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Innovations in the crypto space appear daily. Whether through decentralized applications or new ways to implement and use nonfungible tokens (NFTs) within decentralized finance, blockchain technology is innovating at the speed of light. The only thing missing? Widespread adoption. One thing holding this back is the very public nature of
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Next to the fears of government overreach that the European Union’s ambitious digital euro project stirred, the main concern of the public is the prospective currency’s privacy framework. It appears that this worry might not be overblown after all: as the European Central Bank's (ECB) latest presentation hints, user anonymity
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Swiss privacy startup Nym Technologies announced it has secured $300 million in commitments from venture capital partners in support of the NYM Innovation Fund. Nym intends to issue grants to developers and incentivize them to build on top of Nym's decentralized infrastructure. This funding comes a couple of weeks after
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The NSA whistleblower and privacy advocate was one of six participants in the cryptocurrency’s fabled 2016 “trusted setup” ceremony, using a pseudonym. Source
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Metaverse skeptics fear the prospect of unprotected data and large-scale user surveillance on a scale never seen before. Ironically, the largest company pushing the Metaverse, Meta (previously known as Facebook), has faced its own fair share of privacy scandals in the internet’s current iteration, culminating in Mark Zuckerberg being infamously
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Monero is a privacy-centric protocol that masks the wallet addresses of users making it difficult for others to trace and track transactions. This is unlike bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrencies, where wallet addresses and transactional behavior can be analyzed to determine the identity of their users. Source
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An ambitious new decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has built a data service for lending platforms that records a user’s financial reputation to reduce the amount of collateral needed for a loan.It has partnered with Chainlink and that protocol’s founder Sergey Nazarov is an early backer.Users of Reputation DAO will have
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Monero's XMR, the largest privacy token by market capitalization, is up 35% over the last 30 days, compared with bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, which is up 6% over a 30-day period, according to data from Messari. Monero prides itself on providing a “secure, private, untraceable
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“It doesn't involve any account, which means that you can use it peer-to-peer directly. You can use it offline and because there's no third party, there's no loss of privacy expectation that comes with the third party doctrine,” Rohan Grey, who advised on the bill, told me. Source
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No formal decision has yet been taken whether to issue the central bank digital currency (CBDC), but the EU is already considering how to tie payment innovations to anti-money laundering rules, both for the digital euro and private cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. Source
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