Privacy should advance as fast as intelligence. OpenAI Private Intelligence gives businesses stronger controls over their data while using our most capable models. We’re building these protections in close collaboration with some of our largest customers to help businesses apply frontier AI to their most sensitive work.

Privacy organizations, there are two ways to back Web3Privacy Now. Support the core: fund the people and infrastructure behind the work. Membership: go deeper into the ecosystem. Talk to us:

Privacy is becoming an important discussion in blockchain. Public verification doesn't always mean every detail needs to be publicly visible. $ZEC → Privacy-focused digital currency $XMR → Privacy-oriented payments secret:native → Privacy-enabled smart contracts $ROSE → Oasis privacy and confidential computing ecosystem $MINA → Lightweight blockchain design using zero-knowledge proofs $ZK → ZK-related Ethereum scaling ecosystem $STRK → Starknet scaling infrastructure aleph-zero:native → Privacy-oriented blockchain technology $DASH → Digital payments with optional privacy features $RAIL → Privacy-focused DeFi infrastructure 🟢 Why watch the sector? • Zero-knowledge technology has multiple applications. • Privacy can matter for financial transactions. • Confidential computing may support new use cases. 🔴 Things to watch: • Regulatory uncertainty • Usability and adoption • Technical complexity • Real demand for privacy features My take: Privacy technology has applications beyond hiding transactions. The challenge is making it useful, secure, and accessible. Which privacy project has the most interesting technology?

privacy sector circulating mcap went from ~$13.1b to ~$32.6b in 180 days. that's +149%. zcash:native alone is roughly 63% of the entire market now. i don't think this is just a flash in the pan hype cycle. ethereum:0xa12cc123ba206d4031d1c7f6223d1c2ec249f4f3 and DTCC are showing up on the same open transaction layer as @FireblocksHQ, which is the kind of setup institutions actually need if they're going to move size onchain without leaking their strategies. my take is privacy is going to be a required infrastructure for institutional adoption. without it i'm skeptical you get hundreds of millions of institutional capital onchain in a serious way.

Privacy is the next product-market fit in DeFi. Fresh addresses, nobody knowing who supplies the liquidity, NEAR's confidential layer underneath. That's what @rhea_finance is building with Noir.

Privacy is essential for banks moving financial operations onchain. But how do institutions protect sensitive data while still giving regulators, auditors and security teams the access they need? @matterlabs co-founder and CEO @gluk64 explains why existing privacy solutions have fallen short and how zero-knowledge proofs could help institutions maintain control over their data without sacrificing oversight. Thank you to @Grayscale for sponsoring the CoinDesk Media Network.

privacy coins are a $78B sector rn. $ZEC alone: $19.6B $XMR: $10.3B $NEAR: $6.5B meanwhile the #1# privacy protocol by revenue on defillama, ahead of tornado and railgun, is $MASK. at ~$45M. that's 0.06% of the sector. zec is ~430x bigger. not saying it gets there. but one of these numbers looks very wrong.

Privacy season is here, and it’s in Bloom. On-chain, everyone’s watching the chart. The smart ones are making sure nobody’s watching them. Private swaps with @BloomTrading