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In the ever-evolving landscape of blockchain and decentralization, privacy has reemerged as the defining conversation of our digital era. Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder, has recently advanced one of his most forceful arguments yet that privacy as not only a fundamental right but also an indispensable foundation for meaningful progress in Web3. For Vitalik, a world without privacy is one where individuals cannot freely transact, create, or express themselves without fear of surveillance or exploitation.

This conviction resonates deeply with the ethos of decentralization. Web3 was conceived as a movement toward ownership and autonomy, yet the reality remains that most blockchain activity today is publicly accessible, exposing user data, behaviours, and financial trails in ways that are incompatible with the concept of true freedom.

COTI’s CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen puts it succinctly, “Privacy isn’t just a feature, it’s the precondition for freedom, innovation, and real adoption in Web3. At COTI, we’re turning that principle into infrastructure. By making programmable privacy scalable and practical today, we’re helping Ethereum and the broader ecosystem move from ideals to impact.”

Bridging the gap between transparency and confidentiality has become the grand challenge of the next chapter in Web3’s evolution.

How Is Ethereum Advancing Wallet-Level Privacy with Kohaku?

Ethereum’s research into privacy-preserving technologies has gained tangible momentum in projects like Kohaku, announced earlier this week at Devconnect Argentina. Kohaku is a privacy‑first wallet toolkit and software development kit (SDK) initiated by the Ethereum Foundation that encourages builders to adopt privacy-preserving features.

Kohaku and similar initiatives demonstrate that privacy need not come at the cost of security or compliance. They are part of a growing movement that understands privacy as empowerment, allowing communities and economies to function freely while anchoring all activity in cryptographic integrity.

What Makes COTI’s Approach to Privacy Different?

While Ethereum paves the way for wallet privacy, COTI has already integrated with MetaMask and has live infrastructure for building privacy into all manner of real-world applications. As a privacy-first Ethereum Layer 2, COTI has pioneered the first-ever blockchain implementation of Garbled Circuits, a cryptographic breakthrough theorized in the 1980s but only now realized at production scale.

COTI’s Garbled Circuits approach offers a distinct performance profile in the privacy landscape: up to 3000x faster than Fully Homomorphic Encryption and 250x lighter than alternative privacy solutions. This isn’t just incremental improvement, it’s the unlock that makes privacy practically deployable across enterprise applications. COTI’s unique technology enables multi-party computation without revealing private data, all while remaining fully EVM-compatible.

Where solutions face tradeoffs between performance and confidentiality, COTI’s architecture can deliver on both making it adoption-ready for a wide range of use cases in finance, healthcare, identity management, and the creative layers of Web3.

Where Can Programmable Privacy Have Real Impact?

Confidential DeFi, to hide bidding, leverage positions, trade size, or strategy until settlement, reducing front‑running and data leakage.

Real‑World Assets, allowing high‑value assets to be tokenized while protecting ownership and valuation details.

Identity systems, to mute personal data by default and reveal only what is legally required.

Enterprises, to shield payment amounts or customer identities while still enabling audits where needed.

Payments / Wallets: Private transfers, payroll, merchant and B2B payments that protect sensitive commercial terms, Institutional wallets with audit-friendly controls

AI systems use encrypted data and produce private results, letting companies apply AI on sensitive information without exposing it.

Each of these scenarios reframes digital privacy not as a luxury, but as a condition for genuine freedom. COTI’s contribution is instrumental in achieving this transformation.

Why Is COTI Essential to Ethereum’s Privacy Future?

The privacy renaissance represents more than a technological shift, it is a renewal of Web3’s founding philosophy that seeks the digital liberty of decentralization. COTI stands at the forefront of this evolution, not merely as a technology provider, but as core infrastructure and enabler.

As the ecosystem matures, different privacy solutions will serve complementary needs across various use cases. COTI’s unique combination of speed, lightweight computation, and enterprise-grade compliance positions it to unlock applications that require all three, from trade finance to healthcare to confidential social platforms.

Through its pursuit of practical, scalable privacy infrastructure, COTI transforms Web3’s most profound aspiration into reality: a free, secure, and equitable digital future, one in which privacy is not an afterthought, but the very essence of human and technological progress.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3.
Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

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When Vitalik Buterin recently described privacy as “freedom,” he captured the essence of what the next phase of the internet must strive for. In a world increasingly saturated with surveillance, where every digital action can be monitored, analyzed, and monetized, the vision of Web3 emerged as a radical alternative. It promised to return power to the people, decentralizing control and creating an internet where users could finally own their data, identities, and transactions.

Yet, the transparency that powers blockchain has created a paradox. A fully visible ledger ensures verifiability, but it also exposes personal and financial details to anyone willing to look. In practice, this transparency is threatening security, personal autonomy, and even the freedom to associate without fear. For Web3 to fulfil its founding ideals, it must embrace privacy not as an afterthought, but as a foundational human right.

How far has Web3 drifted from its Cypherpunk roots?

The roots of blockchain trace back to the cypherpunk movement, a community of thinkers who believe that cryptography can restore individual freedom in the digital realm. They recognize that privacy is the bedrock of liberty, enabling people to speak, transact, and create without coercion. Web3’s philosophical lineage is tied to these ideals, promising systems that eliminate intermediaries and empower individuals. But somewhere along the way, the emphasis on transparency overshadowed the need for discretion.

Without privacy, decentralization risks becoming a hollow concept. When every transaction is public, personal safety and financial independence are compromised. Users lose the ability to operate without constant scrutiny, and communities lose the trust necessary for open collaboration. Blockchain is in danger of moving towards a tool for total surveillance and the time to course correct is now. Permissionless systems must now become private.

What Are the Real Risks of Unchecked Transparency?

The transparency of blockchain can create unnecessary risk, from predatory targeting of wallets to the exposure of business strategies and personal relationships. Beyond security, it imposes psychological pressure. When people know they are constantly observed, they self-censor. That chilling effect erodes innovation and freedom of expression.

