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A Vietnamese payment wallet built into Zalo, the country's main messaging app, so paying happens inside something people already have open.

What you already know this as

Payments bolted onto a messaging network, the pattern that made WeChat Pay work in China.

Zero-knowledge proof

also called ZK proof

A way to prove something is true without revealing what sits behind it: that you are over 18 without showing your date of birth, or that a batch of transactions is valid without publishing every one of them.

What you already know this as

Proving you meet a lending criterion without handing over your full statement. Banking has wanted this for years and still mostly cannot do it.

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