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Zero-Knowledge Proofs for DeFi Reputation: How We Built It

· 4 min read
CrowdProof Team
Protocol Engineering

When we set out to build a reputation layer for DeFi, we hit a fundamental tension: protocols need to verify creditworthiness, but users shouldn't have to broadcast their exact scores to the world. Zero-knowledge proofs solve this elegantly.

This post walks through how CrowdProof uses Groth16 SNARKs to enable private reputation verification — the tradeoffs we considered, the circuit design, and the performance characteristics.

Introducing CrowdProof: The Decentralized Credit Bureau for Web3

· 3 min read
CrowdProof Team
Protocol Engineering

On-chain activity tells a story. Every loan repaid, every governance vote cast, every trade executed — they form a pattern that reveals how reliable a wallet is. But until now, there was no standardized way to read that story.

CrowdProof is a decentralized identity and reputation protocol that transforms raw blockchain data into privacy-preserving reputation scores.