🔮 a cyborg since 2009, cryptographer & ethical hacker, raised by Satoshi Nakamoto; ex-Meta lead researcher, co-founder/chief cryptographer of @Mysten_Labs 24/7
You probably haven’t spotted the hidden gem 💎 behind the future of payments privacy.
Many people just saw Sui Confidential Transfers and thought ‘ok, cool feature’. Wrong.
Look closely at what was open-sourced and you’ll notice a much bigger pattern: Confidential Payment Tunnels.
Remember Bitcoin’s Lightning ⚡️?
Now imagine locking undisclosed amounts and making payments completely off-chain, with privacy even against receiver, built in from the start. It’s a new paradigm.
This could unlock millions of payments per second, gasfree pay your grocery store even when offline, power entirely new startup ideas, and become the default pay-rails for both humans and AI agents who will ❤️ this option!