【When "Efficient Verification" Becomes a Necessity: The New Possibilities of Web3 I See in Succinct】
Recently, while helping the team sort out the data storage process, I was surprised by a set of numbers - in the last month alone, we verified the authenticity of 1,200 user agreements and 300 supply chain documents, spending nearly 80,000 yuan on third-party notarization fees alone, not to mention the 170 hours of manual labor consumed. This suddenly made me realize that in this era of data explosion, "how to prove 'this is true' at a low cost" has become the most scarce ability.
It wasn't until I came into contact with @SuccinctLabs' solution that I figured out the key. Their core is not simply "moving data onto the chain", but using a self-developed "layered zero-knowledge proof protocol" to allow anyone to quickly verify the completeness and authenticity of information without disclosing the original data. Here's a real-world example: Last week, a friend doing cross-border trade used Succinct to verify the origin information of a batch of Southeast Asian rubber. What originally required a 72-hour third-party testing + notarization process, now took only 12 minutes to obtain a traceable proof through Succinct's light node verification - the key is that all data never left his local server.
What excites me even more is the "down-to-earth" nature of the technology landing. Succinct is not obsessed with complex algorithm skills, but hands over the "right to verify" to every ordinary person: lightweight verification nodes that can be participated in with mobile phones, a universal proof framework that supports multi-chain compatibility, and even a "0-code verification template" designed for small and medium-sized businesses. They often say that "true decentralization is to make verification no longer unattainable", and this insistence on "practicality" precisely hits the pain points that Web3 should solve most.
