2025 is coming to an end. Looking back on this year, if we compare the evolution of Web3 to a long-term battle for "digital sovereignty," what we initially saw was just the transfer of financial assets—until protocols like APRO matured, and the war truly reached the most critical battleground: who gets to set the price of data.

Honestly, our approach to data has always been distorted. It's like how we treat exhaled carbon dioxide—it's a byproduct of life, but we've never thought it was valuable, so we let it drift freely in the network. And what happened? Those big internet companies are like equipped with super air compressors, freely sucking up this "waste gas," processing and purifying it, then selling it to advertisers and AI models for huge profits. It wasn't until I encountered APRO that I realized: every interaction on the chain, every increase in social weight, even every decision in decentralized prediction markets—these are not waste gases—they are, in fact, untapped "digital crude oil."

Therefore, the significance of APRO lies in transforming oracles from mere "information carriers" into "data refineries."

From a technical perspective, APRO breaks the traditional black-box operation of oracles. It introduces a new mechanism called "verifiable data ownership." Now, in 2025, an era of explosive growth in AI agents, high-quality, authentic data with intent labels has become the most scarce resource. APRO uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) to enable users to prove to buyers that their data is genuine and substantial without revealing privacy. It’s like...