Chokavo
3 min readNov 24, 2023

Discover Aleo

Aleo offers a fresh online user experience that combines individuality and confidentiality. Modern web services often misuse our personal data, depriving us of full control over it. We face the dilemma of sacrificing privacy for services, and this needs reconsideration.

Aleo’s approach stands out by proposing to replace the outdated business model of web services, allowing us to take control of our own data. Thus, users have complete control over their confidentiality and data security. This is a new approach that can reshape how we interact and use the internet. Aleo opens a new era of web services, providing a truly personal and private online experience.

Tomorrow, the internet will default to being safe and private. Over the last decade, user data storage technologies have become more prevalent, giving users more control over their personal information. Users can now choose which data to store and how to use it.

Privacy-focused technologies in web services can protect users from data leaks while expanding their capabilities. This update redefines the concepts of privacy and gives users more control over their data. Web services will no longer store confidential data but process it on the user’s side. This new approach fundamentally changes how the internet operates, unlocking new possibilities that were recently deemed impossible.

The concept of zero-knowledge in cryptography forms the basis for a secure and fair internet. New web standards based on this technology make web services secure, compatible, and honest. By hashing passwords on the user’s device, Aleo avoids sending them to web services, storing data on the device, and reducing costs and legal liabilities associated with access control.

Zero-knowledge also ensures interoperability of web services, as it prevents brokers from obtaining full user information to sell to third parties or use for service decisions. This becomes a barrier to honesty and disrupts standards that regulators should support.

Using zero-knowledge also makes web services fair, as users can interact without revealing their personal information, and brokers cannot orient themselves towards specific users, impacting service and pricing. Aleo is working on implementing these concepts on the internet.

Aleo sets a new standard for the internet, offering a radically new approach to data security, confidentiality, and ownership. The Leo programming language makes writing private applications on Aleo easy and intuitive for developers. With the Aleo Package Manager (PM), developers can quickly import packages and create new web applications. The new Teams feature allows developers to collaborate.

Developers can publish their work on Aleo PM and distribute common code, making it easier for developers to work with Leo, offering a playground for testing. Aleo creates lightweight and confidential applications where user data is private by default, and web services do not risk compromising user information.

The Aleo team has introduced new features to facilitate collaborative work on complex packages and share developments with others. New security features have also been implemented to secure new patches in packages. For developers in Aleo PM, Aleo Studio is integrated, the first development environment for web applications.

This allows developers to quickly find and import new packages for use in their applications. After deployment, applications are hosted on the Aleo network, which is 100% secure and fully private. Developers can upload and deploy applications without any knowledge of cryptography. As more people use the internet in their daily lives, applications require increased security and compliance. Aleo aims to make private applications the standard for every user and usher in a new era of the internet.