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Privacy is crucial.
tried tapping into privacy first neobanking solutions built on stablecoin rails as part of potential lucidly syAssets integrations, ultimately found too much info on ct
I see an active ongoing debate on all privacy coins and decided to keep an all tools directory on how each of these work and identifying the architecture differences in how they operate.
will keep adding more eventually
@monero -> total anonymity
- Every transaction is private by default: sender, receiver, and amount are hidden with no toggle or weak settings.
- Appeals to users who distrust governments, exchanges, and analytics firms.
- Closest crypto equivalent to cash.
- Has slower transactions and higher fees, often treated as contraband by regulators and exchanges.
- Remains the leading coin for uncompromising privacy in 2025.
@Zcash -> flexible privacy
- Uses zk SNARKs allowing users to choose transparent or shielded (private) transactions.
- Balances privacy needs with regulatory compliance, suitable for taxes, corporate use, and legal transparency.
- Privacy adoption surged as wallets made shielded transactions default.
- Growing in popularity among privacy conscious professionals and investors.
@zama -> encrypted on-chain computation
- Uses fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allowing computation on encrypted data without decryption.
- Keeps logic onchain and data sealed, avoiding offchain computation risks.
- Enables private market making, undercollateralized loans without exposing scores, and tiny ML inference onchain.
@redacted_money -> privacy compliance reconciliation
- Designed for DeFi users who want privacy plus compliance.
- Enables private transactions and generates "Proof of Innocence" to prove no interaction with blacklisted wallets.
- Bridges privacy and regulatory demands, avoiding extremes of privacy or corporate automation.
- Small but innovative community advancing privacy compliance balance.
tee.fyi/ ->
TEEs secure computation and confidential data feeds
- Provide authenticated data feeds (oracles, TLS streams) ensuring integrity and authenticity for smart contracts.
- Preserve privacy and confidentiality of order flow in financial transactions, reducing front running risks.
- Enable confidential machine learning by training on sensitive data inside secure enclaves.
@aztecnetwork -> programmable privacy on Ethereum
- Privacy first L2 on Ethereum combining public and private logic for applications.
- Dual execution model: private actions run locally in a Private Execution Environment (PXE), public functions run on Aztec Virtual Machine (AVM).
- Private state uses encrypted notes tracked by nullifiers, public state follows Ethereum’s model.
- Each account is a smart contract enabling custom authorization and multiple privacy keys.
- Developers use
@Noirlang, a zk language, to build private and public contracts.
- Supports encrypted execution and private by default DeFi, identity, and onchain apps.
@encifherio -> private verifiable shared state on solana
- brings together a stack of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - (TEE, ZKPSs, HE, MPC) that complement each other.
- users can selectively disclose only those state information which they're comfortable to disclose.
- users get a chance to send to different accounts without linkage
- user state data is encrypted, still users would be able to perform verifiable mutation on top of each other state.