EthSystems, a startup spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is betting that privacy, not scalability, is the biggest obstacle preventing institutions from moving financial activity onto public blockchains. The company, which emerged from the Ethereum Foundation’s Institutional Privacy Task Force, is building confidentiality infrastructure for banks, asset managers and governments looking to […]
In Utah, which passed State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) legislation, Cardano Foundation-built Veridian has already shown that digital identity can be delivered in a privacy-preserving way, allowing users to prove that they are over or under a specific age without exposing any other data. It’s a working model of what responsible verification can look like and […]
For years, privacy in transacting was one of crypto’s most ambitious promises. Then it took a back seat as other trends took off. As developers focused on scaling blockchains and regulators scrutinized privacy tools such as Tornado Cash, much of the industry’s attention shifted elsewhere. But a new Ethereum proposal and a growing number of […]