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what's coming next, and whatever you want to ask.
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We started building Paraloom in March 2025. Privacy Cash didn't exist yet - it launched in August 2025, five months later. So this was never a copy of anything.
The goal from day one was a fully distributed, fully decentralized privacy system with a low hardware barrier: run a validator on a Raspberry Pi or an old laptop. Many validators, spread across the world, no single machine to seize.
Tornado-style protocols and Privacy Cash all share one weak spot - a single operator behind the system. That's the door governments knock on. Tornado's dev got arrested. Privacy Cash advertises "OFAC compliance" because they can be pressured. Paraloom is built to have no such door - same reason no government can shut down Zcash or Bitcoin: nobody sits at the head of it.
And here's the kicker. Privacy Cash works and the volume is real - it just crossed $300M in cumulative private transfers, and it's accelerating ($100Mโ$200M took 69 days, $200Mโ$300M only 52). The fees run on a 0.35% withdrawal cut.
Now look at where all of that goes: Holders Revenue $0, validators' share $0. The entire fee stream flows to one operator, behind one contract and one relayer - not to the network. The bigger it gets, the bigger the single target.
That's the world we're trying to fix. Privacy isn't broken; privacy works. What's broken is that one person writes a contract, runs a server, collects every cent of the fees, and is a single point a government can shut down.
Paraloom routes that exact same fee stream to a permissionless validator set instead. Same privacy, lower fee (0.25% vs 0.35%), but no one at the head of it - and the rewards go to whoever runs a node.