The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress authored “Provenance Proofs: Linkable, Post-Quantum ZK Derivation Relations for Blockchain DeFi, Wallet and Identity Systems”.

In it, the researchers propose a way for a wallet to prove that several addresses or credentials belong to the same cryptographic identity. It can do so without revealing the wallet seed, private keys, derivation paths or the rest of the wallet. It’s essentially a form of selective disclosure that allows an individual to prove wallet…