The Web3 community must therefore confront the uncomfortable truth: an internet economy without privacy cannot offer true self-sovereignty. Freedom requires the power to choose what to reveal, and when. Anything less turns the promise of Web3 into another form of digital control. The solution lies in building infrastructure that enables confidential transactions while maintaining the integrity and auditability that make blockchain valuable, this is now a moral and ethical necessity.

Are Privacy-Preserving Solutions Ready for Real Adoption?

Solutions across the ecosystem have emerged to address this challenge: Innovations like Garbled Circuits are bringing unprecedented speed and efficiency to multi-party computation, while zero-knowledge proofs and Fully Homomorphic Encryption have enabled alternative solutions. These technologies allow us to transact, authenticate, and verify without revealing the underlying data, returning agency to the user.

The builders of Web3 must recognize their responsibility not just as engineers, but as stewards of freedom. Implementing privacy-preserving systems is an act of care for the individual and a defense of democratic values in the digital age. Different approaches serve complementary needs, and as the ecosystem matures, the combination of speed, compliance, and usability will determine which solutions unlock enterprise adoption and real-world use cases.

Why Is COTI Positioned to Lead in Programmable Privacy?

COTI is the fastest and lightest privacy layer on the market today. COTI delivers programmable privacy at production scale thanks to it’s high-performance Garbled Circuits. COTI is:

1000x faster than FHE

250x lighter than most ZK-based alternatives

EVM-compatible and cross-chain ready

This breakthrough makes confidential on-chain transactions practical for enterprise use cases in finance, healthcare, identity management, and supply chain, areas where privacy isn’t optional, but essential.

COTI maintains full EVM compatibility through its Garbled Circuits EVM (gcEVM), enabling developers to build privacy-preserving applications with familiar toolkit while adding confidentiality parameters that were previously impossible. For the first time, builders can balance transparency with confidentiality in ways that meet regulatory requirements and enterprise standards.

Through the integration of these cryptographic innovations and privacy-first design, COTI represents a commitment to an internet that is both decentralized and humane. It reminds us that freedom online isn’t granted, it’s built, protected, and constantly renewed. By making privacy practical, performant, and accessible to developers, COTI is helping the entire Web3 ecosystem realign with its founding promise: to enable users to interact without intrusion and transact without fear.

Privacy is not a feature. It is a right. And the future of Web3 depends on our willingness to defend it.

What is COTI?

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3.
Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

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Leaked EU documents suggest that Europe may be preparing to scale back aspects of its landmark GDPR privacy framework to encourage innovation, potentially reopening the door to broader data tracking and profiling.

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) passed in 2018, it was hailed as a monumental step toward giving individuals control over their personal data. Over time, GDPR became a global blueprint for digital privacy, forcing companies to rethink how they collected, stored, and used information about their users. Yet, a few short years later, that foundation is starting to shift.

Recent policy papers and leaked drafts from Brussels indicate growing concern that strict privacy requirements are stifling innovation and hurting Europe’s competitiveness in emerging fields like artificial intelligence and data analytics. Policymakers appear to be entertaining reforms that would soften core GDPR safeguards and adjust the ePrivacy rules, the very clauses meant to protect users from pervasive tracking online.

The Breaking of the Web2 Privacy Promise

The proposed changes could allow for broader ‘legitimate interest’ exemptions, making it easier for companies to collect and process user data without explicit consent. While the intention is to spur innovation, such adjustments effectively dilute the user-centric spirit of GDPR. They signal a larger pivot: from user rights and transparency toward commercial flexibility and state competitiveness.

If those revisions pass, the trust that users once placed in Europe’s regulatory protections may begin to erode. In the Web2 era, data protection was guaranteed by law; but as the law weakens, the only remaining safeguards will be those we can impose ourselves through technology.

Why Web3 Privacy Must Stand Strong

This shift represents a key cultural crossroads. It is no longer safe to assume that governments will always enforce stringent data rights. Instead, digital privacy must evolve beyond compliance to cryptographic assurance, privacy that cannot be repealed, rewritten, or politically compromised. In this new environment, Web3 architectures built on cryptographic principles have the advantage.

The blockchain privacy space has evolved significantly, with various approaches emerging to address on-chain confidentiality. Zero-knowledge proofs, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and Trusted Execution Environments have each advanced the field in meaningful ways. Yet as the ecosystem matures, next-generation solutions like COTI’s Garbled Circuits are unlocking new possibilities by combining speed, lightweight computation, and multi-party computation in ways that enable practical enterprise applications.

When data custody and confidentiality are enforced on-chain through cryptographic protocols, they no longer need to depend on regulatory goodwill.

Enter COTI: Privacy-First Infrastructure for an Uncertain Regulatory Future

COTI Network exemplifies what that next stage of digital privacy can look like. As a cross-chain privacy layer, built with Garbled Circuits technology, COTI delivers a unique combination of performance and confidentiality. With computation up to 3000x faster than the closest alternative, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and 250x lighter, COTI’s infrastructure makes privacy-preserving applications practical at enterprise scale.

By embedding privacy directly into its EVM-compatible architecture, builders can create compliant, user-first applications, with privacy parameters integrated from the ground up. This approach enables confidential on-chain transactions that serve real-world use cases in finance, healthcare, identity management, and beyond.

Users retain full ownership of their on-chain data through multi-party computation protocols that never reveal private information.

Confidential transactions ensure financial privacy while maintaining regulatory compliance through a framework that balances transparency with confidentiality — not just anonymity.

Developers can design enterprise-grade applications without surrendering sovereignty to centralized servers, leveraging COTI’s lightweight design that runs on any device.

Regulatory changes — no matter how sweeping — cannot override the cryptographic privacy standards secured by Ethereum’s infrastructure.

As COTI’s CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen notes, “If blockchains are going to be of real value and carry real data, privacy can’t be optional. It has to be built into the protocol from day one.”

This principle sits at the core of COTI’s approach to solving the challenge that regulatory rollbacks now expose, that privacy cannot be a matter of policy alone, it must be a foundational feature of the network itself.

