Ethereum

Hello Farcaster! My first x-post from Twitter.

Exactly two years ago, I put out an article on privacy in web3. The space has made a lot progress since, and in a way that my article had predicted. Here's a quick recap 👇

Hello Farcaster! My first x-post from Twitter.

Exactly two years ago, I put out an article on privacy in web3. The space has made a lot progress since, and in a way that my article had predicted. Here's a quick recap 👇 

https://wdai.us/posts/navigating-privacy/

My article called for anonymity tools that can directly support smart contract interactions. We have seen more projects in this category, such as 
Nocturne, Railgun, Elusiv and zkFi.

My article called for onchain confidential compute (MOCCA), which can be realized via MPC, threshold FHE or TEEs. There are now numerous projects building on this vision, such as fhEVM by Zama, Inco Network, Fhenix, and Sirrah by Flashbots.

Finally, my next prediction is that alongside trustless onchain anonymity and confidentiality, we will start to see trusted privacy make a comeback, via the form of validiums with private data availability.

I'm excited to keep an eye on the current wave of projects as they get into the hands of users.

There are still a lot of challenges ahead, especially the tension between self-sovereign privacy and compliance-supporting privacy.