Orochi Network, a Verifiable Data Infrastructure, is a proof-agnostic, Verifiable Data Infrastructure that transforms raw data into verifiable data—built for Web3, AI, DePIN, and real-world asset tokenization. With over 300K daily users, 1.5M monthly users, and 160M+ transactions, it currently powers more than 40 dApps and blockchains. Backed by $12M in funding from the Ethereum Foundation and leading VCs, Orochi also supports a growing community of 500K+ members. Its zkDatabase has been adopted by 20+ blockchains, while Orand and Orocle extend verifiability across 49+ chains. By combining Proof-Carrying Data with ZK systems like Halo2, zk-STARK, and Plonky3, Orochi delivers audit-grade integrity and slashes Ethereum data costs from ~$25 to ~$0.002 per KB.
What is Orochi Network?
Orochi Network is a Verifiable Data Infrastructure for RWA, AI, DePIN, DeFi, and gaming, ensuring:
Data Integrity: Cryptographic primitives guarantee provable data authenticity.
Security: Verifiable computations enable a "Proof-of-Everything" approach.
Seamless Interoperability: Our proof-agnostic infrastructure allows easy integration across multiple ecosystems via Zero-Knowledge Proofs and ZK-data-rollups.
Backed by grants from the Ethereum Foundation, Orochi Network was designed for wide industry adoption across sectors such as IoT, DeFi, gaming, and AI. Hence, over the past year, we have provided the service and partnered with several leading on-chain dApps and protocols such as Nexus Labs, Lumia, Plume, 0G foundation, Mina Protocol, Aligned layer, Sei, Sonic (Prev. Fantom), Scroll, Metis, Starknet, and many more.
Our team drives cutting-edge research and development, contributing to key Ethereum standards (EIP-6366, EIP-6617) and groundbreaking research and projects like DAGPool, Orand, zkMemory, zkDatabase, and RAMenPaSTA (Parallelizable Scalable Transparent Arguments of Knowledge for RAM Programs).
Orochi Network, Southeast Asia’s leading cryptography R&D firm, has secured a prestigious Ethereum Foundation grant for its zkMemory project—a modular zkVM framework enhancing scalability and flexibility for Web3 applications.
As the first project to earn this recognition, Orochi Network advances blockchain innovation through Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), focusing on scalability, privacy-preserving data, and secure distributed computations. With contributions to Ethereum standards (EIP-6366, EIP-6617), DAGPool - focused on tackling the MEV problem — a breakthrough in bringing fairness to users in the Ethereum ecosystem, open-source projects like Halo2 and Nova.
The problem
The blockchain arena has its death-defying challenges that hinder it from being capable of offering scalable, secure, and efficient solutions for businesses, the very vulnerabilities in smart contracts, data verification, scalability, security, and constrained on-chain computing being central.
Security is still paramount—although blockchains are secure, poorly designed smart contracts can be attacked and lead to costly breaches that erode trust. And on-chain computation limits render complicated calculations excessively costly, and applications will need to rely on off-chain processing that introduces trust and verification problems. For example, Maersk's TradeLens initiative, aimed at transforming the $12 trillion shipping industry, failed due to scalability and integration issues.
Besides, Orochi’s Verifiable Data Infrastructure plays a critical role in IT audits, treasury proving, and real-time asset verification.
For Anti-Money Lundering (AML) purposes, it enables projects to prove that staked funds are clean—without compromising user or vault privacy. Traditionally, this would require manual labeling, KYC-heavy processes, and maintaining large datasets.
In zkDatabase, all this complexity is compressed into a single Zero-Knowledge Proof, delivering performance, privacy, and transparency at significantly lower costs and a better user experience, without the need for third-party auditors.
For asset tokenization, Orochi enables real-time auditability and verification that off-chain assets are indeed collateralized 1:1.
For off-chain order book platforms, this mandates legal compliance and privacy for users, only exposing transaction data once trades settle, which better safeguards users and platforms alike.
Data Integrity
In decentralized Web3 environment, data integrity would be ensured by a set of distributed aggregators, each of which can independently verify correctness of data using cryptography. But most current Web3 solutions are based on oracles, which are inherently limiting and cannot guarantee data authenticity with certainty. This limitation keeps smart contracts from being able to verify third-party data, exposing systems to loss and fraud.
The integrity verification challenge is a significant one for blockchains, since verification of data without exposing full datasets is complex, particularly with growing volumes or complexities of data.
