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!
https://t.co/AnVozpCqOM
@matteodotsui@zayn4pf not alive but not completely dead either (zombies ?), some are still loading like MegaEth, you’d really need a very good vertical that hasn’t yet been tried to take off (none of gaming, trading, art, privacy, gpu, iot etc)
Step 1: Confidential amounts
Step 2 : Confidential txn parties
Step 3. Confidential defi
Steps 1 to 3 possible today, we are just taking a measured approach to a compliance friendly launch by methodically phasing.
All ZK wizardry without the risk of unauthorized mints. #Sui
privacy that actually works, compliance that doesn’t kill UX, serious institutions can touch without calling 12 lawyers first.
Confidential Transfers on Sui Devnet
Confidential transfers are live in public beta on Sui Devnet.
Transfer amounts and balances are private, with controlled visibility for compliance and auditability.
What this means for finance workflows: 🧵