Vlayer provides a trustless verifiable data infrastructure that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to integrate on-chain and off-chain data into Solidity smart contracts. This technology enables developers to create secure decentralized applications while ensuring data authenticity and privacy without relying on centralized sources.
Funding
$10M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Smart contracts lack direct access to real-world data and historical on-chain data, limiting their utility in decentralized applications. Verifying the authenticity and integrity of off-chain data sources within a smart contract environment is also a significant challenge.
Solution
Vlayer provides a verifiable data infrastructure that allows Solidity smart contracts to access and verify both on-chain and off-chain data using zero-knowledge proofs. This infrastructure introduces Prover and Verifier smart contracts, where the Prover executes off-chain to fetch data from sources like web pages, emails, and other blockchains, while the Verifier operates on-chain to validate the data's authenticity. Vlayer enables developers to build dApps that can react to real-world events, access historical data, and interact with multiple chains in a trustless manner.
Target Audience
Vlayer targets Web3 developers building DeFi, gaming, and other decentralized applications that require access to verified on-chain and off-chain data.
Features
- **Web Proofs (zkTLS):** Verifies the authenticity of web page content and APIs, allowing parsing of JSON data on-chain.
- **Email Proofs (ZK Email):** Verifies the origin and content of emails, enabling parsing of email content using regular expressions.
- **Time Travel:** Enables interaction with the EVM state at specific past blocks, allowing access to historical on-chain data.
- **Teleport:** Facilitates cross-chain interactions within a single Solidity call, enabling smart contracts to interact with multiple blockchains.
- **Prover/Verifier Architecture:** Utilizes off-chain Provers for data retrieval and proof generation, and on-chain Verifiers for proof validation.
- Compatible with Ethereum ecosystem
- Dashboard interface to orchestrate the usage of the underlying features