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S11 E19: The GenAI Fraud Wave: Why Doc Uploads and PDFs Are Dead and How zkTLS Generates Cryptographic Proof with Madhavan "Maddy" Malolan, Co-Founder & CEO of Reclaim Protocol episode artwork

Sep 30, 2025 23 min

S11 E19: The GenAI Fraud Wave: Why Doc Uploads and PDFs Are Dead and How zkTLS Generates Cryptographic Proof with Madhavan "Maddy" Malolan, Co-Founder & CEO of Reclaim Protocol

from Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders Hosted by Noah Labhart | Podcast for Technical Founders & Startups

Madhavan "Maddy" Malonan has always been in - and around - technology, and fell in love with building things early on. He got a video game console early on, and found it a little boring. BUT, when his Dad got a computer and he played Age of Empires, he got excited about all the possibilities, trying to tinker with building things that mimicked these computer games. Even these days, he writes a lot of code, building side projects with Claude Code. When he's not coding, he's playing sports, primarily tennis. Maddy and his team identified that verification of age, credentials, employment history, etc. was a big, big problem. So much so, that it was difficult to do so in a tamper proof, zero knowledge proof manner. They set out to create a solution - and protocol - to solve this problem. This is the creation story of Reclaim Protocol. Sponsors Full Scale Paddle.com Sema Software PropelAuth Postman Meilisearch Links https://reclaimprotocol.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhavanmalolan/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Our Sponsors:

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