The Missing Bridge Between Web2 and Web3 Data

While 8 billion people generate valuable data daily across the internet, most of it remains trapped in silos, completely inaccessible to smart contracts. Your bank balance, social media presence, employment history, and cross-chain assets all exist in isolation. This creates massive friction for building truly useful decentralized applications.

Enter vlayer: "Solidity 2.0" for the verifiable internet.

Instead of forcing developers to learn exotic ZK languages or hire cryptography specialists, vlayer extends regular Solidity with four game-changing capabilities:

🕰️ Time Travel - Query historical blockchain state from any past block

🌐 Teleport - Access data across multiple chains in a single call

🔐 Web Proofs - Verify private web data (bank balances, social accounts) without exposing credentials

📧 Email Proofs - Transform email content into cryptographically verifiable claims

The genius? These all work through simple function calls that any smart contract developer can use immediately.

Current State

Live on mainnet (v1.0.2) across Ethereum, Optimism, and Base with strong developer traction. Early adopters are building everything from automated RWA proof-of-reserves to cross-chain credit scoring systems. Proof generation currently takes 30 seconds to 3 minutes—fast enough for real applications, with major optimizations coming.

What's next for 2025

Beyond expanding to more chains, vlayer is focused on building the infrastructure for a truly "verifiable internet" at global scale. The vision isn't just a better DeFi; it's enabling entirely new categories of applications that seamlessly blend web2 data with web3 programmability.

The Golem Connection

This is where it gets technically exciting. Golem is supporting vlayer's cutting-edge research into GKR proof systems, specifically optimizing Keccak-256 hashing within ZK circuits. Since Keccak-256 is fundamental to Ethereum, success here could dramatically reduce proof generation times across the entire ecosystem. Expect white papers and public research sharing soon. This work benefits everyone building with zero-knowledge technology.

We're at a unique moment where L2s have solved scalability, regulations are clarifying, and ZK tech is maturing rapidly. vlayer might be the final piece needed to unlock the next wave of crypto applications, ones that bring real-world utility on-chain through verifiable data.

The future isn't just about trading tokens. It's about proving your bank balance to get a loan, verifying your social reputation for access, or aggregating your cross-chain portfolio—all without sacrificing privacy or requiring trusted intermediaries.

The verifiable internet is being built right now. What will you create with it?

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