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Beldex @BeldexCoin recently published two research pieces, and I think they are interesting to look at together. One is about age verification: you only need to prove you are over 18, without handing over your birthday, identity, and nationality all at once. At the same time, it checks that the credential signature is real, that the age is actually derived from that birthday, that the same number is locked in the commitment, and that this number is not below 18. In the end, the other party only gets one result: you meet the age requirement. This is still research for now. Beldex Research Labs is next trying Bulletproof to make the proof smaller and push verification cost down further. It has not yet become a ready feature in BChat or the wallet. The other is VRF consensus. Beldex's current PoS already has a layer of random validator selection. What VRF aims to add is verifiable randomness: everyone can later verify whether the result of who got selected followed the rules, while before the draw it is harder to predict in advance who the next batch will be. The team currently places the VRF-based PoS hardfork in Q1 2027. This is also a later upgrade, not something already fully switched over on mainnet now. One is dealing with how much identity information should be exposed, and the other is dealing with how randomness in consensus should be proven. These two research lines at Beldex are actually quite consistent in direction: provide enough information, and avoid exposing extra information as much as possible.