In an interview, Justin Sun, the Founder and CEO of TRON, discusses how the platform will implement Zcash’s zk-SNARKs cryptography in Q1 of 2019. Such a move would bring users greater anonymity and privacy.
On Nov. 28th episode of The Bad Crypto Podcast, co-host Rachel Wolfson interviews Justin Sun on the progress of TRON’s technology and its adoption.
Justin Sun spoke about a host of different developments within the TRON ecosystem: delegated proof-of-stake governance, integrations with BitTorrent, the blockchain’s impact on the industry, and most notably, its planned implementation of zk-SNARKs.
Argument for PrivacyAccording to Justin Sun, social media websites and search engines are monetizing user data, and many users on these platforms feel that this is an invasion of privacy:
“[People] don’t want their privacy stored by Facebook or Google because those people can more easily manipulate the data so they can push ads to you. You don’t want to share those data with them. That’s why I think the decentralized way becomes a good way to do that [and limit how much data you are required to share].”
Introducing zk-SNARKsBy leveraging existing technologies, Justin Sun can push the TRON protocol substantially increasing privacy through the use of zk-SNARKs:
“Q1 [2019] we will implement zk-SNARKs (zero-knowledge-proofs) into our network. This is how we can improve privacy in the whole network. In the future, if you want these privacy transactions and a private address, we can make sure… they cannot see you and the transaction can be untraceable.”
zk-SNARKs is a novel form of zero-knowledge cryptography. First widely popularized by privacy coin Zcash, zero-knowledge proofs are now used in a host of different cryptocurrency projects.
The adoption of this feature would have some interesting ramifications. Once implemented, users would be able to ‘shield’ transactions—effectively encrypting those transactions. If implemented correctly, such encryption would allow TRX users to hide the amount, the sender, and the recipient of a transaction.
Reference:
https://cryptoslate.com/tron-ramping-up-privacy-adopting-zk-snarks-from-zcash/
