Verifiable Internet

The verifiable internet is a broad, aspirational name for an internet in which people and programs can check where data came from, that it has not been altered and that a computation was done correctly, without simply trusting the website or company that supplied it. The phrase is used by several crypto and infrastructure projects rather than defined by a standards body, so its exact meaning varies. The usual building blocks are digital signatures, zero-knowledge proofs, techniques such as zkTLS that prove what a secure website returned, and blockchain oracles that carry checked data onto a chain. Supporters link the idea to fighting deepfakes and checking the output of AI systems. Much of it remains early and experimental. Also see Web3.