Europe’s privacy rollback is more than a policy shift; it’s a wake-up call. As trust in Web2 protections fades, the future of digital freedom depends on cryptography, decentralization, and self-sovereignty, the very foundations that COTI’s privacy protocol secures.

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The development studio will use COTI’s Garbled Circuits to power decentralized, trustless, and confidential auctions, while providing a blueprint and reusable code for other builders.

Alongside DEXes, auction markets have become vital platforms for trading assets in the DeFi space. Typically used for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and assets that are hard to value, these services enable efficient price discovery and trustless exchange. However, the transparency of the blockchain leads to a variety of problems and abuses, from loss of financial privacy to front-running and sniping.

Agora, a new auction marketplace being built on COTI by Nikos Consultancy, aims to solve these issues.

Agora will enable trustless, efficient, low-fee, and private auctions for digital assets. Powered by Garbled Circuits, COTI’s solution for Decentralized Confidential Computing (DeCC), the platform will ensure a high degree of scalability, as well as low costs and real-time settlement, making on-chain bidding faster, more reliable, and more private than traditional EVM-based marketplaces.

Showcasing Garbled Circuits

COTI’s garbled circuits have recently been deployed in their first production use cases, which include supply chain logistics platform StaTwig and governance solution Syncra. There are dozens more projects in the pipeline, including both DeFi and non-financial applications.

Agora will showcase a new use for this technology. Nikos Consultancy, a full-stack development studio specializing in blockchain, AI, and distributed systems, is supported by COTI’s Builders Program. The initial phase of the project will see a proof of concept launched on COTI’s L2, offering private, decentralized, and trustless auctions.

Subsequent phases will see the platform built out into a modular platform supporting multiple auction models, multi-asset listings, and AI-powered bid analytics. Immediate next steps after initial mainnet deployment include:

Enabling verified user auctions through decentralized identity integration

Introducing cross-chain auction capabilities

Releasing a lightweight SDK for other projects to integrate COTI-based auctions seamlessly

Paving The Way For Builders

Agora is a real-world, high-frequency transaction use case that will highlight COTI’s advantage against a background of L2s and DeCC solutions, in particular, the network’s efficient and scalable privacy features.

However, COTI’s collaboration with Nikos Consultancy is about more than simply deploying Agora. The partnership is intended to contribute to COTI’s growing developer ecosystem by introducing a commercial-grade application that sets a blueprint for future dApps built using garbled circuits. There will be a particular emphasis on open integration, allowing other developers to build using Agora’s reusable components.

Alongside Yaru, our latest vibe coding initiative, Agora helps to position COTI as the ideal blockchain for privacy-focused Web3 builders. Follow the project on X for updates.

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“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.

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Programmable Privacy: A New Era for Blockchain was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

“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.

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The privacy infrastructure landscape is transforming rapidly. Zama is acquiring zero-knowledge (ZK) technology teams, Chainlink is partnering with major institutions, and AI is gaining privacy-preserving capabilities. These movements aren’t isolated headlines, they’re signalling the convergence of cryptography, interoperability, and intelligence into a new paradigm for Web3. The question is no longer if privacy infrastructure will define the next cycle, but what revolutionary applications it will unlock.

The New Privacy Landscape

At the heart of Web3’s evolution lies a fundamental shift in how data is protected and processed. The blockchain privacy space has evolved significantly, with various cryptographic approaches emerging to address on-chain confidentiality. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), multiparty computation (MPC), and Garbled Circuits (GC), each offer distinct advantages for different use cases. Players like Zama are advancing hybrid cryptography initiatives, while Chainlink extends authenticated data feeds to permissioned environments, all contributing to a maturing privacy stack.

COTI’s approach with Garbled Circuits technology (a cryptographic protocol theoretical since the 1980s), brings a unique performance profile to this landscape, running up to 3000x faster and and 250x lighter than its closest alternative FHE. As the first on-chain implementation of GC, COTI enables developers to build confidential applications without sacrificing speed or accessibility. Its combination of performance and compatibility with EVM and all other major chains, positions it as particularly well-suited for enterprise applications requiring both rapid computation and regulatory compliance.

Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is entering the blockchain arena equipped with privacy enhancements. AI models can analyze on-chain activity or user data which accelerates the need for on-chain privacy solutions as a foundational layer rather than an afterthought.

A Vision for 2026: The Rise of Confidential dApps

In 2026, the combination of confidentiality, composability, and decentralization will give rise to a new wave of killer applications. These won’t just replicate existing Web2 functions, they’ll redefine financial systems. The pillars of this revolution will include:

Confidential DeFi dark pools that enable large trades and institutional market-making without front-running or data leakage. These will be powered by privacy layers that can execute computations at high speed whilst matching traditional finance expectations in terms of privacy.

Privacy-preserving digital identity systems, allowing users to verify reputation, creditworthiness, or compliance on-chain without exposing personal data, a critical use case for enterprise adoption.

Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) will pick up pace thanks to privacy mechanisms that meet regulatory standards while maintaining user confidentiality, an area where compliant privacy infrastructure (providing transparency and confidentiality, not just anonymity) becomes essential.

Autonomous AI agents that act on behalf of users or DAOs with privacy and compliance built in will enable trustless collaboration between human and machine participants through secure multiparty computation.

L2 Migration and the Institutional Bridge

Layer 2 ecosystems are emerging as the perfect environment for this privacy transformation. Their scalability, composability, and ability to adopt novel cryptographic standards make them the ideal playground for confidential computation. Privacy-focused L2s that combine Ethereum’s security with lightweight, high-performance cryptographic protocols can offer institutions the performance and compliance they require without compromising decentralization.

COTI’s privacy solutions exemplify this approach by offering Programmable Privacy that will allow Institutions to confidently bridge into DeFi, bringing liquidity and legitimacy to the ecosystem. This will dissolve the long-standing divide between public transparency and regulated confidentiality.

