$ZKP
Introducing $ZKP, the Utility Token of the Verifiable Internet
The internet has always been built on information, but not on verifiable truth. For decades, online data has been visible rather than verifiable. Screenshots can be forged, credentials fabricated, and trust has relied on assumption instead of proof.
zkPass and its zkTLS protocol redefine this foundation. For the first time, private Web2 data such as financial records, identity attestations, learning streaks, or travel histories can be transformed into cryptographic proofs that are portable, privacy-preserving, and verifiable across networks. At the center of this verifiable data economy stands $ZKP, the native utility token that enables settlement, validation, and coordination within the zkPass ecosystem.
Token Overview
Ticker: $ZKP
Token Standard: ERC-20
Total supply: 1,000,000,000
Supply Type: Fixed, no inflation
Deflationary Model: Portion of settlement fees burned to keep supply deflationary.
Buyback Mechanism: DAO-led periodic buybacks funded by protocol revenue.
Token Utility
Settlement Medium $ZKP is the native functional unit required for proof settlement and verifier execution within the zkPass ecosystem.
Validator Collateral Validators post $ZKP as operational collateral to ensure network correctness, uptime, and reliability.
Network Credits $ZKP operates as on-chain credits for recording and accounting network contributions, including verifiable computation and integrations.
Service Access Used by enterprises and developers to interface with zk-native verification APIs and privacy-preserving data infrastructure.
Cross-System Verifiability and Governance $ZKP supports decentralized coordination and acts as the trust layer linking verifiable systems, while sustaining audits and other non-profit maintenance activities.
Token Allocation and Vesting Schedule
Community — 48.5% (12.5% unlocked at TGE, 6% vesting linearly over the first 3 months, and 30% vesting monthly over 5 years starting from TGE) Allocated for ecosystem growth, including verifiable airdrops, network incentives, community sales, exchange-related marketing, and strategic partnerships.
Early Investors — 22.5% (12-month cliff followed by 18-month linear vesting) Allocated to strategic and institutional partners who supported early-stage protocol development.
Core Contributors — 14% (24-month cliff followed by 24-month linear vesting) Reserved for founding members, engineers, researchers, and key operational contributors driving the zkPass network.
DAO Treasury — 10% (5-year linear vesting) Dedicated to long-term network sustainability, governance, ecosystem grants, and emergency reserves.
Liquidity — 5% (100% unlocked at TGE) Reserved for market liquidity provision and network bootstrapping.
At launch, circulating supply is limited to community participation and liquidity, with 0% unlocked for the team or investors.
The Credibility Flywheel
→ Web2 and Web3 converge, unlocking vast data universes. → Data moves through privacy-preserving verification. → Verified interactions create real utility and new applications. → Utility drives adoption by users and enterprises across ecosystems. → Adoption fuels validator participation and network incentives. → Growing value accelerates integrations and data onboarding. → Each new data source restarts the cycle, faster, stronger, and broader.
Each rotation compounds utility, liquidity, and credibility, turning trust into energy and energy back into trust.
zkPass is not just building a product. It is engineering a self-sustaining trust economy for the digital world, the coordination layer for every system that must prove before it can act.
Conclusion
The Verifiable Internet is emerging. zkPass provides the cryptographic infrastructure that transforms private data into verifiable proof without revealing its contents. $ZKP enables this coordination by serving as the functional medium for settlement, verification, and protocol participation. From visible data to verifiable truth, $ZKP is the coordination layer that makes it possible.
Disclaimer
$ZKP is a utility token used exclusively within the zkPass network for operational purposes such as proof settlement, validator staking, and community participation.
It does not represent equity, ownership, or profit rights in any entity and is not intended for investment or speculation.
Availability of $ZKP may be limited in certain jurisdictions, including the United States.
All governance and protocol administration are conducted under zkPass DAO, a non-profit Swiss Association responsible for ecosystem stewardship.
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