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AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs can prove crypto wallet ownership

The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress authored “Provenance Proofs: Linkable, Post-Quantum ZK Derivation Relations for Blockchain DeFi, Wallet and Identity Systems”.

In it, the researchers propose a way for a wallet to prove that several addresses or credentials belong to the same cryptographic identity. It can do so without revealing the wallet seed, private keys, derivation paths or the rest of the wallet. It’s essentially a form of selective disclosure that allows an individual to prove wallet ownership without giving away private information.

A New Use Case for ZKPs

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are a versatile technology. They let one party prove that a statement is true without revealing the statement itself. ZKPs were invented in the mid-80s. They are still evolving...

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Google Wallet got a lot of new tricks in 2026 – these 5 are my favorites

ZDNET’s key takeaways * Google Wallet can do much more now than store cards. * The app gained several major features in 2026. * You can give your child their allowance, go through TSA, and more. Most people know by now that Google Wallet can do things besides store your credit cards,

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Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women’s Lives

Last year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. Then a series of burner accounts on X started proliferating explicit, nonconsensual videos of her. This week, Zoë Schiffer sits down with WIRED’s senior writer Ej Dickson to discuss the burnerverse, a sprawling, loosely organized network

Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing “Bolting Bingo” against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room. A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve

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