For instance, Pfizer, which has invested approximately $10–13 billion in research and development in recent years, could significantly accelerate clinical trials by adopting a privacy-protecting, integrity-securing data model, satisfying this important business need.
Data Availability
Smart contracts run within a sandboxed environment, such as the EVM or WASM runtime within the blockchain. While such isolation allow smart contract to be run seamlessly regardless of the architecture difference, it limits their ability to directly interact with external data sources, such as those in the real world. Also, the larger the number of users and transactions on a blockchain network, the more impractical and costly it is to store and retrieve all data on-chain.
Interoperability
Interoperability is a very important aspect of a decentralized Web3 system but is fraught with issues in most current solutions since there is not sufficient standardization and interoperability among different architectures. The present Data Availability (DA) Layer solution, which utilizes blockchain technology and commitment schemes, has not achieved on-chain contracts with a brief, single proof of the DA state, citing the long-standing hurdles to interoperability.
Scalability
There are existing Data Availability Layers constructed upon established technical paradigms that inherit the inherent shortcomings of existing blockchains, such as issues with finality and scalability.
These systems are incapable of releasing resources trapped within them and cannot achieve instant finality using Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus. Scalability also complicates it further, as blockchains such as Ethereum are constrained in their capacity to process transactions and produce reduced performance and higher costs.
For example, JP Morgan's blockchain repo platform that processes $1 billion daily is constrained by on-chain data limitations and cannot access the full $24 trillion repo market.
The Solution
To address the pressing challenges in blockchain technology, such as security, scalability, and data integrity, innovative solutions like zkDatabase, zkDA Layer, zkMemory, Orand, and Oracle offer targeted advancements for a robust Web3 ecosystem.
zkDatabase bolsters security for smart contract platforms by enabling data verification without exposure, mitigating risks of breaches or unauthorized access, while enhancing scalability through Zero-Knowledge Proofs that efficiently manage larger datasets.
ONProver is a lightweight zero-knowledge proving client developed by Orochi, designed to democratize decentralized verification. It allows anyone to generate and verify proofs without the need for heavy infrastructure or reliance on centralized services. By turning everyday devices into proof engines, ONProver lowers the barrier to entry and pushes trust to the network’s edge, laying the groundwork for a scalable, trustless system
zkDA Layer empowers users with private key ownership, granting full control over their data, secured and anonymized via encryption.
zkMemory, a critical feature for specific blockchain operations, optimizing cost efficiency and object storage.
Orand provides independently verifiable epochs, either externally or via smart contracts, ensuring reliability.
Orocle operates on a provable model, minimizing single points of failure and fostering trust with a distributed node network, delivering real-time, accurate data feeds tailored for dynamic Web3 applications.
Together, these solutions pave the way for more secure, scalable, and trustworthy decentralized systems.
Orochi Network Products
zkDatabase
zkDatabase is a specialized database system tailored for blockchain environments, harnessing Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) to deliver enhanced data integrity, security, and scalability. It provides faster processing and reduced costs for blockchain applications while granting data owners full control over our database instances, ensuring compliance with regional regulations through complete database encryption.
At its core, zkDatabase operates on a Zero-Knowledge Prover, enabling cryptographic verification of all data transactions with support for ZK-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge), which offer concise and computationally efficient proofs. Built initially on the o1js framework from O1 Labs, zkDatabase seamlessly integrates ZK-SNARKs, and its modular architecture ensures adaptability for future proof systems like Plonky3, promising even faster proof generation and greater scalability.
zkDatabase has processed over 274,000 operations with an exceptionally low error rate of just 0.0025%, caused by a single queue sequence gap. It supports a wide range of operations—over 70,000 READs, 88,000 INSERTs, 107,000 UPDATEs, and nearly 8,000 DELETEs.
Write performance remains stable across batch sizes up to 100K documents, averaging ~20 docs/sec with ~50ms per document. Query speed consistently stays under 15ms, even with datasets exceeding 100K records. zkDatabase is already powering real-world applications such as OG Labs, Skatechain, and other next-gen Web3 platforms, demonstrating its scalability, resilience, and readiness for high-integrity data needs in production environments.
ONProver
ONProver is a lightweight node that lets anyone verify data integrity from their own device, making decentralized proving accessible and efficient. Paired with zkDatabase, it delivers fully-verified data to paying clients—creating a sustainable, demand-driven model.
