Kaito Launches Pulse Plugin, Sparking Privacy Debate

The real fault line here is not the plugin itself but the trade-off it embodies: verifying on-chain behavior against social identity requires collecting data that many users consider invasive, and zkTLS is being offered as the technical answer to that tension. Kaito's founder defending data minimization suggests the company sees the privacy critique as an existential adoption risk, not just a PR problem. Whether zkTLS verification can actually satisfy skeptics without undermining the authenticity guarantees the plugin promises is the open question.