Privacy is the ultimate shield against blockchain vultures

Privacy protocols are the unsung heroes in the fight against blockchain vultures.

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Regulators are cracking down on financial privacy, but ZK-proofs can help

The convergence of ZK-proofs and decentralized identity systems could create more compliant privacy-preserving protocols, without sacrificing user privacy.

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Trail of Bits completes Worldcoin security audits, finds no vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits has concluded the audit of Worldcoin’s ORB technology and found that it adheres to stringent privacy protocols, particularly in how it processes and stores personally identifiable information (PII).

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Grayscale wants to launch new ETF tracking privacy coins like Zcash

Grayscale seeks SEC approval for a new exchange-traded fund (ETF), which will track the performance of data privacy companies and protocols like Zcash. In a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Grayscale Investments said it plans…

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Will the next crypto bull run be dominated by L1s, L2s or something else?

This latest report from Cointelegraph Research dives into the tsunami of solutions coming onto the market that improve security, privacy and speed from existing protocols.

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Vitalik Buterin Suggests Privacy and Financial Regulation Compatible in Co-Authored Paper

The paper titled "Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance:Towards a Practical Equilibrium" introduces Privacy Pools. These protocols conceal transaction history to provide privacy. However, it differs from mixers like Tornado Cash, which faces sanctions in the US.

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Monero (XMR) Dips, Borroe ($ROE) Eyes Elite Status in Crypto Top 50 by 2024

In the vast sea of cryptocurrencies, tokens jostle for recognition and value. Recently, Monero (XMR), known for its rigorous privacy protocols, witnessed a dip in its performance. However, as one entity retreats, another rises.

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DeFi platforms can comply with regulations without compromising privacy — Web3 exec

Zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identifiers and more could help DeFi protocols maintain regulatory compliance without exposing their users.

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North Korea's Lazarus Group masterminded $100M Harmony hack: FBI confirms

The FBI also confirmed earlier reports this month by figures such as ZachXBT that the hackers had started moving a large chunk of the funds around via privacy protocols.

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Tornado Cash ban could spell disaster for other privacy protocols — Manta co-founder

The ban of Tornado Cash in the U.S. could have ripple effects across Web3 protocols, particularly ones that offer privacy on the blockchain.

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Litecoin is finally launching its major Mimblewimble upgrade

Privacy opt-ins are coming to Litecoin even as regulators continue to scrutinize anonymity-boosting protocols.

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Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Explained – Privacy, Security, Scalability And Truly Decentralized Application Protocols

With Taproot only a few hours from activation, it seems like a good time to expand on the Taproot part from a previous ELI5 from a few months ago explaining what makes Bitcoin valuable, Lightning Network, and Taproot.

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The Squad Game Approaches: Manta Network Advances Towards Community Token Event

Manta Network, a full-stack set of privacy protocols built on Substrate for the Polkadot DeFi ecosystem, is on the march towards its community token event titled “Squad Game.” A colorful take on the globally popular Netflix series “Squid Game,” a group of manta rays is known collectively as a squadron, or squad for short, contributingRead More

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LedgerMail: World's first decentralized secure email solution onboards 500K users!

Privacy is a growing concern for everyone around the world and while traditional email providers use the IMAP/SMTP transfer protocols, their centralized governance styles are raising concerns. ThesThe post LedgerMail: World's first decentralized secure email solution onboards 500K users! appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Panther Protocol Partners With NEAR Blockchain To Develop Its Privacy-Centric Technology On The Network

Panther has the vision of a surveillance-free decentralized world for DeFi and Web3 users, where DApps and protocols have privacy features by default. The protocol also aims to connect all EVM compatible blockchains through a privacy layer, allowing users to share whatever information they choose, thereby balancing trust and privacy. Part of achieving this goal […]

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Ergo got listed on Bitcoin.com exchange, is now the right time to invest?

Ergo ERG/USD was created with the intention of building advanced cryptographic features and implementing new DeFi functionality on the foundation which was laid out by blockchain technology. Through its Sigma protocols and architecture, it is a possibility to launch use-cases that would be impossible on other platforms, as it offers powerful privacy applications and financial […] The post Ergo got listed on Bitcoin.

