According to TechFlow, on June 7, Guy Wuollet, an investor at a16z Crypto, said on social media that zero-knowledge (ZK) technology is severely underestimated and discussed its huge potential in cryptocurrency and developer tools. Wuollet compared it to the success of the iPhone and pointed out that ZK technology is expected to bring a series of innovative applications.
He mentioned that the success of the iPhone lies in the combination of programmable mobile computers, GPS and high-quality cameras, which gave rise to applications such as Instagram and Uber. Similarly, ZK technology, especially zkVMs (such as Jolt), may bring similar revolutionary changes. He believes that DeFi protocols should adopt risk modeling in ZK and use more complex pricing functions.
In addition, blockchain and ZK proofs can enable people to have censorship-resistant AI companions and be used to prove simple machine learning models. Wuollet concluded that ZK technology can be used to build more complex DeFi protocols, censorship-resistant AI companions, or on-chain machine learning, calling on developers to pay attention to this emerging field.
