Fermah x Labyrinth: Powering Compliant Privacy with Confidential Proving Delegation

We're excited to announce our collaboration with Labyrinth Protocol, a multi-chain modular privacy framework that uses zero knowledge and threshold cryptography to enable compliant private transactions supported by a decentralized compliance network. The combination of Fermah and Labyrinth will enable performant and private applications.

Privacy-preserving applications often come with UX trade-offs, especially due to the cost and latency of proof generation. Fermah's Confidential Proving Delegation (CPD) addresses this challenge by enabling fast, confidential proof generation without compromising user experience. 

With the combination of Fermah and Labyrinth, you can have both privacy and compliance.

The Labyrinth Vision

Privacy-preserving applications often face a critical trade-off: privacy at the cost of user experience, due to the high latency and computational demands of generating zero-knowledge proofs on the client side. This bottleneck limits adoption across real-world use cases, from DeFi and DAOs to AI/ML and social applications.

Labyrinth aims to solve this by introducing a universal, decentralized privacy layer that can be integrated across chains and application types. Its vision is for every on-chain address to have a corresponding private account layer – by default and by design.

By integrating Fermah, Labyrinth enhances its middleware privacy solution with performant, confidential zero-knowledge proof generation, ensuring all transactions remain private, cheap, and fast.

CPD's Performance Impact & Why It Matters

Integrating Confidential Proving Delegation (CPD) from Fermah into Labyrinth is poised to deliver more than marginal gains. It sets the stage for a new performance ceiling in privacy-first applications.

Let's Look at Numbers:

• Proof generation times are expected to drop from minutes to seconds, cutting wait times and removing the lag traditionally tied to privacy-preserving workflows.
• End-user compute costs will fall dramatically, with all proving seamlessly offloaded to Fermah's universal proof market.
• User experience will feel indistinguishable from traditional Web2 apps — fast, seamless, and intuitive, with no added friction.
• Throughput will scale significantly, making it practical for high-volume applications to go fully privacy-native without bottlenecks.
• Developer overhead will shrink. Teams won't need to manage complex prover infrastructure or wrestle with complex ZK tooling.

Privacy has typically come at the cost of UX or developer complexity. CPD eliminates both. It makes privacy-native flows feel just as fast and effortless as centralized services, but without compromising on trust or decentralization.

Confidential Proving Delegation is crucial if privacy is ever going to be the default.

Join Us!

If you're interested in making your technology private, you will probably be interested in CPD. 

Just fill out this form, and our team will get in touch with you to help integrate it into your tech stack!

Together, let's bring privacy to the masses ✨

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