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Privacy & possession in crypto: The story of non-custodial protocols

No private keys, no crypto.

The post Privacy & possession in crypto: The story of non-custodial protocols appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Enya and OMG Network intregate developer toolchain Web3API for Ethereum layer-2 platform OMGX

Enya, a provider of decentralized privacy solutions, in partnership with OMG Network, a leader in Ethereum scaling development, today announced their partnership with Web3API, a developer toolchain that makes it easy to integrate Web3 protocols into applications from any programming language.

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Privacy-Enhancing DeFi Solution Panther Protocol Closes $8 Million In Private Funding

Privacy is a commodity that many cryptocurrency enthusiasts are looking for, yet only a few can achieve it. Making this feature opt-in is not ideal, which is why the demand for privacy-oriented protocols is on the rise.

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South Korea to Ban Privacy Coins from Q1 2021

Privacy coins like Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) will become illegal in South Korea from Mar. 2021. The news is the latest assault on encryption and privacy as regulators enact laws targeting such protocols amid intensifying anti-money laundering (AML) efforts.

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Cryptographers Are Always Going to Be ‘One Step Ahead’ of Regulators: Monero’s Spagni

Privacy protocols have become the focal point of regulators and law enforcement agencies when the race among central banks to launch sovereign digital currencies is heating up.

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Europol Sets Crosshairs on Privacy Coins

The growing popularity of privacy-centered Wasabi and Samourai bitcoin wallets has made tracking crypto transactions on the darknet harder than before. Europol is targeting privacy protocols in their recent crime threat assessment.

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Litecoin relaunches MimbleWimble testnet as Europol targets privacy protocols

Litecoin's privacy feature testnet returns as news emerges that Europol sees privacy and coin mixing technologies as major digital threats

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Monero’s (XMR) impressive rally is likely to end at this level

Monero (XRM) price rallied more than 15% in September to secure the highest monthly close in 15 months. This was possible due to an impressive rally yesterday, which yielded gains of 7. 42%.   Fundamental analysis: A bounty for breaking Monero’s protocol Yesterday, the IRS announced two winners of its $625,000 bounty program to monitor transactions for privacy token Monero and Layer 2 protocols.

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Chainalysis and Texas firm win million-dollar IRS contract to crack Monero

The IRS has named the winners of its bounty program to track transactions on privacy tokens and layer-2 protocols.

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Decentralized Finance Is Blossoming, But Just How Decentralized Is Defi?

The defi market has hit an all-time high as the total value locked up in decentralized finance has surged past $850 million. A flurry of new applications, privacy proposals, wallets, DEXs, and protocols is extending the limits of what defi is capable of.

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Blockchain privacy protocol Enigma explores new use-cases with Chainlink

Enigma, a decentralized, open-source protocol that lets anyone perform computations on encrypted data, bringing privacy to smart contracts and public blockchains, has announced expanded collaboration with decentralized oracle network Chainlink, to focus on the integration of their protocols for new use cases in “secret smart contracts.

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Cypherpunk takes stake in bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet

Cypherpunk, a company investing in technologies and protocols that enhance privacy, announced today that it has completed an equity investment in zkSnacks, whose products include the bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet.

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Poolin CEO: Bitcoin Needs Better Privacy Protocols, a ‘Real Problem’ to Avoid Legal Clampdown

Kevin Pan, CEO of Poolin, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools said in an interview that Bitcoin needs better privacy in order to avoid any regulatory clampdowns in future. Pan said, “The real problem with Bitcoin may be privacy.

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Anonymous KYC Solution Could Make DEX Model More Viable

An experimental application could help decentralized exchanges comply with regulations without compromising user privacy. Announced jointly today by DeversiFI and the identity management platform, Iden3, the TrustCommunity experiment application allows anyone to create sovereign identities that could be used across multiple applications and protocols.

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CoinOne Crypto Exchange Seeks to Bolster Safety Protocols With Binance-Backed CertiK and Xangle

CoinOne — one of S. Korea’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms — has just entered into an agreement with cybersecurity audit company CertiK and disclosures company Xangle so as to provide its customers with more privacy as well as better overall transparency.