COTI’s Visionary Role: Building the Privacy Infrastructure for Web3’s Future

COTI’s commitment to privacy isn’t reactive, it’s foundational to its identity. COTI stands at the intersection of compliance, usability, and innovation. By providing the fastest and lightest privacy layer live in the market, COTI enables developers to build the next generation of decentralized applications, those that require both transparency to function publicly and privacy to operate securely. From trade finance and healthcare to supply chain management and digital identity, COTI’s enterprise-grade infrastructure is designed for real-world applications that demand both performance and regulatory compliance.

As we approach 2026, the convergence of diverse privacy technologies, compliant infrastructure, and intelligent computation will define the next Web3 epoch. Different cryptographic approaches will serve complementary needs across the ecosystem and COTI is ready to lead the pack.

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Welcome to the next season of the COTI Earn rewards platform.

After a groundbreaking Genesis season, we’re raising the game, with new tasks, bigger rewards, and more ways to earn. Season 002 brings fresh partners, creative missions, and a wave of opportunities to climb the leaderboard and claim your share of 15 million $COTI in rewards!

COTI Earn mints real, liquid rewards, called Token Points (TPs), directly to your wallet every 24 hours. Every TPs is on-chain, verifiable, and redeemable for real $COTI at the end of the season.

Season 002: Uprising runs for 9 weeks, until January 13th, 2026. Let’s make this season even bigger!

New to COTI Earn? Check out the quick start guide here:

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This season introduces several exciting additions that expand how you can earn:

New Partner: Accumulated Finance
Stake wstCOTI on Accumulated Finance and earn 20 TPs per $10, daily.

Create to Earn
Help us tell the COTI story by generating your own creative content. Share your own content on X to earn TPs based on impressions.
Posts with 2,000+ views qualify for rewards.

Build to Earn (Coming Soon)
Experiment with private token creation on COTI. Deploy and transfer your own private token on COTI in return for TPs rewards in our first ever ‘Build’ mission.

Bonus Reward for Season 1 Holders
Hold your Season 1 Token Points (TPS001) through Season 002 to earn an extra 15% (min) on your TPs balance at the next claim period.

How to Earn

Just like before, TPs accrue automatically for core ecosystem activity. You can earn daily rewards just by:

Holding USDC, BTC, or ETH on the COTI Network

Depositing COTI or gCOTI to the Treasury

Depositing USDC to PriveX

Deploying USDC, BTC, ETH, COTI, or gCOTI to Carbon DeFi

Staking wstCOTI on Accumulated Finance.

If you’re already doing any of these, TPs will start flowing automatically to your wallet daily.

Join: https://earn.coti.io/earn

Follow this tutorial to quickly transfer assets from the Ethereum mainnet to the COTI network.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Beyond Anonymity: How COTI’s Auditable Privacy Solves the Privacy Dilemma for Institutions

With the EU’s 2027 privacy coin ban looming and the Samourai Wallet crackdown still reverberating across the crypto community, the market is urgently seeking a viable middle ground, one that protects privacy while satisfying regulatory demands. Absolute anonymity is dead in regulated markets; the future is with auditable privacy.

Regulatory Pressure and the End of Total Anonymity

Recent enforcement actions against privacy-focused technologies, such as the takedown of Samourai Wallet and the forthcoming restrictions under the EU’s MiCA framework, highlight a decisive regulatory attitude: any tool that aids in concealing financial flows is under threat. Regulators are determined to curb crypto’s role in money laundering and terrorism financing, even if that means restricting privacy tools once considered essential to blockchain’s ethos.

For institutional investors and enterprises, however, transparency cannot come at the expense of confidentiality. Corporate transactions contain sensitive strategic data, intellectual property, and competitive insights that cannot be exposed on a public ledger. Yet, linking one’s name, or one’s balance sheet, to a protocol known for illicit activity is a nonstarter. As COTI’s philosophy states: sensitive data on-chain is a bug, not a feature.

The Need for Confidentiality Without Concealment

Institutional capital demands an environment where sensitive information can remain private, but operations can still be proven legitimate. In other words, businesses need privacy from competitors, but transparency for regulators. This necessity creates a clear gap: between the overly transparent systems that leak sensitive business information and the overly private systems that attract legal jeopardy.

Legacy privacy tools such as Tornado Cash provided confidentiality through opaque mixing, completely stripping transaction links from their origin. But this ‘all-or-nothing’ approach also stripped accountability. Once funds entered the pool, all traceability was lost, creating a haven not only for legitimate users seeking discretion but also for bad actors, leading to the service being flagged, blocked or shadow banned by many exchanges and service providers. The industry needed a fundamentally different approach, one that could preserve confidentiality while enabling selective disclosure.

Introducing Auditable Privacy

Auditable privacy represents a new paradigm, one that allows selective visibility. Advanced cryptographic techniques make it possible to obscure transaction details from the public while granting permissioned access to regulators, auditors, or counterparties. This creates a regulated privacy model, where verification can occur without compromising confidentiality.

Under this model, financial institutions can maintain protected transactional data while still producing cryptographic proofs of compliance. This enables the creation of a trustworthy financial layer that satisfies both the need for security and the demand for transparency, what COTI has termed ‘compliant privacy’: transparency and confidentiality combined, rather than just anonymity.

How COTI Delivers Compliant Privacy at Scale

COTI’s approach addresses this challenge through its privacy-first Ethereum Layer 2, built on Garbled Circuits technology, a cryptographic protocol theoretical since the 1980s but implemented on blockchain for the first time by COTI. This breakthrough delivers multi-party computation (MPC) capabilities that enable secure, private transactions without revealing underlying data, while maintaining the ability for selective disclosure to authorized parties.

What makes COTI’s solution particularly suited for institutional adoption is its unique combination of performance and compliance. Garbled Circuits technology is up to 3000x faster than Fully Homomorphic Encryption and 250x lighter than alternative privacy solutions, making it deployable on any device while maintaining enterprise-grade security. This performance advantage, developed in partnership with Soda Labs, enables real-world applications in finance, healthcare, trade finance, and identity management, sectors where both speed and confidentiality are non-negotiable.

