Privacy infra - pt.2 i’m making privacy a research priority for the next 2 years as more finance moves onchain, public balances, trading strategies & business payments become a commercial problem i see demand for confidential execution is heating up lately verifiable financial data and private computation are also inevitable by now quantum is a real trigger for reviewing the security behind these systems Google’s latest research reduced the estimated physical qubits needed to break widely used elliptic-curve cryptography by 20× i expect preparation and security spending before a working attack arrives NIST already urges migration, and replacing cryptography takes time that makes the next 2 years worth watching closely in cryptographic landscape i assess privacy and quantum resistance separately these are the approaches i’m following: [1] @QuantusNetwork | $QTC - capped supply at 21M and PoW - combined with encrypted payments and post-quantum cryptography for long-term asset security [2] @NEARProtocol | $NEAR - existing intents integrations can add confidential cross-chain execution - reducing the work needed to offer privacy [3] @primus_labs - credit + audit use case in combining zkTLS data verification with encrypted computation - financial info can be checked without exposing every underlying record [4] @nillion | ethereum:0x7cf9a80db3b29ee8efe3710aadb7b95270572d47 - private computation beyond payments - analyze sensitive data while limiting access by the infra operators processing it [5] @SilentSwap - private, noncustodial cross-chain swaps for traders and treasury managers - limit disclosure of portfolio movements [6] @anoma | ethereum:0xcedbea37c8872c4171259cdfd5255cb8923cf8e7 - generalized intents with selective disclosure - apps can coordinate financial txns across supported chains while controlling what info gets shared [7] @nockchain | base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722 - mining-subsidized ZK proof generation can lower the cost of private financial applications - proving costs matter if these products are going to scale best lowcap dou i’m looking to hold multiple cycle = $QTC NFA, DYOR!