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privacy
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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.