Patent US10970780

Zero-knowledge predictions market
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US10970780

1. A computer-implemented method for trading outcomes of events, comprising: (8) (8)

receiving, at a zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform from a user, a user's personally identifiably information signed with a private key registered with a trusted certificate authority;

generating, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, a unique token associated with the user with a first probabilistically checkable proof (PCP), in which a signature can be validated without revealing the user associated with the unique token;

sending, from the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the unique token that has been generated with the first PCP to the user;

receiving, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, from the user using a zero-knowledge protocol to maintain privacy of the user, each of the unique token associated with the user,

a prediction for an outcome of an event, which is a probability as a number between zero and one hundred percent that supports or opposes that a given event will happen within a stated time period,

a pledged quantity associated with the prediction, wherein the pledge quantity is a reputation unit which is a ranking of a person or business entity;

confirming, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the unique token is signed by the trusted certificate authority and is associated with the user;

in response to confirming the unique token is associated with the user, updating, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the pledge quantity tied to the prediction for the user using zero-knowledge verifiable computing with a second probabilistically checkable proof (PCP);

in response to the updating the pledge quantity tied to the prediction for the user, updating a pooled prediction for the outcome using zero-knowledge verifiable computing;

in response to the updating of the pool prediction for the outcome being successful, sending, by the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform to the user, an acknowledgment using the zero-knowledge protocol with the second PCP attached.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (3)

at least one of dynamically constructing and altering one or more multi-node transient processing pathways between a user device and a computer related device based on receiving the unique token, the prediction, and the pledged quantity from the user, and

wherein for at least one node in each of the one or more transient processing pathways, an address thereof and a time period the at least one node is active and capable of being used is set or changed, based on at least one of an application programming interface type and a data request type implicated by a received packet, and each of the one or more multi-node transient processing pathways comprise a plurality of virtual machines with a variable topology;

in response to the updating of the pool prediction being successful, sending to the user an acknowledgment using the zero-knowledge protocol.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the unique token is selected from the group consisting of a tax identifier, an e-passport, and a private key of a DNS Domain registered with a certificate authority. (0)

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the prediction is a binary option. (1) (0)

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (2)

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (2)

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (1)

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the zero-knowledge verifiable computing is selected from the group consisting of a succinct computational integrity and privacy (SCIP) technique, a succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (zk-snark) technique, and a probabilistically checkable proof (PCP) technique. (0)

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (1)

11. A system for trading outcomes of events, the system comprising: (6) (9)

a memory;

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, where the processor is configured to perform receiving, at a zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform from a user, a user's personally identifiably information signed with a private key registered with a trusted certificate authority;

sending, from the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the unique token that has been generated with the first PCP to the user;

receiving, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, from the user using a zero-knowledge protocol to maintain privacy of the user, each of the unique token associated with the user,

a prediction for an outcome of an event, which is a probability as a number between zero and one hundred percent that supports or opposes that a given event will happen within a stated time period,

a pledged quantity associated with the prediction, wherein the pledge quantity is a reputation unit which is a ranking of a person or business entity;

confirming, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the unique token is signed by the trusted certificate authority and is associated with the user;

in response to the updating the pledge quantity tied to the prediction for the user, updating a pooled prediction for the outcome using zero-knowledge verifiable computing;

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising: (0) (3)

in response to the updating of the pool prediction being successful, sending to the user an acknowledgment using the zero-knowledge protocol.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the unique token is selected from the group consisting of a tax identifier, an e-passport, and a private key of a DNS Domain registered with a certificate authority. (0)

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the prediction is a binary option. (1) (0)

16. The system of claim 11, further comprising: (0) (2)

17. The system of claim 11, further comprising: (0) (2)

18. The system of claim 11, further comprising: (0) (1)

19. A non-transitory computer program product for trading outcomes of events comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to perform: (1) (7)

receiving, at a zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform from a user, a user's personally identifiably information signed with a private key registered with a trusted certificate authority;

sending, from the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the unique token that has been generated with the first PCP to the user;

receiving, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, from the user using a zero-knowledge protocol to maintain privacy of the user, each of the unique token associated with the user,

a prediction for an outcome of an event, which is a probability as a number between zero and one hundred percent that supports or opposes that a given event will happen within a stated time period,

a pledged quantity associated with the prediction, wherein the pledge quantity is a reputation unit which is a ranking of a person or business entity;

confirming, at the zero-knowledge verifiable computing platform, the unique token is signed by the trusted certificate authority and is associated with the user;

in response to the updating the pledge quantity tied to the prediction for the user, updating a pooled prediction for the outcome using zero-knowledge verifiable computing;

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the unique token is one or more of (0) (3)

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Zero-knowledge predictions market

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