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As regulators push for more oversight, privacy news covers the growing debate over financial anonymity in crypto. Privacy coins, decentralized identity solutions, and encryption technologies are reshaping how users protect their data. The tension between compliance and decentralization continues to drive innovation in secure, permissionless transactions.
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The Solana Foundation has introduced Solana Confidential Compute, an open-source toolkit built with Nito that lets developers create private AI applications and verify their computing hardware on Solana. The Solana Foundation’s Nov. 13 announcement describes a software development kit and…
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Bitcoin Core has disclosed a vulnerability that gave incoming Tor connections trusted permissions on thousands of nodes, removing some protections against spam and privacy leaks. Bitcoin Core’s security disclosure, published Nov. 10, identifies the Tor issue as CVE-2025-62860. Developers released…
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Helius has launched Solana Privacy Rings on mainnet, giving users encrypted balances and confidential transfers while keeping wallet addresses visible in its first permissionless ring. Helius announced the release on Nov. 10, with the Solana Foundation describing the approach as…
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has praised stablecoins for enabling instant global dollar transfers for under one cent, while critics have raised concerns about privacy and frozen funds. Brian Armstrong, writing on X on Nov. 6, said stablecoins give people access…
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Privacy Cash has temporarily paused deposits following the Binance hack, saying it will strengthen wallet screening after investigators traced about $1.2 million in theft-linked funds into its privacy pools. Privacy Cash announced the suspension in a Nov. 4 post, directly…
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An address linked to the Binance hacker has deposited nearly $798,000 in Solana into Privacy Cash as the exchange reports progress replacing assets stolen in its $6.34 billion breach. Onchain Lens said in a Nov. 3 post that the hacker-linked…
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The Binance hacker has begun mixing stolen funds through CoinJoin, moving roughly $2.2 million in Bitcoin through privacy transactions following the exchange’s multibillion-dollar theft. Elliptic’s Nov. 2 report traced the first mixing to 05:55 UTC on Nov. 1. Bitcoin obtained…
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The Ethereum Foundation has backed default privacy in wallets by sharing an update on Kohaku, a software development kit integrating three privacy protocols, and arguing that attackers should have less access to users’ onchain histories. In its Oct. 26 X…
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Starknet launches Shadow Accounts, letting DeFi users keep their main wallets private while trading, lending and managing visible onchain positions.
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NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin has outlined 13 application ideas spanning AI pets, private trading, and cross-chain payments, alongside five suggestions for helping developers reach users. Illia Polosukhin, in an Oct. 3 X post, said new and returning developers had been…
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Zano restarted its blockchain at block 3,833,000 after a Gateway Address flaw created unauthorized ZANO and fUSD, erasing one month of history.
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Researchers proposed Shielded Bitcoin, using ZK proofs and encrypted notes for private BTC transfers without a soft fork or consensus changes.
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Privacy coins are gaining a place in regulated investment markets even as direct access to their underlying assets becomes harder. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF now trades on NYSE Arca, while major centralized exchanges have reduced support for Monero and other privacy-focused…
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The SEC approved a privacy coin ETF the same month it proposed tighter rules for every other digital asset. That contradiction tells you more about what regulators actually fear than any speech or rulemaking ever could. The last time a…
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0G Private Computer has processed more than 250 billion tokens across 17 million requests while expanding its private AI service to 28 models and adding U.S. dollar payments. In an Aug. 18 press release shared with crypto.news, 0G Labs said…