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Helius ships "Privacy Rings" on Solana, encrypting balances but not addresses — and the institutional version isn't live yet
Helius put Solana Privacy Rings live on mainnet on November 10, encrypting on-chain token amounts while leaving wallet addresses public, with an institutional "Custom Rings" version still in audit and formal verification not finished.
Gnosis Pay Says Hackers Took Customer Data From the Card System It Was Already Shutting Down
Gnosis Pay says attackers accessed customer data on the legacy system behind its own-branded cards on Nov. 3, but has not disclosed how many users or what information was exposed.
Treasury pulls its crypto mixing and self-hosted wallet rules, both unfinished
FinCEN is withdrawing its 2023 proposal to label international crypto mixing a "primary money laundering concern" and a 2020 proposal targeting self-hosted wallets, saying the rules risked chilling legitimate privacy-preserving activity.
Bitget hacker routes $3.8M into a Zcash shielded pool after NEAR blocks its swaps
On-chain investigator ZachXBT says the Bitget exchange attacker, who drained $387.5 million, has begun routing about $3.8 million in ZEC into a Zcash shielded pool after NEAR's intents system blocked some $50 million in attempted swaps.
Ethereum Foundation ships zkAPI, a pay-for-AI system that hides who's paying
The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project put zkAPI live on Ethereum mainnet, a system that lets users pay for metered AI services using zero-knowledge proofs instead of identity-linked API keys.
Ethereum Foundation ships zkAPI, a zero-knowledge way to pay for AI without an identity attached
The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI, a system using zero-knowledge proofs to let users pay for metered APIs without linking the payment to their identity or prompts.
Aztec relaunches its zk.money privacy wallet — in alpha, capped at $2,500, and before a known critical bug is fixed
Aztec Labs has relaunched its zk.money privacy wallet on its Ethereum Layer 2, but shipped it in alpha with $2,500 transaction caps, sanctions screening, publicly traceable deposits and a known critical proving bug still unfixed.
Zcash starts merging Tachyon scaling code into its live privacy software — but the upgrade itself is still not live
Zcash developers released Udon, a component that begins folding the proposed Tachyon scaling upgrade into the network's private-transaction software, though Tachyon itself remains unactivated and unaudited.
Peirce, on her way out of the SEC, calls for scrapping the KYC "panopticon"
Departing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce told a SIFMA conference that zero-knowledge proofs should replace bulk KYC data collection, which she called a hackable "panopticon" that endangers the people it aims to protect.
Zama opens 16 confidential Morpho vaults, adds private swaps on Ethereum
Confidentiality protocol Zama opened 16 confidential Morpho lending vaults on Ethereum on September 15 and launched a private swap protocol, after its first vault reported reaching $40 million in deposits.
World open-sources ProveKit, its zero-knowledge ID toolkit, as biometric project faces regulators
World, the Sam Altman-co-founded identity project formerly called Worldcoin, released its ProveKit zero-knowledge proving toolkit as open source, letting developers build apps that verify age or nationality without exposing the underlying ID data.
Bitcoin Core ships a test build to fix the privacy feature that leaked privacy
Bitcoin Core has published v31.1rc1 for testing, a minor release whose headline fix closes a privacy bug in the new private-broadcast feature that could leak a sender's IP address to a peer.