Applications of EZEE

Building the Ghost Layer

EZEE is Silent Protocol’s patent-pending framework that enables composable privacy, allowing users to update arbitrary smart contracts in a privacy-preserving manner. It authorizes users to access the system’s global shared state while facilitating private state transitions within the system.

Silent Protocol builds the Ghost Layer, a modular Layer 1.5 based on the EZEE framework, which serves as the encryption layer. The Ghost Layer enables users to store and transfer assets securely and privately across the blockchain. Embedded with a module that connects to the execution layer via 0dapps and EZEE Signals, it allows users to access existing applications in a privacy-preserving manner without fragmenting their network effect. By eliminating the dependency on encrypted inputs for end contracts, EZEE enables users to interact natively with contracts through individual execution silos, or 0dapps.

In Silent Protocol, 0dapps encapsulate end applications within the execution layer. Users can operate from the Ghost Layer (Silent Protocol’s encryption layer), where they segregate their primary account state to create secondary accounts tailored to specific 0dApps. Through 0dApps, Silent Protocol provides metadata and network-level privacy while users interact with target applications. For the first time, 0dApps allow users to interface with applications without generating ZK proofs, retaining privacy and creating an economical zero-knowledge execution environment for anonymous smart contract calls. Silent Protocol supports multiple 0dApps running concurrently, enabling users to aggregate their states back into the Ghost Layer using EZEE Signals.

Silent Protocol brings privacy to public blockchains. For example, users can interact with applications like MakerDAO using a secondary account, open a vault, and consolidate $DAI into their primary Silent account in a privacy-preserving manner—without creating ZK proofs. Through EZEE, Silent Protocol achieves fully composable privacy, allowing arbitrary end contracts to be accessed via 0dApps while enabling these contracts to interact with a shared state. This framework supports a wide range of applications, including privacy-preserving cross-chain swapping, anonymous NFT trading, and anonymous derivative trading.