Today, the cryptocurrency exchange Gate officially welcomes the listing of the real-time ZK proof network project ZEROBASE (token: ZBT). This listing will provide global cryptocurrency investors with an opportunity to participate in cutting-edge privacy computing projects.
What are the technical advantages of ZEROBASE? How is its token economic model designed? How will it balance privacy protection with regulatory compliance? This article will explore these issues in depth.
01 Project Overview: Financing Layout and Vision Mission
ZEROBASE did not come into being out of nowhere. The project originated from the Salus Security cryptographic security team, which undertook the cryptographic work of the Ethereum Foundation’s cryptographic team.
In consideration of providing services for more projects with proven acceleration needs, Salus has expanded it into an independent project - ZEROBASE, a real-time ZK proof acceleration network designed for speed, decentralization, and compliance.
In 2024, ZEROBASE announced the completion of a $5 million financing round, with investors including top institutions such as Binance Labs, FactionVC, DAO5, Matrix Partners, and IDG.
This is particularly noteworthy against the backdrop of a crowded ZK track and the increasing caution of venture capital.
Mirror Tang, the CEO of ZEROBASE, is also a professor of cryptography at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. When introducing the project vision, he pointed out:
"ZEROBASE’s vision is to become a leader in the fields of privacy computing and trustless finance, addressing the trust and privacy issues of existing blockchains."
02 Technical Architecture: Distributed Network and Performance Breakthrough
Distributed Architecture Design
Unlike many competitors, ZEROBASE adopts an innovative distributed architecture. It divides nodes into multiple subsets, each managed by an independent Hub.
This design effectively avoids single points of failure, greatly improving the system’s fault tolerance and scalability.
In traditional architecture, all nodes must send heartbeat packets to the central Hub to maintain an online status. Once the Hub goes offline, the entire system will cease to operate.
ZEROBASE uses a consistent hashing algorithm to map nodes and hubs to a virtual circular hash space, achieving load balancing and elastic scalability.
Outstanding performance metrics
In terms of proof generation speed, ZEROBASE achieves an efficiency of about 120 milliseconds per million Circom proof constraints (per RTX 4090).
The overall network can generate ZK proofs within 400 milliseconds, and the consensus time is less than 1 second. This high-speed proof capability enables it to support application scenarios with very high real-time requirements.
03 Application Scenarios: zkEverything’s Ecological Layout
The technical application range of ZEROBASE is extremely broad, summarized as zk+everything. The currently implemented application scenarios include multiple fields.
ZEROBASE Staking
The core of this scenario is to generate direct benefits for users. By calling the exchange account API through the verification program to generate zero-knowledge proofs, it ensures that the arbitrage strategy does not use high leverage, does not allocate excessive funds to the same cryptocurrency, and has complete hedging of positions.
zkLogin
Users can use their Google or Facebook login information to verify their blockchain accounts without worrying about privacy breaches. This technology is already supported by StarkNet and works in collaboration with TOMO Wallet, making the user experience simpler and safer.
zkDarkPool
In the DeFi space, zkDarkPool allows users to conduct large transactions with greater privacy, avoiding market manipulation and bot sniping, especially enhancing the protection of small tokens.
social welfare application
Impressively, ZEROBASE also focuses on vulnerable groups. It helps low-income individuals in Arizona, USA, develop a privacy credit scoring system that assists them in verifying work records using zero-knowledge proofs to generate credible scores.
This allows people without a FICO credit score to find jobs, breaking the vicious cycle of "no credit - can’t rent a house - no address - can’t work."
04 Token Economics: ZBT Model and Listing Information
Token distribution model
According to official information, the total supply of ZBT tokens is 100 billion, with the specific allocation as follows:
- Team and Advisors: 20% (20 billion ZBT)
- Investors: 11.25% (11.25 billion ZBT)
- Liquidity: 2% (2 billion ZBT)
- Ecological Fund: 15% (15 billion ZBT)
- Airdrop and Early Mining: 8% (8 billion ZBT)
- Node Staking: 43.75% (43.75 billion ZBT)
The allocation plan shows that node staking occupies the largest proportion, reflecting the project’s emphasis on network security and community participation.
Gate listing details
According to the official announcement from Gate, ZEROBASE (ZBT) will officially launch and start spot trading on October 17, 2025, at 13:00 (UTC).
As of the same day, the circulating supply of ZEROBASE is 1 billion ZBT, with a market value of approximately 43,000 USD.
05 Privacy and Compliance: Verifiable Partial Decryption Commitment
Privacy projects often face regulatory pressure, and ZEROBASE achieves a clever combination of privacy protection and compliance through verifiable partial decryption commitment technology.
The core mechanism of this technology is to keep users’ data fully encrypted under normal circumstances, allowing authorized trusted institutions to partially decrypt the data only when specific conditions are met.
Mirror Tang metaphorically stated: "We are like making a ‘privacy vault’, where important things can only be taken out at critical moments, using the correct ‘key’."
This mechanism allows ZEROBASE to simultaneously meet the requirements of privacy protection and legal compliance, making it suitable for complex scenarios such as financial lending, tax audits, and asset liquidation.
Future Outlook
With the ZEROBASE token ZBT officially logging in to the Gate exchange today, ordinary investors finally have the opportunity to participate in this cutting-edge ZK infrastructure project.
From technical strength to application scenarios, from financing background to compliance solutions, ZEROBASE shows strong development potential. Its distributed architecture design and verifiable partial decryption commitment technology are particularly impressive.
ZK proof networks, as a key component of blockchain infrastructure, are becoming the next generation Web3 The core pillar of the application. ZEROBASE’s innovation in this field may bring new possibilities for the entire industry.