Leverages Garbled Circuits for secure, lightweight multi-party computation

Enables selective, permissioned access for auditors and regulators through built-in compliance mechanisms

Preserves enterprise confidentiality without exposing transaction data to public observation

Prevents misuse by supporting auditable privacy rather than untraceable anonymity

Fully EVM-compatible through gcEVM, allowing developers to build privacy-preserving applications in Solidity

Instead of rejecting regulatory realities, COTI builds them into its architecture from the ground up. The network operates as an Ethereum Layer 2, secured by Ethereum’s infrastructure while adding a privacy layer that enterprises can trust. Its auditable privacy solution reconciles the need for business confidentiality with global compliance standards, a feat unattainable by the absolute anonymity of mixers or the full transparency of public chains.

The Path Forward

As 2027 approaches and the curtain falls on privacy coins within the EU, institutional adoption of blockchain technology will hinge on solutions that embody both integrity and discretion. COTI’s auditable privacy sits precisely at this intersection. It transforms privacy from a regulatory risk into a compliance advantage, offering a sustainable path for institutions to embrace blockchain without compromise.

With mainnet launched in 2025 and a growing developer ecosystem supported by Hardhat environments and comprehensive tooling, COTI is positioning compliant privacy as essential infrastructure rather than an optional feature. For enterprises navigating the complex intersection of confidentiality requirements and regulatory obligations, this represents not just a technical solution but a fundamental shift in how privacy can work on public blockchains.

The message is clear: the future of privacy in crypto is not about hiding, it’s about proving. COTI’s Garbled Circuits-powered Layer 2 provides the trust layer that bridges regulators and innovators alike, enabling the confidential on-chain transactions that will power the next generation of institutional blockchain adoption.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Since our recent announcement on the launch of private transactions and tokens now live on MetaMask by COTI, the news has sparked interest across the Web3 community and media outlets. This integration marks a major step toward making on-chain privacy accessible to every user and developer.
Here’s a look at some of the top stories covering the launch:

COTI Brings Private Tokens to MetaMask - with a 500 $COTI Giveaway for Early Users

MetaMask Users Can Now Send and Receive Private Tokens With COTI Integration

COTI Integrates Private Tokens into MetaMask via New Privacy Snap Extension

COTI Integrates Private Tokens into MetaMask via New Privacy Snap Extension

https://financefeeds.com/coti-brings-private-tokens-to-metamask-with-new-privacy-snap-integration/

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/coti-integrates-metamask-to-enable-private-token-transfers/

Stay COTI!

For all of our updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

We’re excited to share that for the very first time you can now connect, view, send, receive, and manage private tokens directly through MetaMask.

Private tokens give individuals and businesses the privacy they need to operate securely in Web3, unlocking a huge range of real-world applications. We’re not talking about anonymity, we’re talking about selective disclosure, permissioned privacy, to facilitate confidential payments and private stablecoins, private DeFi strategies, DAO governance voting, supply chain settlements, and identity credentials. Across the board, privacy can be used to protect sensitive data, prevent front-running, and enable selective disclosure for compliance.

Today’s announcement marks a major step for COTI in bringing privacy and private tokens into the mainstream, making them directly accessible to users and developers through Metamask, the most widely used wallet in Web3.

Adding the Privacy Extension to MetaMask

Integration is through a MetaMask Snap, a secure MetaMask extension that adds new capabilities directly into your wallet. In this case, the COTI Snap gives MetaMask the ability to handle private transactions and token balances.

Connecting to the COTI Snap is easy:

Go to the COTI Snap Integration Page at metamask.coti.io and click “Connect to MetaMask”

Approve the Snap installation when prompted, and add your preferred wallet address to send/receive private tokens. Follow this step-by-step guide: How to Connect the COTI MetaMask Snap

Congratulations, your wallet is one of the first to send and receive private tokens!

Celebrate with a Giveaway!

It’s such a momentous occasion that we’re celebrating with a giveaway. We’ll be dropping private ‘LOOT’ tokens to all $COTI holders with a balance above $1000 $COTI. The first 100 wallets to send them back to 0x0bf9c15cbd9f0fac9fc6ab90f0603e89818489bd using the new MetaMask Snap will receive 500 COTI tokens each!

Why Does this Matter?

Today’s launch lays the foundation for an on-chain privacy ecosystem that is both production-ready and user-accessible. You can now enjoy:

Seamless interaction with privacy tokens

Better wallet UX for developers building privacy-centric dApps

A more secure and private experience in Web3, without sacrificing usability

This integration brings privacy tokens out of the infrastructure layer and into the hands of users and developers, marking the start of a busy season for COTI.

See It in Action

Watch the demo:

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For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Reverly is an AI-powered messaging app that allows users to call, message, and send crypto, even when they don’t have internet access!

Today, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Reverly that will see COTI’s privacy technology power Reverly’s secure communication and crypto features.

We’re all familiar with messaging apps, but also with their drawbacks. Privacy and censorship concerns surrounding messaging apps are a hot topic at the moment, as governments across the globe are constantly trying to mandate backdoor access. That’s not to mention our overreliance on internet access for communication. When coverage is limited, or during emergencies, infrastructure can fail when we need it most.

Now, AI-powered messaging app Reverly offers a solution to both issues. Reverly allows users to call, send messages, and even make crypto transactions without internet access. It achieves this using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) to create mesh networks with other devices. While online communication is the default, this means Reverly can still work without ISPs and centralized servers.

Now add COTI’s garbled circuits encryption to this already powerful functionality, and you’ve got a messaging solution that is censorship-resistant, borderless, and can support emergency communication even when traditional networks are down.

Solving The Global Connectivity Challenge

Globally, there is a digital divide. 2.9 billion people live with unreliable internet access due to censorship, natural disasters, high costs, or simply living off-grid. Alongside this, we are all aware of growing privacy issues, with large-scale surveillance eroding free speech and undermining democracy.

Reverly is integrating COTI’s groundbreaking privacy solution to provide shielded, privacy-first communication and crypto transactions, keeping people connected and empowered, 24/7/365, whether they’re online or offline.

