Verifiable Data Infrastructure for Real-World Finance
In today’s fast-evolving DeFi landscape, bridging traditional finance with decentralized infrastructure demands more than just tokenized assets, it requires trust, compliance, and robust data integrity. Nest Protocol stands at the forefront of this movement, offering permissionless real-world asset staking and oracle services through the Plume blockchain. However, as it scales its mission, Nest faces significant challenges around regulatory compliance, risk monitoring, data transparency, and smart contract security.
At Orochi Network, we are fundamental to the sustainability and trustworthiness of any RWA platform. That’s why our partnership with Nest Protocol centers on integrating zkDatabase, a Verifiable Data Infrastructure purpose-built to solve precisely these problems. Through Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) and decentralized computation, we enable Nest to unlock the next phase of compliant, scalable, and trust-minimized asset staking. What is Nest ?
Nest Protocol is a permissionless, real‑world asset staking platform and decentralized oracle network operating on the Plume blockchain. It enables users to stake stablecoins (e.g. USDC/USDT) into vaults backed by regulated assets like treasury bonds, private credit, and institutional-grade investments. Designed to bridge traditional finance with DeFi, Nest offers composable vault tokens that are tradeable across Plume’s expanding RWA ecosystem.
What is the problem with Nest
Regulatory compliance: Scaling globally requires compliance frameworks that may restrict innovation regionally.
RWA risk management: Continuous monitoring of real‑world assets is resource-intensive and crucial for user trust.
Trust and transparency: In a decentralized environment, maintaining consistent data integrity across nodes and participants is difficult.
Smart contract security: Evolving threat vectors demand proactive updates and resilience.
Permissionlessness vs. regulation: Finding the right balance between open access and institutional compliance is both philosophical and operational.
How Orochi Network’s zkDatabase Solves the Problem
As the world’s first Verifiable Data Infrastructure, Orochi Network addresses these issues through the zkDatabase and related products:
Proof-enabled compliance & auditability
zkDatabase embeds verifiable Zero-Knowledge proofs into financial operations, ensuring regulators and institutional users can verify compliance without exposing sensitive data.
Efficient RWA yield infrastructure
By executing heavy computations off-chain and submitting concise ZKPs on-chain, zkDatabase significantly reduces gas and operational overhead, making RWA protocols more cost-efficient.
Immutable transparency & interoperability
Stored off-chain but verifiably anchored on-chain, Nest’s financial data becomes publicly auditable while remaining interoperable across multiple DeFi protocols.
Adaptive cryptographic resilience
Our support for evolving proof systems (e.g. Halo2, zk‑STARK, Plonky3) enables continuous security improvements without disrupting Nest’s smart contracts.
How does zkDatabase work in the Nest Ecosystem?
zkDatabase, developed by Orochi Network, is a modern noSQL database that integrates advanced cryptographic techniques specifically Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), to ensure that data queries and transactions can be verified without exposing the underlying data. 
How zkDatabase Works
Zero-Knowledge Prover: At the core, zkDatabase uses a Zero-Knowledge Proof. This component generates cryptographic proofs (zkSNARKs) that confirm the validity of data operations. These proofs are concise and computationally efficient to verify.
Proof Verification: When a query or transaction occurs, zkDatabase creates a proof that the operation was performed correctly. Anyone can verify this proof without accessing the actual data, ensuring privacy.
Modular Architecture: zkDatabase is built to support multiple proof systems. The first version uses the o1js framework from O1 Labs, but future versions plan to integrate faster systems like Plonky3 Cryptographic Modules: Specialized modules handle the generation and verification of zero-knowledge proofs, optimized for speed and minimal overhead.
Conclusion
As Real-World Asset (RWA) platforms like Nest Protocol strive to bring traditional finance into the decentralized era, the demands for transparency, compliance, and security grow increasingly complex. These challenges cannot be solved by conventional infrastructure alone; they require verifiable, privacy-preserving solutions that scale. By integrating zkDatabase, Nest Protocol gains the ability to offer auditable compliance, efficient RWA yield infrastructure, and immutable data transparency, without compromising on decentralization or user privacy. Together, we’re building a new standard for verifiable finance, where trust is not assumed, but mathematically proven. 
