Zerobase

• Zerobase is a zero-knowledge proving network aimed at combining privacy with regulatory compliance.

• It lets users verify information without disclosing underlying personal data.

• ZBT is used for transaction fees, staking and governance.

• Supply allocated across community, ecosystem and investors.

• Staked by provers generating proofs.

Pros:

• Privacy with compliance is the combination institutions actually need, rather than privacy alone.

• Backed by prominent ecosystem investors.

• Proving network model has established demand from rollups.

Cons:

• Privacy and compliance pull in opposite directions and reconciling them is genuinely hard.

• Crowded proving market with well-funded competitors.

• Launched recently with a short operating record.

• Exposure to compliance-oriented privacy infrastructure.

• The positioning addresses institutional requirements that pure privacy tools cannot.

• Weigh the competitive density in proving and the short track record.

• Proving infrastructure designed so privacy and regulatory disclosure requirements can coexist rather than conflict.

• Institutions need privacy from competitors and disclosure to regulators simultaneously.

• Selective proof disclosure can serve both, if the regulatory framework accepts it.

• Core contributor identities are partially public.

• Backed by YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs.

• No public ICO. Distributed through ecosystem and community allocations in October 2025.

• Regulators may not accept zero-knowledge proofs as sufficient disclosure.

• Crowded proving market.

• Very short operating history.

• Privacy infrastructure faces enforcement risk regardless of compliance framing.