“COTI is teaming up with Reverly to bridge the digital divide. People in the most remote and underdeveloped regions can now message, connect, and use social networks without needing an active internet connection.” — Reverly

Just some of the use cases for Reverly’s garbled circuits-powered offline messaging app include:

Privacy-preserving messaging and transactions

Offline crypto transfers

Enabling critical communication during disasters

Connectivity for remote and underserved regions

Censorship-resistance

COTI and Reverly

Reverly is offering a series of attractive perks to the COTI community. 500 early adopters from the COTI ecosystem will receive premium subscriptions to Reverly, and COTI community members can beta test the app to earn rewards.

The partnership also serves an important role in expanding COTI’s reach into rural and underserved areas that were previously disconnected from the digital world. It strengthens both ecosystems by bridging privacy, connectivity, and AI-powered messaging, opening new markets to each and pioneering new use cases for different technologies.

Check out www.reverly.org for more information, and follow the project on X and Telegram to join the waiting list and be one of the first to experience COTI-powered privacy with Reverly!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We are pleased to announce that on October 19, 2025, at 12:00 PM UTC, COTI will undergo a network upgrade, marking a pivotal milestone in the network’s continued evolution.

The upgrade will occur automatically, requiring no action from users. All network participants, wallets, and nodes will transition seamlessly. With each release, we strengthen our infrastructure, guided not just by technical ambition but by the needs of our ecosystem: developers, enterprise partners, and users alike.

What’s included in the upgrade?

This upgrade includes significant protocol-level enhancements and introduces the first formal hard fork of the COTI network, known as ‘Hydrogen’. It includes a range of backend improvements focused on stability, cryptographic security, and long-term maintainability.

Following a comprehensive audit earlier this year, we’ve implemented critical refinements to both the MPC (Multi-Party Computation) and gcEVM components. These changes ensure COTI continues to lead with private, enterprise-ready infrastructure that’s resilient under load, efficient in execution, and secure at the core.

For instance, within MPC, we’ve introduced safer file-handling mechanisms, reinforced the randomness used in cryptographic operations, and improved memory hygiene by ensuring sensitive data is wiped from memory during cleanup. Enhancements to connection handling under high-concurrency conditions also make the network more robust in real-world usage scenarios.

On the gcEVM side, this upgrade tightens protocol validation, improves error-handling within opcode execution, and streamlines block processing. In fact, it brings all network participants under a more secure, consistent execution standard. This isn’t just an optimization, it’s a foundational shift that increases trust and reliability across the ecosystem.

No Action Required

As with previous upgrades, end users and token holders don’t need to take any action. Your assets will remain completely secure, with no anticipated disruption to network operations. All Node operators have already upgraded to the latest software release ahead of time.

Looking Forward

We are one step closer to realizing the long-term vision of the COTI protocol. By reinforcing the underlying architecture, we’re setting the foundation for broader adoption, increased interoperability, and a more reliable ecosystem for privacy-preserving, high-performance applications.

We will continue to iterate, refine, and ship improvements that align with our technology, vision, and the dynamic needs of our partners. The upgrade reminds us that meaningful evolution doesn’t have to be disruptive, it can be deliberate, forward-looking, and built to last.

Stay tuned for further updates, and as always,
Stay COTI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

The future of tech isn’t being built, it’s being co-created, with you at the helm.

Have you ever had a big idea for a product, business, or service, or even a little idea that doesn’t fit a category yet? Well, it’s time to make that dream a reality.

We’re thrilled to announce Yaru, a bold new initiative on a mission to support the next wave of creators.

With the rise of ‘Vibe Coding’ and ‘Vibe Marketing’, a new, intuitive, and creative approach to development is possible. Using AI, anyone can now ideate, create, and launch all manner of outcomes, whether it’s a product, business, or event. No code or crypto knowledge needed.

But where to start?
That’s where Yaru comes in, supporting you with structured programs, events, and outreach to help achieve your goals. And like its namesake (Yaru is Japanese for ‘What are you going to do?), the world of possibilities is at your fingertips.

At the core of Yaru is a collaborative spirit, bringing people together to build real world outcomes, break down technical barriers, and unlock their full potential.

Yaru also opens the door to Web3, offering guided sessions on how to build with blockchain. You’ll have the opportunity to explore COTI’s privacy-first tools and learn how to bring them into your projects, seamlessly. It’s all about giving you the confidence to experiment and create without limits.

From confidential payments to building on-chain loyalty systems or decentralized data flows, the use cases are endless.

Yaru: Build By Doing

Following the momentum of our Stay COTI Builder program and the success of our live vibe coding sessions in Bangkok, we are offering a six-week open build program, led by COTI CEPO Joshua Maddox.

This ‘AI Camp’ is a hands-on experience that will take you deeper into the design and build process, using AI tools in real time, with expert guidance from the Yaru team.

The approach? Inclusive. Social. Creative.
You’re encouraged to build it your way, while Yaru provides the environment, the tools, and the community to support your vision. You’ll also be encouraged to document your journey, through code, blogs, videos, or whatever suits your style, contributing to a shared resource for future builders.

Here for the Journey

Anyone can join in online. We’ll share the build journey publicly each week, so stay tuned to our channels. And of course, our Stay COTI livestreams will continue to bring you the latest tutorials on a wide range of AI tools and techniques.

Join The First ‘AI Camp’ Cohort!

So if you have a great idea for a new product or service, or would like help in developing one, and don’t know how to get started, then Yaru is for you. Join us online, or in person at the Yaru office in Bangkok, and in just six weeks, you can make your dream a reality.

Ready to join the movement?
Discover more at Create.Yaru.AI
Submit the form to apply to join the first AI camp, starting Today!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Privacy was already one of 2025’s most important trends for Web3, but ZCash’s meteoric rise over the past month has thrown the topic of confidential transactions back into the spotlight. After years in the shade, this pioneer of privacy coins is surging back, and some in our community have been asking: how does COTI compare to ZCash? Both tackle the urgent topic of Web3 privacy, but in very different ways.
Let’s take a look at the key comparisons.

