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Most companies treat your data like gold. Vitalik says treat it like toxic waste, and honestly the numbers back him up.
In 2017, Equifax was sitting on the financial data of about 147 million people. When it got breached, the data didn't make Equifax stronger. It made them a target. That pile of information was never an asset, it was a liability that nobody could safely store.
Now think about the last time you opened an account somewhere. You sent a photo of your passport, a selfie, maybe a bank statement, just to prove one tiny thing: that you are who you say you are, or that you have enough money. The platform didn't need all of that. It needed a yes or no. But it kept the whole file anyway, and now that file sits on a server waiting for the next breach.
This is the part I think people miss. Privacy isn't about hiding everything. It's about proving what matters without handing over the raw data behind it.
That's exactly what @primus_labs is building. With zkTLS, you can prove a claim from a real website or API, like "my balance is above this amount" or "this account is real", without exposing the underlying numbers or documents. The verifier gets the answer. Nobody gets the file.
For institutions this matters even more. A fund, a bank or a lender can't leave client data and positions scattered across every counterparty they work with. Collect less, store less, expose less, and still be able to prove everything an auditor asks for. That's the infrastructure they actually need.
Data you never collected can never leak.
Want to see how this works hands on? Start with the Primus XP tasks 👇
s.kaito.ai/2MQUSZA
In 2017, Equifax was sitting on the financial data of about 147 million people. When it got breached, the data didn't make Equifax stronger. It made them a target. That pile of information was never an asset, it was a liability that nobody could safely store.
Now think about the last time you opened an account somewhere. You sent a photo of your passport, a selfie, maybe a bank statement, just to prove one tiny thing: that you are who you say you are, or that you have enough money. The platform didn't need all of that. It needed a yes or no. But it kept the whole file anyway, and now that file sits on a server waiting for the next breach.
This is the part I think people miss. Privacy isn't about hiding everything. It's about proving what matters without handing over the raw data behind it.
That's exactly what @primus_labs is building. With zkTLS, you can prove a claim from a real website or API, like "my balance is above this amount" or "this account is real", without exposing the underlying numbers or documents. The verifier gets the answer. Nobody gets the file.
For institutions this matters even more. A fund, a bank or a lender can't leave client data and positions scattered across every counterparty they work with. Collect less, store less, expose less, and still be able to prove everything an auditor asks for. That's the infrastructure they actually need.
Data you never collected can never leak.
Want to see how this works hands on? Start with the Primus XP tasks 👇
s.kaito.ai/2MQUSZA
“We really need to treat data as toxic waste by default.” Data itself carries risk.View quoted post on X
By default we should collect less, store less, and expose less.
Do not hand it over or keep it unless necessary. Privacy is not about hiding everything.
It is about making sensitive information usable and verifiable without putting it on full display.
That is the infrastructure institutions actually need.
