Imagine what dApps like Aave will achieve when they have the same privacy guarantees that Web2 finance apps do. Higher.

💡 Wallet privacy isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s mission critical. Alan, RAILGUN - Private & Anonymous DeFi and Ameen Soleimani, Reflexer on why visible balances break finance, how proof of innocence works and what it means for real-world users. Privacy without protecting bad actors 👇

Public blockchains can only support games with fully visible states, such as chess. But the most interesting games require information asymmetry. On Aleo, you can build Battleship, poker, and strategy games. Hidden game state unlocks entirely new categories of on-chain

Here's another huge reason why ZK is going to change the world. Identity in the digital age faces a fundamental paradox: we need to prove things about ourselves without revealing everything about ourselves. ZK technology resolves this paradox elegantly. Consider ZPass, which

I am old enough to remember when people thought Bitcoin was private because it was anonymous. Now they just say its transparency is it's strength. Truth is they love Bitcoin and that's fine. But it's not private and your data is being mined if you use it. Just know that.

Despite $27.6T in stablecoin transfers, less than 0.01% are encrypted. howardwu.aleo 🦁, founder of Provable 🦁 & Aleo believes that privacy is the final frontier for crypto's mainstream adoption. He introduces the first truly private + programmable blockchain with new primitives

By this logic, we should sanction cash, VPNs, encrypted messaging, and Tor because criminals use them too. Code is speech, and sanctioning open-source privacy tools sets a dangerous. Oh, and the US government regularly uses these same tools

Privacy isn't about hiding illegal activity. Beware of those that say it is. It's about preventing: → Competitors analyzing your investment strategies → Employers judging your spending habits → Hackers targeting large wallet holders → Governments tracking dissidents → MEV

Some people understand.

Blockchain without privacy creates a persistent man-in-the-middle vulnerability. Every transaction is visible to observers who can analyze, front-run, or extract value. ZK proofs solve this by allowing computation without revealing sensitive data.

End users of the internet had no clue about the HTTP/HTTPS paradigm. But web devs did, and HTTPS enabled them to create a whole new world of products. That’s why I talk so much about the importance of private smart contracts.

if you don't understand the connection between MEV and private blockchains you're ngmi

Just want to remind everyone who went to ETHCC and everyone who stayed home that public blockchains ARE NOT the end state of crypto.

ZK is about to have its $CRCL moment

don't think many know how incredibly complex the math behind ZK proofs is. When proofs are 1000x more expensive than native, every feature must be carefully optimized. This precision engineering is why building a production-ready zkVM took years.

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no one talks about this so I will: our architectural shift breaks through vitalik.eth trilemma. ZK fundamentally changes blockchain architecture: moving from 'mainframe computing' (shared block time) to 'personal computing' (execute locally, verify globally).