The Top Line

ZCash pioneered the use of zero-knowledge cryptography for confidential transactions, offering optional privacy on its own L1. Though groundbreaking for its time, ZCash is, by today’s standards, somewhat limited in its use cases. COTI targets the next step, programmable privacy, using garbled circuits to run private smart contracts across multi-party workflows. Early benchmarks report a materially higher throughput and a design aimed at low-cost, scalable confidential computation, enabling COTI to pick up where ZCash left off.

Two Generations of Blockchain Privacy

Both COTI and ZCash are OGs of the crypto space. ZCash was founded by Zooko Wilcox, along with a team of scientists from MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Technion, and launched in 2016. COTI was founded shortly afterwards, in 2017, and also comprised scientists from Technion. COTI started out as a high-scale payments platform before shifting its focus to privacy, collaborating with Soda Labs to advance its cryptographic foundations. This work culminated in the launch of COTI V2 mainnet in March 2025, marking a major step forward in scalable, programmable privacy.

ZCash’s private transfers are based on zk-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge). It claims OG status for being the first blockchain to implement this type of cryptography into its consensus rules. ZCash allows users to prove that a transaction is valid without revealing any information about the sender, receiver, or transaction amount. While this is powerful cryptography, it does not support use cases that require inputs from two or more parties.

COTI’s privacy protocol uses Garbled Circuits (GCs) to enable multiple parties to compute over encrypted data without ever revealing their inputs. Each step of the computation is encrypted using NIST-standard cryptography, keeping all data and results fully confidential.

While zero-knowledge proofs are designed to prove information without revealing it, garbled circuits allow the network to compute over encrypted data without disclosing any of it, an approach that enables much richer functionality. COTI’s garbled circuits also support multi-party computation, since there is no limit to the number of inputs a circuit can have, or who can provide them.

In terms of speed and cost, ZCash manages confidentiality via shielded transactions, which are computationally large due to the inclusion of a zero-knowledge proof. ZCash can support around 3–12 confidential transactions per second (cTPS), whereas COTI has benchmarked speeds capable of supporting over 80 cTPS, and averaging out over 40 TPS. Both protocols have very low transaction costs of under $0.01.

Together, ZCash and COTI represent two generations of blockchain privacy. ZCash proved that confidential transfers were possible on a public ledger, laying the foundation for privacy in crypto. COTI expands the scope of privacy with programmable, multi-party privacy designed for the complex needs of modern Web3. It transforms privacy from a single feature into a core layer of computation.

Broad vs. Narrow Utility

ZCash is designed to do one thing well: simple, confidential transfers. It is not a smart contract platform and cannot be used for dApps or more complex Web3 services.

COTI, on the other hand, is an EVM-compatible platform, capable of supporting dApps of theoretically any complexity. Garbled circuits can be used to execute any type of operation, with COTI’s confidential transactions being well-suited to a wide range of use cases.

COTI excels at handling the complexities of DeFi operations, including cross-chain privacy. It can support confidential smart contracts for all manner of programmatic and compliant blockchain uses, such as private DAOs, stablecoins, real-world assets (RWAs), and AI in the form of private federated learning. Owing to its programmable privacy, it is possible to provide auditability and maintain compliance, opening the doors to institutional adoption.

Network Value

At the time of writing, ZCash is trading around $260/ZEC, with a total market cap of around $1.4 billion, though that’s changing fast.

COTI, meanwhile, is trading just over $0.05 and has a market cap of $125 million.

Summary

ZCash pioneered the use of zero-knowledge cryptography for confidential transfers. While the system was revolutionary for its time, it is suited only to simple transactions and not for the kind of programmable, composable privacy required by today’s DeFi and Web3 applications.

COTI’s architecture, by contrast, provides a lightweight, flexible means of executing confidential transactions of all types. It is high-scale, low-cost, and supports multi-party computation and cross-chain interoperability. These features make COTI an ideal choice for privacy-preserving functions across the broadest spectrum of use cases.

Stay COTI!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Combining convenience with robust security, United Network’s NFC wallet makes self-custody crypto transactions as simple as tapping a card.

COTI’s latest partnership is an exciting one, as we work with United Network to enable user-friendly but non-custodial transactions using a cold storage wallet that can be accessed on every smartphone via an NFC chip — the same technology used by millions of people everyday for tap payments.

Security And Convenience

United Network’s solution brings together the flexibility of multi-chain transactions with the accessibility of NFC payments and the control of self-custody. The wallet can send, receive, store, and swap crypto, without exposing sensitive information to the web. Transactions are created and signed directly on the chip, which pairs with a phone to broadcast them and transfer assets.

The result is a new kind of hardware wallet that is not just secure but extremely user friendly. Private keys never leave the card, and communication between the NFC and the user’s smartphone uses top-tier FIDO security standards. Self custody becomes as straightforward as shopping at the supermarket.

“Our vision at United Network has always centered on making true self-custody feel as simple and intuitive as tapping a credit card. However, simplicity must be built upon robust infrastructure. That is precisely why our strategic partnership with COTI is so critical. This collaboration accelerates our path toward a decentralized future where secure, everyday transactions are seamless, private, and accessible to everyone, finally bridging the gap between mainstream usability and institutional-grade Web3 infrastructure.” — Danylo Rumiantsev, Co-founder of United Network

Paving The Way For COTI Adoption

The partnership is a natural one for COTI. Adding native support for COTI’s L2 and tokens is a powerful way to drive adoption, as it appeals both to those who value non-custodial solutions but find current hardware wallets too complex or inconvenient, and those who prioritize simplicity but also want to ensure safety. United plans to implement COTI’s privacy solution, based on garbled circuits, into the United Network Wallet — giving users enhanced confidentiality while transacting on the COTI network.

As part of the collaboration, the company is offering a promotional code for a 30% discount on the cost of their flagship Card Wallet. Use this link to purchase the wallet, and apply promo code COTI30 at the checkout.

