Fermah x Reclaim: Private zkTLS with Confidential Proving Delegation

We're excited to announce our collaboration with Reclaim Protocol, which empowers users to port their Web2 credentials to Web3 while preserving privacy. This integration will bring significant performance improvements for applications like 3Jane, built on Reclaim.

Privacy-preserving applications often come with UX trade-offs, especially due to the cost and latency of proof generation. Fermah’s Confidential Proving Delegation (CPD) addresses this challenge by enabling fast, confidential proof generation without compromising user experience.

Enabling Private zkTLS

Reclaim enables users to bring their Web2 credentials into the Web3 ecosystem securely and privately. Through CPD,  Fermah offers a way for fast, cheap,  and confidential proof generation optimized for zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs).

Together, we're making it viable to scale privacy-native apps to this scale of the internet without compromising on speed or confidentiality.

The 3Jane Example

Let’s look at the practical implications of integrating Fermah and Reclaim by diving into an application that leverages our combined powers, 3Jane.

3Jane is the first credit-based money market built on Base, offering instant, trustless, and permissionless lines of credit to crypto users. It underwrites based on both on-chain assets and verifiable off-chain data, including Coinbase balances, bank cash flows, and credit scores.

By integrating Reclaim, 3Jane validates proofs of access to Web2 platforms like Credit Karma and Plaid. With Fermah's CPD, Reclaim can delegate confidentiality to our network, ensuring:

• Significant performance improvements
• Elimination of the need for end-users to generate proofs locally
• Private delegation of generation tasks

CPD’s Performance Impact & Why It Matters

Integrating Confidential Proving Delegation (CPD) from Fermah into Reclaim is poised to deliver more than marginal gains. It sets the stage for a new performance ceiling in privacy-first applications.

Let’s Look at Numbers:

• Proof generation times are expected to drop from minutes to seconds, cutting wait times and removing the lag traditionally tied to privacy-preserving workflows.
• End-user compute costs will fall dramatically, with all proving seamlessly offloaded to Fermah’s universal proof market.
• User experience will feel indistinguishable from traditional Web2 apps — fast, seamless, and intuitive, with no added friction.
• Throughput will scale significantly, making it practical for high-volume applications to go fully privacy-native without bottlenecks.
• Developer overhead will shrink. Teams won’t need to manage complex prover infrastructure or wrestle with complex ZK tooling.

Privacy has typically come at the cost of UX or developer complexity. CPD eliminates both. It makes privacy-native flows feel just as fast and effortless as centralized services, but without compromising on trust or decentralization. 

This is the kind of infrastructure Web3 needs if privacy is ever going to be the default.

What’s Next

CPD is now integrated with Reclaim, allowing developers to easily toggle on confidential proof delegation. We're working on expanding this integration across various applications, wallets, and infrastructure providers to offer users private-by-default experiences.

Join Us!

If you're building with Reclaim, integrate CPD today. If you're developing your own proving workflows, let's discuss how CPD can enhance your application's privacy and performance.

Just fill out this form, and our team will get in touch with you!

Together, let’s bring privacy to the masses!