We talk about Web3, about the return of ownership to users.

But if all user data—from identity details to behavioral records—are forced to be public due to the transparency of blockchain, is this ownership truly complete?
Is it secure?

@zama’s vision may be broader than just a “blockchain privacy layer.”
It is actually building a foundational system for managing “data usage rights” applicable to the open networks of the future—whether blockchain or other distributed systems.
At its core is the ACL mechanism, which is essentially a set of meta-rules on how encrypted data can be used securely and controllably.

This addresses much more than just encrypted transactions.
Imagine:
🔹 Medical Research:
Multiple hospitals can jointly train AI models without sharing patients’ raw data.
ACL ensures data is used only for specified computations, and results are verifiable.

🔹 Enterprise Collaboration:
Companies within a supply chain can share encrypted sales and inventory data, automatically calculate optimal logistics and settlements, all while protecting their own business-sensitive information.

🔹 Personal Data Marketplace:
You can securely authorize the “usage rights” of your encrypted behavioral data to an ad analytics model and get paid per use, with the entire process never requiring data decryption.

By combining “verifiable computation” and “data confidentiality”—once thought to be mutually exclusive—@zama, through FHEVM and ACL, brings them together.
What it offers is a paradigm:
Trust is no longer built on “seeing everything,” but on “being certain the rules are enforced correctly, even if you can’t see.”

This may well be the foundational trust infrastructure needed for future digital societies:
Neither a completely centralized black box nor utter transparency without privacy, but an auditable, cryptographically guaranteed “controllable privacy.”
Zama does not attempt to overthrow the value of transparency; instead, with its sophisticated technology, it adds a necessary and refined gray area to this overly transparent world.

It is not just another privacy protocol—it is writing a new syntax for contractual relationships in the data-driven era.
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