Users run ONProver, contribute proofs, and earn rewards funded by real client revenue, ensuring a healthy supply-demand balance backed by an already proven product.
zkDA Layer
In the zkDA Layer, users control their data with private keys, while encryption ensures security and anonymity. Orochi Network pioneers the Data Availability Layer (DAL) space as the first zkDA Layer, using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) for efficient, verifiable data processing. It natively supports ZK-data-rollups for scalable, private applications and provides a verifiable data pipeline with cryptographic proofs at every step—sampling, storage, and retrieval.
This enhances trust and transparency. Flexible and blockchain-agnostic, it works with various ZKP systems (e.g., Pickles, Halo2, Nova) and platforms. Its succinct hybrid aBFT consensus and Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) technology boost scalability and efficiency, making Orochi a privacy-focused, trust-driven solution for blockchain applications.
By leveraging the capabilities of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, it provides a robust solution to some of Web3's most daunting challenges, enhancing security and scalability. This revolutionary layer opens the door to secure, scalable, and user-friendly decentralized applications (dApps), addressing limitations in current systems.
How does zkDA Layer work:
Orochi bought 43 blockchains, smart contract platforms integrated our Orocle and Orand during 2024. Moreover, 34 out of these 43 blockchain have been confirmed to be early adopters of Orochi’s zkDA Layer.
zkMemory (zkVM)
ZK Memory helps Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines (zkVMs) utilize memory more efficiently. It allows for memory proving, which is crucial for certain types of blockchain operations, and addresses issues related to cost efficience and object storage in blockchain systems.
An advanced component designed to help Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines (zkVMs) utilize memory more efficiently. It addresses issues related to cost efficiency and object storage in blockchainsystems. Currently, Orochi has more than 1,9K zkVM installed in Orochi ecosystem.
Orand
Orand is based on the Elliptic Curve Verifiable Random Function (ECVRF) for deterministic, verifiable, and secure randomness on elliptic curve assumptions. Tampering is deterred by the design of the Orochi Network administrators. Independent Verifiability: Each Orand epoch can be verified externally or through smart contracts, ensuring transparency.
Flexible Randomness Provisioning:
Self-Managed: Request randomness directly from Orand's service and submit the proof to your smart contract.
Delegated: Transfer tokens to Orochi Network's operator to automate the entire randomness provisioning process.
Oracle-Integrated: Request and receive randomness seamlessly via an Oracle contract.
Cost Optimization: Batching multiple randomness instances (e.g., 100) into a single epoch significantly reduces operational costs.
Orocle
Orocle is an advanced oracle service that retrieves and validates off-chain data for blockchain smart contracts, moving beyond the vulnerabilities of traditional centralized oracles with a provable, decentralized model that reduces single points of failure and builds trust through a distributed network of nodes. Designed for the Web3 ecosystem, it delivers real-time, accurate data feeds to power dynamic applications, while also serving as a cross-sell product that enhances smart contracts with external data and a Verifiable Random Function (VRF)—powered by our Rust-based libecvrf library—for generating provably fair random numbers essential for smart contracts and Web3 games.
Use Case of Orochi Network
Orochi’s products have multi-industry transformative potential. In zkML, it combines Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) and AI model proofs to prove accuracy of AI decisions. For Real-World Assets (RWA), it enhances data correctness, censorship resistance, and fraud mitigation.
In IoT, it verifies trusted data integrity in a trustless environment on constrained devices and handles time-series data cost-effectively. Orochi also preserves privacy, protecting sensitive insurance and healthcare data, while in finance, it supports AML compliance and privacy-protecting income and credit score evidence.
For identity, KYC and KYB procedures are optimized without sacrificing privacy. In Web3 gaming, it offers seamless off-chain access to information and saves on storage costs by 1/1000 compared to on-chain. Additionally, it powers DeFi with off-chain order book storage and integration of real-world data, enables DePIN with hardware-verifiable time-series data storage, and optimizes blockchain by offloading storage to mitigate on-chain data costs.
AI and Machine Learning
Our target customers are AI startups and established tech companies developing blockchain-integrated AI solutions, particularly those handling sensitive data or requiring verifiable AI decisions. These businesses have specific technical needs to ensure their AI models operate securely and transparently. They require privacy-preserving training methods that allow AI models to learn from sensitive data without exposing it, safeguarding confidentiality while enabling effective learning. Additionally, they need proof of integrity, which provides the ability to verify AI model outputs without revealing the model itself, ensuring trust and accountability in decision-making processes.
