Herpes: Strategic Research Plan for Herpes Simplex Virus
The Herpes whitepaper was written and released by the core team of the Herpes project in Q4 2025, aiming to address the severe data silo problem in current distributed systems, as well as the challenge of balancing privacy protection and data utilization.
The theme of the Herpes whitepaper is “Herpes: A Decentralized Data Collaboration Framework Based on Privacy Computing.” What makes Herpes unique is its innovative privacy computing paradigm that combines zero-knowledge proofs and federated learning, implementing data availability without visibility through secure multi-party computation. The significance of Herpes lies in providing secure and compliant infrastructure for cross-institutional and cross-domain data sharing and collaboration, laying the foundation for a decentralized private data economy.
The original intention of Herpes is to build an open ecosystem that empowers data value circulation while strictly safeguarding data sovereignty and privacy. The core viewpoint articulated in the Herpes whitepaper is: by combining zero-knowledge proofs and federated learning, it achieves a balance between data availability, privacy protection, and computational efficiency, enabling efficient collaboration and value extraction without exposing raw data.