Recently, while pondering @ZEROBASE ZEROBASE, I suddenly realized that what it aims to solve doesn't seem to be an optimization of 'a particular technical point,' but rather the longstanding issue in the on-chain world: how to establish trust.
We all know that the blockchain itself is trustworthy, but once off-chain data and computations are involved, it starts to get complicated. Oracles, intermediary verification, centralized interfaces, patches layered on top of each other, the system becomes increasingly complex, yet trust remains in question. It's like continuously patching a ship without ever modifying its structure.
Zerobase's approach is more straightforward: since the issue lies in 'computations not being directly verifiable,' let's make 'verifiability' the default configuration. It combines zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) and trusted execution environments (TEE) to allow data to run securely off-chain, while the results are inherently provable and verifiable. It's not about adding a report after the fact; it's about generating results with an accompanying 'proof tag.'