protection in the data flow process. It is currently being used by various data exchanges, including the Hangzhou International Digital Trade Center and the Guizhou Big Data Exchange.