Darkfi

What is Darkfi?

DarkFi is an environment with a language for writing zero-knowledge smart contracts. A global decentralized economic network operating fully anonymously.

DarkFi is not a project or a company. We are a community and a movement.

DarkFi is not a corporate startup. It's a democratic economic experiment, an operating system for society.

DarkFi is an anonymous DeFi network. Its objective is to offer flexible private primitives that can be wielded to create any kind of application. DarkFi uses advances in zero-knowledge cryptography and creates a contracting language and developer toolkits aimed to make anonymous engineering highly accessible to developers.

Crypto-anarchy is the tactic of using cryptography for counter-economics.【反动起来了】

Privacy technologies are emerging stronger than ever and are completely unstoppable.

Combine all this together and we get: DarkFi.

ZK unlocks an entirely unexplored design space of anonymous applications. Previously if you wanted to create an anonymous application you had to think how to combine several existing cryptographic schemes. Maybe it would be slow or impossible. But with ZK, we have a generic cryptographic schema that any programmer can use to create anonymous applications.

We can create anonymous services. Users can interact with DAOs and markets where they use credentials. You attach a proof which says that a statement is correct. Nothing else about your identity is leaked. Services are operated in this manner.

What does Darkfi do?

For example, we can compress an entire blockchain into a ZK proof. Rather than downloading 300 Gb of data on initial sync with the network, you can instead download a 22 Kb proof that the current state has been correctly computed from genesis. There are already projects offering this. This property of ZK is called succinctness.

Using this technique, we can create completely dark financial markets: a global decentralized economic network operating fully anonymously.

ZK is a powerful design space opening up for developers. It is also a new computational architecture different to the Vonn Neumann model that we are all familiar with. Certain types of operations are more favourable compared to others which takes some getting used to. There is a lot of scope and exploration here for advancing the tooling around ZK such as compilers which are still very primitive.

This is the first step toward a new economic model for technology that is not based off the exploitation of users.

Progress

We already have a testnet bridged with Bitcoin and Solana networks. We plan to add support for Ethereum and Monero soon.

Our initial focus will be simple anonymous swaps and a DAO for governance. We plan to focus on building out organizational tooling and rapidly expand our ecosystem.

Pain point

Everybody is deeply discontented with the power and capital monopolies ruling over us.

跟邪教一样的marketing: The regulators are coming for us. They see us as children with boots too big for our feet. We need to be put back in our place. They do this from outside and within. Those crazy anarchists amongst us get shushed, given freakish looks, shunned and told off for stirring the pot. Who are these people and where did they come from? Certainly in their clean corporate cages they would never have risked betting on Bitcoin in 2010. Yet here they are attaching themselves to success, making sure things are done right.

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