"Aleph Zero is a layer 1 privacy-enhancing blockchain that ensures scalability, low transaction fees, instant finality, and optimal security."
Aleph Zero utilized Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) technology to create an efficient decentralized system that offers superior speed, validation time, scalability, and security.
Another key feature of Aleph Zero is its unique employment of both zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) and secure multi-party computation (sMPC) to create an internet that ensures the security and privacy of user data.
Scalability remains a significant challenge for widely used blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, with limited transaction processing capabilities and slow confirmation times. While some protocols claim faster speeds, they operate in closed environments, limiting their potential for widespread adoption. To overcome these limitations, the Aleph Zero platform ensures instant finality and efficient scaling at both the consensus protocol and smart contracts level. With higher transaction processing speeds and the ability to accommodate a large user base, Aleph Zero is well-suited for future on-chain applications.
Security is a significant concern in distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) despite the perception of their inherent security due to decentralization. While larger networks like Bitcoin may be relatively safe, smaller DLTs face daily attacks. Analyzing the security of consensus protocols is a challenge, considering vulnerabilities like double spending, 51% attacks, and Denial-of-Service attacks. Aleph Zero addresses these concerns with its novel AlephBFT consensus protocol. It can tolerate up to 33% malicious committee members without compromising validation, and transactions are confirmed with agreement from 67% of members. The network's asynchronicity ensures confirmation even during complete network asynchrony. Aleph Zero's decentralized and leaderless approach provides distributed denial-of-service resilience and allows for easy protocol recovery after network partitions, enhancing overall security measures.
The current privacy challenge at hand is the transformation of individuals into data commodities under current internet policies, prompting a demand for user control. Aleph Zero's solution is the employment of ZK-SNARKs to enable private computation on user-owned data records, while secure multi-party computation (sMPC) enhances this model by incorporating 'global secrets' controlled by smart contracts, allowing private multi-user interactions. This combined privacy approach facilitates the implementation of various multi-user systems, including private voting, auctions, and DeFi protocols. Through these security measures, Aleph Zero addresses the challenge of data commodification, empowering users with greater control over their personal information.
