“Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.” —
Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)
From the earliest days of Bitcoin, the cypherpunk dream was clear: build systems that protect freedom through cryptography. But Bitcoin’s design is open, transparent, and fully traceable which is something of a paradox. Every wallet, every transaction, every movement of value could be seen by anyone. Privacy was never part of the protocol.
After Bitcoin came privacy coins like Monero and Zcash. They solved one layer of the puzzle, shielding transfers through zero-knowledge proofs and cryptographic tricks like ring signatures and mixers. But while these systems protected simple transfers, the rest of the blockchain world moved ahead. Ethereum and its successors unlocked programmable money: smart contracts, DAOs, and decentralized finance. Yet, they carried the same flaw forward, full transparency by default.
Now, it’s time for privacy to become programmable too. And that’s exactly what COTI is delivering.
From Private Transfers to Private Logic
Ethereum showed that value could be more than tokens, it could be logic. Smart contracts let developers design entire economies and systems on-chain. But every one of those contracts is fully visible on the public ledger. For many use cases, that’s not just a limitation; it’s a dealbreaker.
Imagine a DeFi protocol where loan amounts and liquidation thresholds are visible to competitors. Or an AI model that must train on encrypted data but can’t risk exposure. Or a supply chain where sensitive pricing data leaks to everyone monitoring the network.
Today, however, programmable privacy solves these problems by bringing selective confidentiality into programmable logic itself.
Defining Programmable Privacy
Programmable Privacy means privacy that can be coded, customized, and automated through smart contracts, just like any other blockchain function. Developers can define what stays hidden, what can be shared, and under what conditions disclosure occurs.
It’s privacy you can program:
Encrypted transfers that work like Zcash but are integrated into broader ecosystems.
Confidential DeFi where swaps, loans, and derivatives execute privately without sacrificing verifiability.
Secure AI and data analytics where computations happen on encrypted inputs.
Auditable privacy, where users can selectively reveal details for compliance or reporting.
This is not about secrecy for its own sake, it’s about control. Programmable privacy restores user and institutional sovereignty over data in a world where transparency has gone too far.
COTI’s Breakthrough: Garbled Circuits on Chain
At the core of this evolution lies COTI’s breakthrough technology, on-chain Garbled Circuits. Unlike traditional zero-knowledge proofs that protect specific data types or transactions, garbled circuits allow arbitrary logic to be executed privately. In other words, any smart contract can become a private smart contract.
COTI offers privacy that’s:
Decentralized: executed entirely on-chain, with no trusted intermediaries.
Lightweight: designed for high performance and low cost.
Composable: privacy modules can plug into other dApps like Lego blocks.
Auditable: with built-in mechanisms for selective disclosure.
That combination is unique in Web3 and what’s more, COTI is not just theorizing programmable privacy, it’s running it live on Mainnet today.
Privacy as a Building Block for Web3
When money became programmable, it transformed finance. When privacy becomes programmable, it will transform everything else.
COTI’s vision is to make privacy a composable building block, one that developers, enterprises, and users can reuse, adapt, and integrate seamlessly across use cases. Finance, AI, identity, supply chains, all can operate in a new equilibrium of confidentiality and transparency, defined by code.
In the next decade, every major blockchain will need a privacy layer. But only programmable privacy offers the flexibility and compliance that the world demands: privacy you can prove, audit, and compose.
The Future Is Private, and Programmable
We’re entering a new phase of blockchain evolution. Bitcoin gave us transparent trust. Ethereum gave us programmable money. Now, COTI delivers programmable privacy, the foundation for the next generation of Web3 applications.
It’s not about hiding. It’s about building systems that respect sovereignty, compliance, and freedom, all at once. It’s about privacy that scales. And it’s already here.
Stay COTI.
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