Privacy is becoming a core part of onchain finance. Join @kostascrypto and @abhinavg6 for the next Nerding Out session on confidential transfers. Why privacy matters, the cryptography behind it, and what it unlocks for builders. 🗓️ July 2 • 10 AM PT

The Privacy Frontier: ZK meets TEE Most privacy panels explain why privacy matters, this one is two builders comparing the opposite bets they made. With @MayaDotan_ (StarkWare) and @AlexAuroraDev (NEAR), moderated by @jessiexiao_eth. Tomorrow, 1:00 PM GMT. Hosted on @Starknet.

Wall Street is buying privacy from a brokerage account. The market is finally admitting what cypherpunks have said for 30 years: money that everyone can watch is money that can be used against you. But there is a question nobody in this trade is asking. Where is the private dollar? Because you don't live in ZEC. You live in DOLLARS. You save in dollars, you pay in dollars, you measure your life in dollars. And every dollar onchain today is the opposite of private. Every balance is a public record, sitting under an issuer who can freeze it with one transaction. We built digital cash, then handed it a surveillance camera and a kill switch. fxUSD is the answer to that question. It's the first stablecoin that can be minted privately on Ethereum. Through @RAILGUN_Project and @anondotinc, your ETH goes in shielded and your dollars come out shielded. No visible minter. No public position. No issuer who can freeze it. Hold it, send it, put it to work in DeFi, and never step back into the open. A dollar that is yours the way cash is yours. And it lives on the one chain that has actually been through the fire. A nation state sanctioned privacy code on Ethereum. Developers were arrested. Everyone said privacy on Ethereum was finished. The sanctions were thrown out. The code never stopped running. Not for a single block. That's what a real privacy test looks like. Not a price chart. A government trying to switch it off, and failing. Ethereum passed it. fxUSD is built on top of it. You don't have to sell your ETH. You don't have to leave Ethereum. You don't have to choose between privacy and a dollar you can actually use. The market just figured out that privacy matters. The private dollar is already here.

MemoMind One doesn't just say privacy matters, it hands you the controls. 🔒 From knowing your voice apart from everyone else's in the room to giving you windows where nothing is captured at all, this is what privacy looks like. #SmartGlasses# #WearableAI# #TechPrivacy#

Robbie asks Venice Co-founder Teana Baker-Taylor why privacy matters for open source AI models: "The other thing that I think worries me a little bit with the non open source models that are continually evolving, and you don't know what state that is evolving, the responses that you get, we've all had the response were like, it's just flat out. I'm not gonna answer that question for you, which is a bit weird, right? You're like, why?"

Weekends are for philosophy The ClawFather @steipete has spoken 🦞 Model choice matters. Privacy matters more. A slick demo doesn’t earn Zuck the keys to my inbox, files and accounts. Open source isn’t automatically private. But I want control over my data, not another “trust us” from Meta.

In this interview, we sit down with @GiraeffleAeffle to discuss ZK Loyalty, a platform that helps small businesses reward repeat customers through anonymous, privacy-first loyalty programs. We cover: 🔹Why privacy matters for loyalty programs. 🔹How zero-knowledge proofs and FHE power ZK Loyalty. 🔹Cross-merchant loyalty programs. 🔹Digital identity and selective disclosure.