When we launched EthSystems we said each use case needs its own system, designed, specified, and hardened properly, and that someone has to do that work. Our specs site is now public: Starting small: a shielded pool for confidential payments, an attestation-gated profile of it, and the process behind both. Each spec states what the protocol does, what it assumes, and what it guarantees. This means engineers, auditors, and regulators can work from the same document.

We shared a glimpse from the event earlier. Now, catch the full conversation between @motypes and @henrychen_cy of @snzholding on institutional privacy, public Ethereum, and what it will take to bring more financial activity on-chain. Thanks again to SNZ and @ethereumhkhub for the conversation and continued support 🤝🏻

Institutional privacy has to work in the real world: confidentiality, auditability, and policy controls all need to fit together. Excited to work with @0xMiden to explore what that looks like across payments, settlement, stablecoins, and tokenized assets on Ethereum. Looking forward to what we build together 🤝🏻

8/ Our co-founder Mo @motypes spoke at the Asia Onchain Finance Summit in Hong Kong with Henry Chen @henrychen_cy of SNZ, on what changes when institutions move from proofs of concept to real applications. Thanks to the Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub @ethereumhkhub and SNZ @snzholding for the room and the introductions.

Our first community update covers what we've been building since July, starting with rotortree: the Merkle tree behind our shielded pools. We've now released it for others to use, and it's about 450x faster than the library most of the ecosystem runs on. Also in the window: Bankless, the EEA, and two new collaborations.

Happening today in Kuala Lumpur: @motypes, our co-founder & CEO, joins the Institutional Blockchain & Digital Assets Adoption in Practice panel at EVM Institutional Day, alongside Ji Sheng Tan @GamBitMalaysia and Justin Heng @hataglobal, moderated by Rene Bernard @accessmalaysia. At EthSystems, we're building composable privacy for institutions on Ethereum: the confidentiality institutions need, without giving up the benefits of a public ledger. It's a timely discussion as Malaysia's market works through what institutional digital asset adoption looks like following SC and BNM guidance. Thanks to @TeizaProtocol for hosting.

Institutional Ethereum needs both deep privacy research and practical adoption pathways. That is why we are excited to collaborate with @Gateway_eth Gateway has been building toward the institutional orchestrating layer for sovereign onchain finance: controlled environments, interoperability, privacy, access governance, auditability, and production deployment. Together, we will focus on education, frameworks, workshops, case studies, and product pathways that help institutions understand and adopt confidential infrastructure on Ethereum.

We are pleased to join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. As the longstanding organization bridging the Ethereum ecosystem with global enterprises, the EEA plays a critical role in advancing standards, collaboration, and institutional adoption. EthSystems looks forward to contributing our expertise in confidential systems for payments, settlement, tokenized assets, identity, and compliance to support this work.

Excellent article on next phase of fintech and RWAs. Our CEO & CoFounder @motypes was on stage at the Asia Onchain Finance Summit in Hong Kong, discussing how institutions are finally moving from PoCs to real Ethereum applications and why confidential compute is the missing piece for compliance + privacy. Huge thanks to @ethereumhkhub, @snzholding, @BGDA_UK and everyone who made this one of the most substantive institutional RWA gatherings in Asia.

Today we're launching EthSystems. We build confidential systems for institutional Ethereum. Institutions want to use Ethereum, but one of the biggest problems is the lack of built-in, modular privacy tools. We were the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) for the past year. We had hundreds of conversations with central banks, regulators, tier-one banks, and asset managers, shipping open source work the whole time. Wall Street has found crypto as an asset class, but not yet as commercial infrastructure. Institutions want to run real flows on Ethereum: stablecoins, tokenized assets, settlement. These are businesses with billions of dollars on the line, and no bank will operate in full public view. On a public ledger, confidentiality is the hard part: each party to a transaction should see what it has a right to see, and nothing more. We have a year of proof of work: private bonds, confidential stablecoin transfers, private settlement across chains, the Ethereum Privacy Map, and more. All with protocol specs and security properties, at our website. We've spent a decade working on privacy in crypto. We know there's no silver bullet. Different use cases need different systems, each designed, specified, and hardened properly, and someone has to do that work. That's why EthSystems exists. We're an independent, for-profit company, backed by long-term Ethereum-aligned investors. This is a decade-long transition, and we aren't going anywhere. If you're an institution that wants to build on Ethereum, talk to us. We're hiring: BD in New York, protocol engineers, ops: join@ethsystems.org

Public petition signer lists expose signers to retaliation. In high-stakes contexts, knowing who signed can be dangerous. New IPTF writeup: Resilient Civic Participation. Prove a petition reached quorum without ever publishing who signed. Third and final post in our resilience series.