one thing people underestimate about onchain transparency your balance tells a story you don't need to see someone's entire wallet to learn a lot about them. a balance can give you clues about how big their position is, when they might be entering or exiting, how much risk they're taking, and sometimes even what they're likely to do next imagine trying to trade while everyone can watch your financial position in real time that's where i think shielded balances become pretty interesting @FlutonIO is working on this through its Universal Confidentiality Engine, alongside encrypted intents and confidential execution the bigger idea isn't making the blockchain less useful it's making it possible to use onchain finance without turning your portfolio into public information private swaps, bridging, payments, yield, even AI agents can benefit from that kind of privacy imo, privacy shouldn't mean going offchain it should mean having the choice of what the chain gets to see