Zero knowledge private application platform aleo (1) what is aleo

Zero knowledge private application platform Aleo

What is? Aleo

Aleo Official website ：www.aleo.org0
Discord: https://discord.gg/2YWAmqh7
twitter ：https://twitter.com/AleoHQ

Aleo Is an American programmable data privacy Platform Developer , Mainly engaged in the development and application of programmable data privacy platform .

Aleo Have their own development language , It is an independent public chain , The imagination is huge .
Aleo yes Rust Independent public chain of language development . In the development process ,Aleo Build a new development language , Be similar to Java Programming language , Call it “Leo” development language .

“Leo” Language allows developers to ZKP Integrated into a variety of Web In the application . This means that Internet users can do things like visit websites or log in to applications , Without leaving personal data （ For example IP Address or browsing history ）, Allow developers to ZKP Integrated into a variety of Web In the application .

background

Big data era , Centralization App Hold our data ,App Data leakage events occur frequently , Personal data leakage is becoming more and more sensitive , Sina Weibo, the largest social media platform in China, was launched last year 3 Information was leaked in August , exceed 5.38 The personal information of billion users is put on the dark net and other online websites for public sale . The hacker claimed that , These sensitive data （ Include 1.72 The nickname of billion users 、 Gender 、 Place of residence and telephone number ） It is obtained from the official platform .2021 year 3 month 3 A hacker forum was exposed on the th 5.33 Personal data of 100 million Facebook users , These users are involved in 106 A country , Leaked information includes facebook ID、 Full Name 、 Location 、 Birthday 、 Profile and email address . To the public's surprise , The personal privacy information data released involves data from 106 A country's 5.33 Billion Facebook user , These include 3200 Million US users ,1100 Million UK users ,600 Million Indian users .

Today, , The business model of the Internet is to provide free services in exchange for personal data , It is hard to imagine , The privacy of ordinary users has become a public good . If Internet service providers want to sell these data , Users have no choice , Have to give up their privacy data in exchange for the services they want . With the development of network services, it becomes more personalized , This business model makes network services conflict with users .

Aleo CEO Howard Wu Be aware of the current privacy network , Has been seriously damaged , And a new privacy mechanism scheme should be established to protect users' data ,Howard Wu Founded by Aleo, Adopted ZKP( Proof of zero knowledge ) Privacy technology , have access to ZKP The technology developed on its platform should use .

Aleo The team

Aleo Team from Google 、 Amazon and Facebook And the University of California, Berkeley 、 Johns Hopkins University 、 World class cryptologists from research universities such as New York University and Cornell University 、 The engineer 、 Designers and operators .

Aleo Co founder Howard · Wu (Howard Wu)

investors

The United States time 2021 year 4 month 20 Japan ,Aleo It is announced today that 2800 Thousands of dollars , This round of financing is from Andreessen Horowitz（A16z） Lead investment ,“ We are very happy for Aleo Behind the star team to provide support .” — a16z Partners Katie Haun.

Participants include Galaxy Digital,Variant Fund,Coinbase Ventures. Other well-known investors include Polychain Capital,Slow Ventures,Dekrypt Capital,Scalar Capital,a_capital,zkValidator,Balaji Srinivasan And Joseph · Lubin （Joseph Lubin） New venture capital funds established Ethereal Ventures ,Aleo The purpose of this financing , It is a platform for building decentralized privacy applications , stay Aleo On the development platform , Anyone can develop or build your own private applications on their platform .

Reference resources

Aleo cofounder ： Zero knowledge proof will redefine network privacy protection
Reference resources URL: https://www.sohu.com/a/517250168_121118710
A16z Lead investment 2800 Thousands of dollars Aleo
Reference resources URL: https://new.qq.com/omn/20210422/20210422A076VR00.html