Privacy

Worldcoin-related activity currently makes up 43% of activity on Optimism, a Dune dashboard suggests

Code for the Orb’s main application and private key storage were released with some redactions

FHE differs from zero-knowledge technology, as it can perform computation on top of encrypted data without revealing data points

Worldcoin told Blockworks it was given “little recourse” other than filing a suit

Worldcoin must cease collecting and processing personal data in Spain, according to a press release Wednesday

Blockchain transparency is making Web3 the surveillance tool it was meant to free societies from

Freedom Tool will enable citizens to organize anonymous elections in a trustless way

But total privacy is not the answer — DAOs need a combination of transparency and selective private governance to succeed

2024 could be the year for privacy applications to cross over to non-crypto internet users

OKX will be delisting the top three privacy coins next week

After the destruction caused by a typhoon, the reality of sending money to my family in the Philippines was a fee-heavy and delay-filled nightmare

They may use different cryptographic techniques, but all privacy-centric L2s hope to be the first on Ethereum

The first mainnet version of Nocturne has limited functionality, but more features are in the works

Privacy enabling zero-knowledge functionality needn’t be limited to layer-2 and could be applied to Ethereum’s base layer, research shows

The Ritual platform is set to launch in early 2024

PPOI builds off Vitalik Buterin’s paper on Privacy Pools, but at a protocol level

zPass is based on a research paper on “zk-creds” designed to use zero knowledge for age verification

The latest functionality to join the DePIN stack is written in Rust and will allow developers to compute encrypted data

The DeFi industry is not living up to the expectations of Web3 builders or regulators

The Fairblock team has recently secured $2.5 million from investors to bring conditional encryption to blockchains

The Tornado Cash story tells us that Web3 users want privacy and regulators want compliance — but there’s a way to have both

Aztec co-founders note that a developer testnet will likely be launched next year

Manta Pacific is built using OP stack and will rely on Celestia for data availability

Privacy Pools may be a way to find an equilibrium between privacy and regulation