⑦ Future Financial Manifesto

1. Odyssey declares to the future of finance

——An on-chain expedition about assets, sovereignty and freedom

We stand and look out over the ruins of the old financial system.

This is a world divided by high walls:

Liquidity is trapped in an island, ownership relies on power, and value evaporates silently in a centralized black box.

And mankind's ancient desire for freedom is being dragged into the abyss by rusty gears.

But the fire of technology has never been extinguished——

Blockchain tears apart the monopoly of ledgers, smart contracts rewrite the rules of trust, and Web3 returns the scepter to the creator.

At this moment, under the name "Odysseus", we embark on an expedition to the new digital world:

Not patching up old ships, but forging the building blocks of a new continent.

Why "Odyssey"?

Every true rise of freedom in human history is a voyage into unknown waters:

Cryptocurrencies are compasses, free from the mercy of central bank tides;

RWA is the ballast stone that allows the virtual economy to take root in real soil;

Web3 is the sail that captures the storm of global collaboration;

This is not a utopian fantasy, we are already breaking through the waves.

To all sailors

Odyssey is not owned by any giant or country.

It is an ocean of open source, a place where cypherpunks and pragmatists meet:

Developers forge tools, artists define culture, and workers transform flesh and blood into on-chain dignity.

The old gods are dead, and the new continent has no master.

There is only one law that lasts forever:

Freedom does not belong to those who wait to be given, it is taken by those who dare to sail into the abyss.

With the torch of Satoshi Nakamoto, with the courage of Cyberdrift——

Set sail, now, now.

—— Odyssey Protocol Foundation · On the genesis block of ZK-Rollup

Odyssey technical summary

In this article, we provide a comprehensive introduction to Odyssey, a fully decentralized and confidential payment mechanism compatible with Ethereum and other smart contract platforms. Unlike traditional systems, Odyssey is based on a model similar to Ethereum accounts, emphasizing efficiency and user-friendliness. Our new smart contracts maintain encrypted account balances and provide cryptographic proofs for deposits, transfers, and withdrawals of funds.

Odyssey’s key features include optimization of traditional finance and powerful defense against leading scenarios. We have also designed a unique mechanism for seamless interoperability with various smart contracts. This feature extends confidentiality to some mainstream applications such as auctions, payment channels, and autonomous voting systems.

An important advance proposed in this paper is the reconstruction of the social contract in cryptography, which is an improvement over existing zero-knowledge proof systems. Cryptozoology has greater compatibility with social contract protocols, providing a wider range of adaptability and interest.

As an ancient and modern science, cryptography’s influence has long gone beyond the scope of information encryption and is profoundly reshaping the way we understand and construct social contracts. From its initial military and diplomatic uses to now permeating every aspect of digital identity, financial transactions, and even future governance, cryptography is providing humans with unprecedented tools to achieve more secure, transparent, and just social interactions.

The core capability of cryptography is its ability to establish trust in the absence of centralized trust. Through technologies such as hash functions, public key encryption, digital signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs, individuals can verify the integrity, origin, and validity of information without relying on a third party.

We have implemented Odyssey as a smart contract within the Ethereum framework. Our empirical analysis, focusing on the energy consumption of the Odyssey contract, demonstrates the practicality of our design. Additionally, we discuss how minor modifications to existing Ethereum infrastructure, already under independent consideration, could significantly reduce these operating costs.