Excited to announce that I have joined @circle to lead privacy and mev products on @arc.
Privacy is largely understood design space. Cryptography has been around for thousands of years (used in Ancient Mesopotamia to hide trade secrets) and is what secures your crypto assets today.
In the context of embedding privacy functionality (encrypted transaction details, balances, etc.) on layer one blockchains, it's a largely under explored area.
In more ways than not, MEV is complimentary to privacy. If implemented correctly it mitigates value destroyed (via bad mev) and helps ensure a healthy ecosystem (via good mev).
Tackling these 0 to 1 products will be a challenging but very rewarding experience.
I've worked with Circle in various capacities over the years, so it feels like a coming home moment for me.
Shout out to all of the incredible people that I get to work with every day @0xrachelita@sterlingba@blockjain@AdiSeredinschi
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Agents will always opt into transacting on high performance distributed blockchains with native privacy.
We’re unveiling a new type of execution environment and I can’t wait to tell you more about it.
@uttam_singhk David hitting the timeline with soft FUD after years of being a stalwart advocate is a bad sign and shows just how disconnected the network custodians/vision is from the broad user base
Privacy Unlocked: Crypto's Next Frontier for Institutions, Retail & AI
In this institution led cycle, privacy is emerging as one of the real catalysts for mass adoption of onchain finance. For retail, it's quickly becoming the default feature. Meanwhile, the AI & privacy wave hints at an entirely new class of use cases just ahead.
🎯 Why privacy is the driver of the next wave of onchain apps
🏛️ Compliant privacy & institutional use cases
🤖 Where AI × privacy intersect
🔧 The real bottlenecks of embedding privacy across different product layers
🗓️ Date: June 3, 9 PM HKT / 9 AM ET
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@yrschrade (@Arcium)
@randhindi (@zama)
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Quantum computing introduces long-term risk for digital infrastructure, from wallet signatures to validator integrity and more.
Circle’s post-quantum whitepaper explores Arc’s phased approach to resilience across:
→ USDC
→ Smart contracts
→ Validators
→ Infrastructure systems
Planning for long-term security and institutional adoption.
https://t.co/Kt8d1aPIKz
This true for any existing L1 blockchain. The tech debt to transition to PQ secure wallet and validator signatures is brutal so I’d imagine that chains want to push this off as long as possible. User and ecosystem migrations take time, so imo it’s better to chew glass now than later.
Nic Carter says Solana will need to be completely rebuilt to survive quantum computing
“It’s gonna be tricky for Solana because they’re highly optimized around some variant of elliptic curves. They’re optimized at the hardware level. The whole concept of Solana is that there’s a ton of throughput”
“It’s not that they can’t survive the transition, and to their credit, I see Solana leadership talking about it. They’ve been very proactive about it. They acknowledge the transition will happen. It’s just gonna be a really annoying rebuild for them”
“When it’s all said and done, maybe they’re using lattice-based cryptography. If I had to guess, that’s what they will do, but it’s gonna be slower. Their throughput might go down, and that’s kind of like the whole point of Solana, is throughput”
We're working more with startups more deeply than ever before. There's a lot of opportunity emerging to build high-quality financial experiences with global reach using stablecoin infra. Reach out if you think we can help at @BuildOnCircle and @arc
Privacy in crypto will win in two forms:
1. Private money — encrypted assets
2. Private computation — encrypted smart contracts
The second category is especially important for institutions because each one of them has its own idiosyncratic requirements—bespoke business logic, compliance rules, etc.
For them, providing privacy to their users isn’t as simple as just encrypting everything. They need to be able to encode who can see what and under which conditions.
That means privacy cannot just be binary. It must be programmable.