Finally, these companies seek verifiable data integration, allowing for the secure and trustworthy incorporation of real-world data feeds into their AI models, which is essential for maintaining data reliability and fostering confidence in AI-driven outcomes. These capabilities collectively address the demands for privacy, security, and transparency in their innovative solutions.
DeFi Protocols
DeFi projects building complex financial products, especially those needing regulatory compliance or handling sensitive data, are the focus. They require privacy-preserving computations to protect user data, verifiable randomness for fair processes like order matching or liquidation, reliable integration of real-world financial data, and compliance without compromising privacy. These features enable secure, compliant, and efficient DeFi systems.
▶ Orand and Orocle Go Live on BNB Chain to Power DeFi Ecosystem Smart Contract Platforms and Layer 2 Solutions
Orochi wants to slove the problem at blockchain platforms aiming to upgrade their smart contract execution layers. These platforms are increasingly focused on enhancing privacy, boosting scalability, and enabling cross-chain interoperability. They need a system that supports privacy-preserving execution, verifies complex computations efficiently, and scales to handle demanding smart contract workloads.
IoT Devices
IoT devices generate vast amounts of data, often sensitive, ranging from personal health information from wearables to industrial sensor data from manufacturing plants. The challenge lies in efficiently storing, managing, and utilizing this data while ensuring privacy, security, and verifiability.
zkDatabase provides a streamlined solution for handling sensitive IoT data. Here’s how it works in a concise form:
Data Collection: IoT devices, like wearables or industrial sensors, continuously send their data to zkDatabase.
Off-Chain Storage: zkDatabase stores this data off-chain, easing the burden on devices with limited storage and processing power.
Blockchain Integration: Periodically, zkDatabase commits Merkle roots (compact data summaries) to a blockchain for security and verifiability.
Verification Request: A verifier asks zkDatabase to confirm specific data properties (e.g., “Is the temperature within range?”).
Zero-Knowledge Proof: zkDatabase generates a Zero-Knowledge Proofs, proving the property without revealing the raw data.
Proof Validation: The verifier checks this succinct proof against the blockchain’s Merkle root to confirm its correctness.
User Query: An end user or auditor requests a data property, and the verifier relays the verified result after obtaining a specific proof from zkDatabase.
Blockchain Gaming and GameFi Platforms:
Orochi targets companies building blockchain games or GameFi platforms with complex economies, randomized features (like loot boxes or character generation), and large user bases. It offers seamless off-chain data access, cutting storage costs by 1/1000 compared to on-chain solutions.
It meets their needs for verifiable randomness to ensure fair game mechanics, efficient off-chain storage with on-chain verifiability for transparency, and scalable game economies beyond single-blockchain limits.
Privacy-Focused Healthcare and Medical Research Organizations
The system would assist healthcare professionals and research institutions studying blockchain for patient data management and privacy-focused medical research. It would provide secure, privacy-centric storage for sensitive medical data, enable data analysis for insights without risking patient privacy, ensure transparent and verifiable random selection in clinical trials, and streamline data collection from diverse medical devices and sources, offering an efficient, comprehensive solution.
Smart City and Urban Planning Initiatives
City governments or smart city technology vendors developing blockchain-based systems for governing cities. As such, they also need to handle and process large volumes of city-level data without violating individual privacy, which gives rise to the necessity of demonstrating some city-level facts or achievements without revealing granular data. Need to combine real-time data from numerous urban sensors and systems.
Closing Though
Orochi Network stands at the forefront of verifiable data infrastructure, delivering scalable, privacy-preserving, and audit-grade solutions for Web3 and beyond. Backed by the Ethereum Foundation and integrated across 40+ dApps and blockchains, Orochi’s ecosystem—including zkDatabase, ONProver, zkDA Layer, zkMemory, Orand, and Orocle—solves critical challenges in data integrity, scalability, and compliance.
From underwriting DeFi, RWA tokenization, and AI transparency to enabling secure off-chain storage of healthcare and IoT data, Orochi reimagines the potential for decentralized systems to serve with trust and efficiency. By transforming raw data into cryptographic proof, Orochi reduces reliance on centralized go-betweens and makes real-time verifiability a part of any application, setting the stage for the next generation of secure, scalable digital infrastructure.
