Onchain Privacy: Where Are We Going?

Regeneratooor Main Stage

Identity, Privacy & Security

Spork Castle 1st Floor

Feb 28, 2025

4:35 PM

What started out as a cool trick for moving funds from one wallet to another anonymously has evolved into a whole ecosystem of different projects and technological developments, and provoked action by governments, regulators and law enforcement in response. Building one of these onchain privacy projects not only has to overcome significant technical hurdles and design concerns, but also contend with how to position themselves best politically; do we compromise cypherpunk values to avoid abetting onchain crime? Do we engage with the financial regulations as they stand, or keep our heads down and hope for the best? Despite the widespread belief that privacy is critical infrastructure, many builders have simply opted to not build privacy tools out of these concerns. Join OGs of the privacy space, Zak (Number Group), Ameen (0xbow) and Elena (Iron Fish) for a discussion of what it’s been like to build privacy tools in the past few years, and where they think we’re going from here.

speakers

Zak Cole - Number Group

Elena Nadolinski - Iron Fish

Ameen Soleimani - 0xbow, Reflexer, Moloch DAO

Moderator

Claire Kart - Aztec Labs

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