If you're headed to @EFDevcon this week, mark these events down! Our co-founder @Zac_Aztec is speaking at multiple events across a variety of privacy-oriented topics. 🧵👇 First, catch Zac @IBWofficial mainstage on November 2, discussing onchain finance!

Privacy is a fundamental human right. Yet no network delivers permissionless, programmable, self custodial privacy, with formal verification and post quantum security. Most projects are compromises dressed up as solutions: private payments without programmability, privacy layers hostage to someone else's governance, "privacy" chains with invite lists and emergency decryption keys. All compromises which lead to dead ends. This matters more than ever. AI will supercharge surveillance and widen the divide between those with access to frontier intelligence and those without. Financial sovereignty has never been more important. what does a solution look like? A permissionless privacy network from day zero: programmable, formally verified, and built for the post quantum post AI era. And most important of all, lean. Lean from an engineering standpoint, lean from a bureaucracy standpoint, and lean from a Lean4 standpoint. Any serious attempt must be uncompromisingly cypherpunk. Lean, fast moving, zero bureaucracy and resistant to political capture. Its principles cannot be sacrificed for funding, convenience, short term adoption, or the whims of some VC. when it comes to privacy, censorship resistance, and sovereignty, even a minor compromise is a complete compromise. When did the blockchain industry become so afraid to build cypherpunk technology? So afraid to go against the grain and build something genuinely bold? Somewhere along the way, compromises became the norm, and what could have been great became mediocre.