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zkTLS could help bootstrap buyer / seller reputation on new marketplaces:

Issue - new marketplaces have a cold start problem with listings *and* reputation; it’s hard to know if buyers actually intend to purchase, and hard to know if sellers will actually ship the product

Proposed solution:

1. Use zkTLS to verify buyer/seller reputation from other marketplaces

2. Show buyer / seller quality on profile

3. Boost listings from verified sellers + outreach from verified buyers

4. Help new participants earn reputation for positive sum activity (listing items people want, paying or shipping quickly, etc)

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Afaik, most marketplaces don't offer this via API (which is why I assumed zkTLS would be a solution)

But @web3pm got me thinking about this more deeply - seems like I don’t need exact analogs, and can figure out other indirect ways of proving "quality seller" or "quality buyer"

do you actually need zkTLS here or can you get it from another marketplace’s API already?

same for actually buying & actually selling, there are probably other ways to verify 

@web3pm and @tayyab are the real zkTLS heads at icebreaker heheh so curious their POV

also @connor-martin building something in the marketplace area and was in seed club s7

cc @j4ck.eth @eulerlagrange have either of you explored this?

Would love any feedback / pick apart holes in my thinking

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cc @les assume using a zkTLS library then zkTLS is an integration/implementation not exploration

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