Every identity stack in crypto failed for the same reason:

the verifier wasn’t the origin.
OAuth bridges, data scrapers, custodial APIs all require someone else to hold or inspect the data before attestation.

@zkPass removes the third party entirely.

The browser session becomes the proof surface.
TLS negotiation is captured locally, mirrored by MPC participants, and compressed into a ZK proof that reveals validity without exposing content.

This isn’t an upgrade.
It’s a different model.

It collapses the liability chain, eliminates custodial trust, and replaces “trust the API provider” with “trust the proof.”

For identity oracles, that’s the first real structural improvement the space has seen.

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➥ How @zkPass Moves Trust to the User, Not a Middleman

zkPass uses a three-party TLS handshake to authenticate data directly from any HTTPS session.
The key detail is not TLS itself. It’s where the verification happens.

The browser captures the authenticated state.
MPC nodes replicate the handshake to ensure the session wasn’t tampered with.
Zero-knowledge proofs compress that attested view into a minimal, verifiable credential.

No one extracts the data.
No one fronts the session.
No one handles the payload.

Identity verification stops being a trust problem and becomes a pure cryptographic transformation.

This is the shift most teams have not internalized yet. It’s not another “privacy product.”
It turns Web2’s authenticated pages into a universal credential substrate.

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➥ How @zkPass Verifies Identity Without Storing It

Once any authenticated Web2 page can become a proof, the data surface explodes.

Reputation, contribution history, ownership, creditworthiness; the proofs exist, but the raw data never leaves the user’s device. The oracle stops being a data warehouse and becomes a validator of authenticity.

This is the difference:
Price oracles import data.
Identity oracles traditionally aggregate it.
zkPass verifies it without ever touching it.

That compresses the entire risk footprint of identity verification.

For DeFi, that means a new class of collateral and access logic that does not rely on heuristics, centralized checks or privacy trade-offs.

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➥ The Architecture That Makes @zkPass Hard to Copy

The strength of zkPass isn’t a single primitive. It is the interaction of four:

• Browser execution anchors proofs at the edge, not on a server.
• MPC replication destroys single-verifier risk.
• ZK compression turns a multi-step handshake into a minimal on-chain object.
• No-API design gives the system infinite integration surface across the existing Web.

Individually, none of these win the market.
Together, they eliminate the trust assumptions the entire identity-oracle category was built on.

This is how an identity layer becomes Lindy:
Correctness is enforced by cryptography.
Neutrality is enforced by the network.
Control is enforced by the user.

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➥ What This Unlocks?

DeFi has never had privacy-preserving, verifiable user-level credentials at scale.
Every risk market built so far is a proxy because no one could reliably verify user attributes without inheriting regulatory exposure or custodial risk.

A browser-anchored ZK oracle changes the design space:

• Credit layers can form without exposing financial statements.

• Compliance-lite access can emerge without recreating a KYC honeypot.

• New collateral categories become viable because credentials can be proven without revealed data.

• Reputation systems can operate without surveillance.

This isn’t an upgrade to identity.
It is identity becoming a cryptographic primitive composable at every layer of the stack.

And once that primitive exists, the rest of the ecosystem has to reorganize around it.