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Why does rotating a compromised wallet erase my entire on-chain history?

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機会

When a private key is leaked or lost, the only safe move is to abandon the address, but every piece of on-chain reputation, governance votes, lending history, and attestations stays with the old key. Moving those records to a new address requires publishing the link publicly, which permanently deanonymizes both addresses. Existing ZK identity schemes handle fresh anonymity sets but not migration of accumulated history between pseudonyms. A 2025 arXiv survey of decentralized identity systems identified key recoverability as one of the two dominant unsolved properties across all major DID methods. No production primitive exists that lets a user prove continuity to a new address under zero-knowledge while keeping the link between old and new private.

重要な理由

Without a safe migration primitive, key rotation is practically impossible for anyone with meaningful on-chain history, which means compromised keys stay active far longer than they should.

機会をどう評価するか

Opportunity Scoreは測定値ではなく、私自身の見解です。どれほど痛みを伴うか、どれほど頻繁に影響を与えるか、そして今日時点で解決策がいかに少ないか。スコアが高いほど、構築する価値が高いと私は考えています。

深刻度9/10

それが現れたときにどれほどの痛みをもたらすか。

頻度6/10

実際にどれほど頻繁に人々がそれに直面するか。

ホワイトスペース9/10

今日時点で、それに対する優れたツールがいかに少ないか。

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