Ethereum zkAPI: Private AI Inference Without Identity
Ethereum Just Made Private AI Possible: Inside the zkAPI Launch Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan As the chief editor of ethdan.me, I've watched Ethereum reinvent itself more times than I can count: smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs, the Merge, the rollup revolution. But today's announcement hits different. The Ethereum Foundation has just launched zkAPI on mainnet — a protocol that lets you use commercial AI models without anyone knowing who you are, what you asked, or even that it was you paying. Private AI, running on Ethereum. Let that sink in. Every time you prompt ChatGPT or Claude through their APIs today, you leave a paper trail a mile wide: your credit card, your API key, your full prompt history — all visible to the provider, the billing processor, and whoever subpoenas either of them. zkAPI breaks that chain completely. Here's everything you need to know about the most curious Ethereum launch of the year. What's the Big Deal? Ethereum zkAPI, E...