Privacy


Фінанси

Cryptography Firm Zama Raises $73M for 'Fully Homomorphic Encryption' Apps

The funding found was led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs and included participation from Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Ethereum and Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood. The 'FHE' technology allows for processing of encrypted data, useful for privacy in blockchain and AI.

Rand Hindi

Ринки

Shiba Inu Adopts Tech to Bring More Privacy to SHIB Token Holders

Shiba Inu ecosystem token TREAT will power a "new privacy layer" for the Shibarium blockchain.

Shiba inu dog

Політика

India CBDC Insider Reveals Current Stance of Country's Central Bank

India’s central bank is weighing CBDC privacy technology and crypto tax is not part of its domain, a senior official told CoinDesk.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Політика

UK's Digital Pound Approach Should Help Manage Privacy Concerns, Experts Say

The Bank of England's recent consultation saw 50,000 responses, many welcoming the digital pound's design but sharing concerns about privacy.

Bank of England (Camomile Shumba)

Технології

Zcash Developer Electric Coin CEO Zooko Wilcox Steps Down, Swihart Named to Role

The overseeing board of Zcash, known for its privacy-oriented "shielded" addresses or "z-addresses," credited Wilcox with delivery of "the first real-world application of zero-knowledge proofs."

Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Думки

Warren’s Crypto Bill Is Likely Unconstitutional. It’s Also Unlikely to Pass

Democratic lawmakers signed on to sponsor the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act. The bill is bad for crypto in the U.S., even if it never gets through Congress.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Політика

China to Verify Citizens' Identities With New Blockchain-Based Platform

The announcement follows a government rule change to require social media influencers to display their real names.

(Pixabay)

Політика

IRS 'Raided' by Crypto Investors as Industry Puts Up Fight Against U.S. Tax Proposal

The proposal to establish a U.S. tax regime for digital assets has drawn a stunning 120,000 comments and will be the focus of an IRS hearing today.

The U.S. is weighing crypto tax rules, and a hearing today will hear from industry representatives worried about the government going too far. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk.)

Технології

Privacy Technology Firm Nym Plans Early 2024 Rollout of 'Decentralized VPN'

The privacy-focused infrastructure project says that the new NymVPN will disperse traffic across a network of nodes rather than running data through single servers as centralized VPNs do.

Nym co-founder and CEO Harry Halpin (Nym)

Технології

Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Lead $6M Funding Round For Privacy Protocol Firm Nocturne Labs

Other investors included Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures and HackVC.

Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)