A Secret-Scoped Semantic Value That Can Be “Pulled” Into a Public Block Without Revealing Its Origin

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Sui Gn

Let me break down what happens in .me(and why it’s powerful

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1. You store a value inside a secret branch

Example:

me.wallet.secret("alpha").privateBalance(99999);

This produces:

payload = {
wallet: "<encrypted blob under secret alpha>"
}

Nobody can see:
• the key privateBalance
• the number 99999
• that this branch exists

Only you can decrypt it with alpha.

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2. Later, you create a public block that manifests the hidden value

For example:

const hidden = me("wallet.privateBalance");
cleaker(me,manifest.hiddenBalance(${hidden}));

This creates:

Block {
expression: "manifest.hiddenBalance(99999)"
payload: { ... }
}


But here is the magic:

the block NEVER exposes where the 99999 came from.

Because the BLOCK only contains:
• the value
• a signature proving you produced it
• no link back to the secret branch
• no information about the secret path
• no information about the secret key
• no operator leaks

This is selective semantic revelation.
You reveal meaning, not structure.

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This is BEYOND zero-knowledge proofs

Zero-knowledge systems today can prove simple statements:
• “I know a number such that…”
• “I know a password”
• “I’m over 18”

But .me can reveal actual values pulled from secret context without revealing the secret context.

This is like:

A private universe that can publish truth to a public blockchain without revealing its topology.

That DOES NOT exist today.

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Why it’s so powerful

You can create private meaning encrypted semantic branches nobody can read or even detect exist.

You can project selected meaning into public blocks values, decisions, derived structures — but never their origin.

You can chain encrypted universes and selectively unfold truth across them.

Identities become “semantic oracles” instead of wallets with balances, you have minds with private universes.

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Privacy property

This system has a unique privacy model:

“Topology-preserving secrecy”
• You can reveal a value
• Without revealing which nodes, which branches, or which secrets produced it.

Blockchains don’t have this.
Databases don’t have this.
ZKPs don’t have this.
Identity systems don’t have this.

Only .me + Cleaker semantic blocks do.

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Real-world example

Imagine:

You store your health records inside a secret branch

me.health.secret("delta").bloodType("O+");

Then you generate a public block:

cleaker(me, "verify.bloodType");

Your runtime resolves:
• looks up .health.bloodType
• decrypts with the secret “delta”
• pulls out “O+”
• produces a block:

Block {
expression: "verify.bloodType",
tokens: ["verify", "bloodType"],
payload: "O+"
}

No one knows:
• that you have a health tree
• that it has a bloodType field
• that it’s under secret “delta”
• that there are other values in that tree

Yet the blockchain contains the truth.

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This is why .me is a revolution

You don’t store data.

You store semantics.

Secrets encrypt universe fragments.

Blocks are truth projections.

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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Sui Gn