OpenEden:- A rewards campaign in blockchain and crypo industy is crucial for its structured initiative designed to incentivize specific user behaviors. These rewards can range from airdrops such as the ongoing airdrop of 100 million ES tokens by Eclipse Foundation to staking rewards, liquidity mining, referral bonuses or governance rewards. However, they still continue to run opaque.
In a major step to bring transparency in how rewards program function, OpenEden has partnered with Brevis, a leading zero-knowledge infrastructure provider. By Q3, the RWA firm will leverage ZK tech to launch a fully verifiable, on-chain rewards engine for its ecosystem participants.
This collaboration introduces a first-of-its-kind system where contributors to the OpenEden protocol – whether liquidity providers or governance participants – can receive rewards transparently. Using the zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography, OpenEden believes that the rewards program will run more securely, and efficiently.
What the OpenEden Partnership Aims to Change
Brevis is a ZK infrastructure company which has developed the zkCoprocessor – a trustless engine for verifying off-chain data. It recently raised $7.5 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital and Binance Labs, positioning itself as a key middleware player for protocols that need off-chain computation with on-chain security.
It allows smart contracts to query, compute, and verify external and historical blockchain data using zero-knowledge proofs. Its zkCoprocessor is already being used by Usual, LayerZero partners, and next-gen DeFi platforms.
As part of the partnership, OpenEden will use ZK-Powered Rewards Engine which integrates Brevis’s zkCoprocessor technology. In its upcoming rewards program, this engine will calculate and distribute OpenEden’s native $EDEN tokens to users, based on their on-chain activity.
The zkCoprocessor collects snapshots of user behavior – such as liquidity provision, governance voting, and token locking – over time and processes this data off-chain. This system then generates verifiable cryptographic or zero knowledge-proofs which is submitted on-chain, certifying that the reward distribution matches the verified data. It ensures that rewards are computed fairly and accurately without compromising user privacy or decentralization.
This is in contrast to the conventional crypto rewards programs, which often rely on off-chain data pipelines or opaque internal logic.
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Are ZK-Based Reward Distribution Programs the Future
OpenEden’s initiative comes as the traditional on‑chain reward mechanisms continue to suffer from key issues. Calculating complex eligibility and reward‑shares entirely on‑chain does incur “astronomical” gas fees and slow confirmations. This ends up often making deep, continuous reward schemes economically impractical.
Infact, many current programs still rely on off‑chain scripts, spreadsheets or centralized back‑office processes to tabulate user activity and distribute rewards. This ends up introducing points of failure, potential errors, and opaqueness about how rewards were calculated and undermines user confidence.
Further, On‑chain contracts can’t easily prove non‑existence (e.g. that a user did not interact with a protocol), nor can they handle large‑scale data without prohibitive costs. Zero‑knowledge proofs can enable projects like OpenEden to verify user actions and non‑actions off‑chain. This is all without revealing raw transaction details, along with the then published succinct proofs on‑chain.
Thus, by integrating Brevis’s zkCoprocessor SDK and CPI framework, OpenEden is offloading heavy computation to a low‑cost, verifiable off‑chain environment.
However, ZK‑powered reward programs are still very much a nascent niche with only a handful of pioneers having launched them so far. OpenEden’s step can further scale and stimulate other web3 projects too to follow the same.
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