Got comments that Zcash and NEAR have different types of privacy. Of course they do. The problems they solve are different too: > Zcash brought privacy to money that sits still. > NEAR brings it to money in motion. Swaps, perps, prediction markets, payments. ZK is very good at hiding data that one person already knows. Your balance, your note, your transfer. Shared state is harder. To prove something you have to know it, and in an order book nobody is supposed to know the whole book. Hand the book to one operator who does know everything and you are back where you started. That is what the confidential shard is for. An order book nobody can read. A perp market where your liquidation price is invisible to the people who would hunt it. A prediction market where your position does not tell everyone what you know. Zcash proves privacy with math, NEAR with attested hardware. Math is stronger. Hardware is what can run a market today. Encrypted Bitcoin, meet confidential smart contract platform.