Here's what's been quietly coming together: 1. Stealth addresses - so transfers doesn't trace back to you. 2. @0xprivacypools - so shielded money stays provable and compliant. 3. A self custodial wallet - to actually own it. 4. Means to globally buy and spend it. 5. A neobank that forgets what it doesn't need to know.

🍓🫐🥕🥩🥚🍵🧀 Nutritious apps follow a wholesome recipe... -data sovereignty: u own ur data -local-first + open formats -e2e encryption by default -open source, u can audit -right to exit: walk away w/ everything Cleaner ingredients = healthier online diet. Treat urself to better apps and protocols. Ok okkkkiii sometimes it's good to have a bit of fast food.. there I said it 💛

0xbow CEO @nattyfried will be giving a talk this Saturday at @JoinBrewBerlin's Privacy Matters conference as part of @BerBlockWeek 🇩🇪 Come learn why crypto is broken without privacy and what we can do to fix it. June 20th at 15:30, Funkhaus Berlin. Event link below.

The privacy debate in crypto has been stuck for years: mixers enable abuse, while full transparency blocks real adoption. @0xbowio fixes it with Privacy Pools: privacy with compliance built in: > ZK proofs for clean provenance, not concealment > Private DeFi yield + multisig + hardware wallet support (v2 testnet) > Live on Ethereum, expanding to BNB Chain $17M+ in private transactions on v1. A privacy primitive institutions can actually use. Catch 0xbow at EASY Residency S3 Demo Day.

If you're in Naples this weekend for @ctrlshift_xyz, make sure to catch @0xmikemcc's talk "Onchain Privacy in the Future" on June 14th at 11:20am on Parthenope Stage. 0xbow will also be sponsoring a $500 prize pool for the ctrl/shift hackathon. Come build on @0xprivacypools v2.

Privacy does not scale if users have to think like privacy power users. Our north star for @0xprivacypools v2 is embedded privacy: wallets, neobanks, crypto cards, and the broader app layer on Ethereum and beyond. Thank you @castle_labs for the conversation with @0xmikemcc.

Privacy is normal It is no longer just a cypherpunk ideology. It’s becoming necessary onchain infrastructure for both user protection and institutional adoption. Crypto has always had a financial privacy problem. Public blockchains made finance auditable, but they also made financial behaviour permanently observable. Wallet balances, counterparties, payroll, treasury movements, order flow, strategy, liquidations, swaps, transfers. All of it is part of a public data trail. As chain analytics and AI make that data cheaper to process, an open, transparent ledger starts to look like surveillance infrastructure. Usable privacy in crypto cannot just mean hiding everything from everyone; that much is clear. The more realistic path is selective disclosure: systems that can hide sensitive information from the public while allowing users, institutions, auditors, and regulators to prove specific facts when required. We had the chance to sit down with @0xmikemcc from @0xprivacypools, one of the Ethereum-aligned protocols building in the post-Tornado Cash era, to discuss how they are approaching the landscape. Mike framed the protocol’s V1 as “an MVP to test whether there was demand for compliant privacy.” The early numbers are modest: roughly $20m in volume and around 5,000 individual deposits, but the team is keen to get V2 out and begin a new wave of growth. Privacy Pools aims to preserve user privacy while preventing addresses linked to exploits, scams, or hacks from using the pool to privately break the onchain link. The protocol also allows each user to share their transaction record with others for reporting and compliance purposes. On legal liability for privacy protocols, Mike said the team “looked at the Roman and Alexey lawsuits and took every point they were indicted on, then modified our protocol to mitigate that indictment point.” For a protocol like Privacy Pools to grow, it needs distribution, and more importantly, distribution that feels seamless. Privacy does not scale if users have to leave their wallet, open a separate app, pay extra, and think like a privacy power user. Privacy Pools V2 is being built with the opposite in mind: embedded privacy through wallets, bridges and transaction surfaces. Mike’s north star is simple: deprecate Privacy Pools’ own front end, and let regular, everyday interfaces route the traffic. This aligns with our recent report’s broader conclusion: privacy is no longer only about hiding transactions. It is becoming a requirement for usable financial infrastructure. The first wave of crypto privacy was ideological. The next one is practical.

Private stablecoins are already here, There’s now 50k BOLD in @0xprivacypools, making it the third-largest stablecoin in the system. Use the most decentralized stablecoin, and protect your privacy.

Onchain privacy keeps running into the same objection: what about bad actors? Live from the Breakout Stage: @ameensol of @0xbowio on building compliant privacy that protects everyday users and still deters abuse.