The Current State of Crypto Privacy Tech
summary
Secret Network builds a private-by-default layer one for smart contracts to let some NFTs and identity data stay encrypted while still enabling selective public reveals; RAILGUN implements a zero-knowledge proof wallet for ERC‑20s that hides balances, sources and destinations and can trade on DEXes from anonymous addresses; utrexo aims to let ordinary users run full nodes cheaply to avoid IP leaks from address lookups; recent work uses homomorphic‑based private information retrieval—CPU‑heavy but low bandwidth—and only ~5% adoption today.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Panelist introductions
- 3:37Privacy in NFTs and metaverse
- 7:48Self-validation in Bitcoin
- 11:38Railgun’s ZK privacy on Ethereum
- 15:10Privacy must be commonplace
- 21:08Digital privacy responsibility
- 23:54Call to action
