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Morning Edition · Friday, October 2, 2026Published at 2:09 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project Ship zkAPI, Letting Users Pay for Metered Services Without an Identity
Credits sit in an Ethereum mainnet vault and spending is authorized by a zero-knowledge proof, so the payment layer never learns which requests were made and the service never learns who paid.
The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project have released zkAPI, a protocol that separates payment from identity for metered application programming interfaces (APIs). A user deposits ETH or USDC into an Ethereum vault contract o…
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