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4 Reasons why EY’s Nightfall Privacy Toolset for Ethereum is a big Thing

In the cryptocurrency world, there is a growing focus on privacy-centric features. Whereas not every project offers that particular option, it seems Ethereum can now be added to this list. This is only possible up to a certain degree, as the first set of privacy protocols has only just been released.

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TRON incorporating decentralized storage into the BitTorrent ecosystem

CryptoNinjas TRON, a leading blockchain platform, announced it plans to incorporate decentralized storage as another blockchain solution into the BitTorrent ecosystem. The move is another step in TRON’s mission to create a borderless internet where privacy and ownership are more user-controlled.

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Vitalik Buterin Eyes Research on Privacy Coin Monero’s Traceability

By CCN: Vitalik Buterin has expressed an interest in incorporating privacy features into Ethereum. He is partial to the ZK-SNARKS technology that is used in privacy coin Zcash. Nonetheless, his senses appear to be particularly keen about any developments surrounding privacy protocols.

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Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 Release: Here’s What’s New

Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.

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Cryptomining Scripts Blocked by New Firefox Build

Firefox has collaborated with a privacy firm called Disconnect to stop unwanted browser-based cryptomining and fingerprint-tracking. Firefox has compiled a list of websites that serve cryptomining scripts.

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Privacy Protocols Could Be Good For Business

Privacy coins normally have a tough time. But as QED-it's CEO explains, many businesses will only adopt blockchain if transactions can be kept private. The post Privacy Protocols Could Be Good For Business appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Canadian Federal Tax Agency Targets Bitcoin Investors

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has apparently been specifically targeting bitcoin and crypto investors as part of its broader tax strategy to keep tabs on their cryptocurrency investments, including how they purchase these assets.

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Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto

There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.

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MEW Users Can Trade up to $5,000 without KYC

MyEtherWallet (MEW) now allows its customers to conduct trades of up to $5,000 without KYC protocols, as announced via a press release on February 20, 2019. New Rules One of the most talked-about issues in crypto is the issue of privacy.

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BitWings ICO

BitWings token, a native currency of Wings Mobile ecosystem, has 100% guaranteed issuing value and is the only means to pre-order the first (40 000) ultra-secure blockchain smartphones in the world able to generate up to 2 ETH a month without any power consumption, powered with neural technology.

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How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder

The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments to steal our privacy and restrict our speech and autonomy. What should exist are neutral, technical standards and protocols, like the standards and protocols for blogs, email, and the Web.

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IOHK research on sidechains accepted to IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

CryptoNinjas IOHK, the blockchain research and development company behind top 10 cryptocurrency Cardano, has announced that its recent paper on sidechain protocols has been accepted to the leading Oakland cybersecurity conference.

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The Daily: Blockchain Surveillance vs Privacy Protocols

The battle for privacy is ramping up. Every day, in the cryptocurrency space, we learn of increased blockchain surveillance, countered by the efforts of privacy protocol developers. We’ve got stories from both sides of the divide in this episode of The Daily, plus a “bitcoin mansion” that’s up for sale.

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Brave CEO Pens Letter to Senate Committee Asking for GDPR-Like Privacy Regulation

Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).

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Zcash Price Analysis - (Sometimes) private transactions

ZEC has taken a somewhat controversial and unique approach of heavily incentivizing founders and the existing ZEC team to promote ongoing protocol improvements. As opposed to default privacy on the protocol layer, optional privacy has been shown to reveal users transactions through linking if transacted between non-shielded addresses.

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What Is TaTaTu Cryptocurrency?

Over the past few years, people have become aware of the fact that their personal data is often used by social media companies and online retailers for advertising purposes. In addition, a surge in the number of recent data privacy scandals has forced more people to make use of advanced security protocols so that they […]

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“Monero [XMR] was horrible to use” – Zcoin [XZC]’s Reubin Yap

On 14th July, Dan Fries from Coin Crunch interviewed Reubin Yap, the Chief Operating Officer [COO] of Zcoin [XZC]. They discussed the state of privacy coins in the current cryptocurrency space, the background and history of Zcoin, and the distinction between Zcoin and Zcash privacy protocols. According to Reubin, some of the big privacy coins […]

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