TL;DR — Pluto’s Web Proofs SDK will be publicly available on Friday, February 14. Read below for more on Web Proofs and Pluto’s mission.
Our Mission
Pluto’s mission is to commoditize trust and empower everyone to build sovereign economies. We will do so while shipping useful intermediate products.
Concretely, this mission means that we are building fast, low-cost, easily-programmable proofs of data provenance. These proofs are key to solving broader problems, such as data portability, identity verification, and reputation formation. Extending this technology, we are building infrastructure for adding many forms of powerful on-device cryptography to internet applications.
Our first step down that path is Web Proofs, which is accessible through our SDK. Web Proofs are proofs of arbitrary data served to end users by any internet server. This verifiable data from any internet source gives application developers the tools to create novel and useful applications.
The Pluto Web Proofs SDK will be publicly available for integration on Friday, February 14.
Web Proofs
The various techniques for creating Web Proofs unlock verifiable access to existing Web2 data sources. Techniques like TEEs, Origo, or MPC bring external data sources — like data that comes from Uber, Shopify, your banking provider, an attested sensor, an e-mail client, or any other internet server — into a form that any application developer can use.
Web Proofs can enable applications marketplaces (with bootstrapped identity and reputation), sybil-resistance tools (reputation products built off of previously-silo’d data), social groups (groups that share a commonality like employment at a certain company), gray markets (video game marketplaces, marketplaces for the secure sharing of potential software exploits, secondary ticketing marketplaces), and more robust peer-to-peer interactions (onchain Craiglist, but with proofs of reputation or prior positive interactions).
Web Proofs are a huge step towards improving the programmability of cryptography for application developers.
The Pluto Team
Pluto is built by a small team of experienced product, engineering, and operating leaders from places like Stripe, Hubspot, Uber, and Aztec.
We’ve built products in crypto for the past several years and we understand the pain points developers face when interfacing with advanced cryptography. Now, we’re building tools that abstract away the complexity of applied cryptography to help developers create the next generation of useful applications.
We’re backed by some of the most thoughtful, experienced investors in crypto, including Geometry, Variant, Nascent, Figment Capital, and many others who have helped get us to this first launch.
The SDK
We’ve built an SDK that makes it easy to incorporate Web Proofs into applications. Developers can use our SDK to generate Web Proofs on-demand. We’ve also built our SDK to enable easy custom integrations so that any target domain can be used to generate Web Proofs.
Pluto’s code is open-source, and we welcome contributions.