Zero Knowledge Proof and Going Bankrupt

It was a chilly December 2021 and I was in the mountains of #Pakistan exploring the North, not hoping to find a glance at the Northern lights. The World was already facing a tragedy due to Covid-19. I was offered a founding position at a local startup based in #China with developers located in #EastAsia. The team consist of a few members initially but the product vision was promising. I decided to move forward with a more risky role and resigned from my permanent remote job.

Remote work culture was in the initial phase and all newly built startups and the FAANGs were practising this new working ethic. Therefore, it was not a relatively new thing to collaborate with developers overseas and build something interesting.?

As a Smart Contract engineer recruited in the team, my responsibilities included researching the blockchain space and finding relevant use cases that offer the same product in the Web3 domain. My skills as a blockchain developer were not refined until then and I realised it much sooner at some point when I switched to another role in the #USA instantly after Evise Network in #China went bankrupt due to investors pulling out early.?

Since I've got your attention for two different reasons now. I would be discussing further going bankrupt and whose fault was it. Back in 2021, Zero Knowledge proof was the talk of the day. Companies like Polygon, Ethereum foundation, and others have been researching ZKP to build a more sustainable blockchain, that offers resilient, cheaper, and, all-time fast transaction mining.?

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Researching applications that implement Zero Knowledge proof and offer a product in a truly decentralised environment was the task. One of the popular real-world projects got my attention and I decided to deep dive into that research output of the Brave browser. The initial concept that attract the basic attention of every user was the Basic Attention Token (BAT) offering in an integrated wallet and just viewing a few pop-up ads while browsing the Brave browser. But the concept besides that marketing campaign runs completely different from traditional marketing.?

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We will however research more about how Brave implemented the Zero Knowledge Proof and gain a complete Decentralised Ad Platform in the future article. Returning to our main context, reading more about Brave use case, I somehow convinced myself we are going to ace it and our promising project idea appears to be the aurora light in the night, which I was looking for in Northern #Pakistan. However, I am lucky enough to travel to #Norway as well but the aurora never appeared for me and I finally realised the doom of Evise Network was not just my fault, but rather the team's bad luck.

Our next article would discuss my findings about Zero Knowledge Proof and how I am still intact in this research domain.

If you like my article, give it a thumbs up, so I keep posting more stuff and, yeah, this article was just an introduction of myself and a blink of my career highlights.

I would be sharing more technical research on #ZKPs, #DAOs, and #Blockchain projects.