Marek Olszewski

So you verify the authenticity of this data in zero knowledge, and then you can prove statements about yourself in zero knowledge without having to reveal your personal information.

And so that's ultimately what self is.

It's

Primarily great for civil resistance, which is primarily amazing for onboarding billions of people into crypto using rails, using IDs that people have today without requiring them to go get in front of physical hardware.

But it's also actually so much more because you can, in zero knowledge, do verifiable credentials.

You can prove statements about yourself.

without revealing anything else.

And so one pretty interesting use case is you can prove you're over a certain age.

We're seeing a lot of regulation globally that's protecting minors, either from social media or from adult content sites.

But the way that they're enforcing that is through KYC, which is, I think, probably the wrong move.

Something like self allows you to prove that you're over, say, 18 without even revealing your birthday to anyone.

Another cool use case is proving that you're not on the OFAC list.

If you're getting an airdrop, increasingly more projects are worried about sanctions law.

We can prove that you're not on the OFAC list without the individual having to reveal anything about themselves.

And so there's a lot of really cool use cases, some very serious, very Web3, some more Web2.

And then there's also just like fun ones, like you can prove your hair color in zero knowledge.

So if you want to do a true blonde coin, you could... My hair color is incorrect on my ID.

Different than your actual...

But I mean, yeah, there's like cool fun things you could do on that front.

You know, you could definitely do a David coin.