DC Privacy Summit 2025
who it's for
privacy technologists, blockchain developers, policymakers, compliance officers, privacy advocates, security analysts, product managers
topics
zero-knowledge proofs; multi-party computation (MPC); homomorphic encryption; on-chain privacy mechanisms; privacy-preserving wallets; device-bound credentials; verifiable credentials and attestations; AML and KYC reform for crypto; cryptocurrency forensic tracing; decentralized mixers and tumbler analysis; private compute layers with policy engines; digital identity and mobile driver's licenses
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| You Underestimate Modern Cryptography | Arnaud Schenk | 10m |
Cryptography shifts from ideological roots to market-driven development, and modern zero-knowledge tooling that Aztec builds scales from tens to about 5,000… | ||
| The Coming Privacy Forest Fire—and How to Fight It | Matthew Green | 19m |
Predicts a rapid privacy collapse driven by three concrete forces: widespread data collection already stored in huge data centers, AI scanning of encrypted… | ||
| The Limits of Technology in Achieving Privacy | Neha Narula | 12m |
Explains that cryptography like zero-knowledge proofs, MPC and homomorphic encryption can prove computations without revealing raw data but cannot verify data… | ||
| Financial Privacy & Blockchain Regulation | Hester Peirce | 26m |
Argues that Americans have effectively lost financial privacy because intermediaries and the private sector routinely hand data to government, and that new… | ||
| How to Fight the Lazarus Group | Mike Orcutt, Casey G., Michael Mosier | 42m |
Panel describes how North Korea’s Lazarus Group used Tornado Cash and other rails to move 1.4 billion in the Biyt/Bybit theft, traces funds with forensic firms… | ||
| Fireside Chat: Why I’m Suing the DOJ | Michael Lewellen | 20m |
A lawsuit against DOJ challenges the use of unlicensed money‑transmission theory from the Tornado Cash and Samurai Wallet prosecutions and seeks a court ruling… | ||
| Hazy with a Chance of Privacy: A Weather Report for Crypto Policy | Peter Van Valkenburgh | 22m |
U.S. crypto privacy landscape mixes progress and risk: prosecutors win convictions of wallet and mixer developers despite those developers lacking control of… | ||
| The Privacy Trilemma | Wei Dai | 16m |
Claim: on-chain financial privacy cannot simultaneously deliver maximal usefulness, self-sovereign privacy, and threat resistance. Public blockchains need… | ||
| What ZK Can—and Can’t—Do for You | Justin Thaler, Abhi Shelat | 37m |
Zero-knowledge SNARKs power a privacy layer in Google Wallet that runs on phone and proves attributes like age without sending ID photos; credentials are… | ||
| How to Avoid a Dystopian Digital ID System | Ying Tong, Ying Tong Lai, Amal Ibraymi, Aisling Connolly | 34m |
Critique centers on a proposed EU wallet design that uses salted-hash linkability, which makes repeated presentations linkable and mirrors some US mobile… | ||
| What the GENIUS Act Could Mean for Privacy and AML | Ross Schulman, Ian Miers, Laz Piper | 39m |
Treasury RFI from August 18 (mandated by the Genius Act Section 109) asks about APIs, AI, blockchain and digital identity; 114 comments exist and the public… | ||
| The Year Is 2030: What Does On-Chain Privacy and Compliance Look Like? | Remi Gai, Nikhil Raghuveera | 28m |
Panel argues concrete roadmap: encryption layers (Inco) plus on‑chain policy engines (Predicate) combine ZK, MPC, FHE and TE so systems use private compute… | ||
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