Further down the line, United will explore creating a series of COTI-themed hardware wallets. As well as distinctive COTI branding, these could include additional interface elements, potentially enabling COTI’s users to access more advanced and bespoke functionality.

Alongside all this, United continues to build out their core offering, and is working on integrating more swap providers to facilitate more efficient in-wallet token exchanges. Further ahead, the company is focusing on self-custody for real-world assets (also a major area of interest for COTI), on-chain identity, and gasless transactions.

To find out more, visit United.Network, follow the project on X, and join the Telegram group.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Welcome to Season 001: Genesis, the official launch season of the COTI Earn rewards platform!

Forget empty airdrops, forget backend points you’ll never claim, COTI Earn mints actual tokens, called Token Points (TPs), to your wallet every 24 hours, making it a real liquid rewards platform.

Whether you’re holding tokens, referring friends, engaging with partner dApps or completing missions, every action earns TPs which are redeemable for real $COTI. 12.5 million COTI in rewards are up for grabs this season, which will run for 6 weeks until 11th November 2025. Stack TPs then change them for your share of $COTI at season’s end. Let’s go!

Accumulating TPs is easy. You can:

Hold USDC, BTC or ETH on the COTI network,

Deposit COTI and gCOTI to the Treasury,

Deposit USDC to PriveX

Deposit USDC, BTC, ETH, COTI or gCOTI to Carbon DeFi.

Follow this tutorial to quickly transfer assets from the Ethereum mainnet to the COTI network.

If you already do any of these, TPs will start to accrue into your wallet daily. But there are lots of other ways to benefit from COTI Earn. A referral program offers you the equivalent of 5% of your referrals’ TPs balance. There’s no limit to the number of referrals and no cap on your earnings, so the more you grow the network, the more you earn.

You can also earn badges for set activities, which will be issued as NFTs at the end of the season.

In addition to this, you can also earn just by:

Transacting on COTI Network to become one of our ‘Top Gas Spenders’

Joining COTI’s channels and undertaking social tasks

Completing Quizzes

We’ve designed COTI Earn to be as frictionless as possible and deeply integrated with the rest of the COTI ecosystem. Check out our guide here to get started!

Rewarding Early Adopters

As it’s Season 001, early users can gain a massive edge in the leaderboard rankings, referral rewards, and ecosystem visibility, plus you can earn a coveted Privacy Pioneer badge. This is your chance to be early, earn more, and help propel Web3 privacy narrative. Look out for new tasks dropping throughout the season too for extra rewards.

Don’t forget, at the end of the Season, you can convert your TPs into claimable $COTI, distributed directly to your wallet.

Whether you’re a trader, builder, referrer, creator, or long-term holder, COTI Earn rewards you for being part of the movement.

👉 Visit earn.coti.io to connect your wallet and start climbing the leaderboard today.

Stay COTI!

What Is COTI?

COTI is a privacy-first infrastructure layer powering programmable, scalable, and composable finance on-chain. With the rise of real-world assets (RWAs), tokenized money, and institutional DeFi, COTI enables private computation and confidential transactions on public blockchains, without sacrificing speed or usability.

Its privacy layer is powered by Garbled Circuits, a breakthrough cryptographic technique that enables selective disclosure, zero-knowledge execution, and trustless confidentiality across chains.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

With COTI Earn now live, now’s the perfect time to walk you through what’s coming!

What is COTI Earn?

COTI Earn is a new seasonal rewards platform and the loyalty platform of COTI, where every interaction becomes a reward.

By holding, trading, referring, and engaging, you earn Token Points (TPs) - minted daily and sent directly to your wallet.

At the end of each season, TPs can be claimed and converted into $COTI.
Season 001 (Genesis) runs for 6 weeks, with 12.5M $COTI allocated for rewards!

Highlights:

Earn while you hold - Hold selected assets on the COTI Network to earn daily rewards. The more you hold, the more you earn

All rewards are liquid - TPs are on-chain, daily, and yours to keep

Badges - Unlock badge NFTs for being early and being active

Built for everyone - From traders to referrers to day-one believers

Seasonal drops - New missions bring new rewards and fresh reasons to connect

Every action = TPs = $COTI - Simple as that

It’s easy to join COTI Earn

Go to COTI Earn and connect your wallet
In the top-right corner, click the Connect Wallet button.

A pop-up will appear with several wallet options.
Select the wallet you prefer, in this guide we use MetaMask as an example.

MetaMask will open and show your available accounts.
Choose the account you want and click Connect.

*If you haven’t added COTI Network to MetaMask yet, follow the guide here.

Verify Your Wallet

Back on the COTI Earn site, you’ll be asked to verify your account.
Click Sign message to continue.

MetaMask will display a sign-in request from earn.coti.io.
Review the details and click Confirm to complete the connection.

Awesome, your wallet is connected!

Earn Page

The Earn page is packed with missions. Here you’ll find:

Deposit & Hold Missions: Earn TPs by holding USDC, BTC, ETH on COTI Network. If you don’t hold these assets, use the Hyperlane Nexus bridge to convert to USDC-e, wETH and wBTC for use on COTI Network.
For native COTI, use MetaMask and the COTI Bridge.

Featured Opportunities: A highlighted mission carrying higher rewards

Daily Activities: Repeatable tasks to gain extra TPs.

Connect to Earn: Social missions (follow on X, join Telegram/Discord, subscribe on YouTube).
Note: Social missions are verified through Snag, COTI’s partner, to make sure your actions are tracked correctly and TPs are awarded.

Create Page

The Create page focuses on community-driven content and special activities. Here you’ll find:

Featured Opportunity: Timed missions like posting an X thread to celebrate COTI Earn.

Quizzes: Learn and earn by completing quizzes.

Social Tasks: Simple actions such as signing up for the newsletter or sharing on X.

Dashboard Overview

The Dashboard is the central place where you can see your progress, rewards, badges, and ranking. Here you’ll find:

Your TP balance: Token Points (TPs) are minted daily and sent directly to your wallet. See your balance updating every day.

Claiming $COTI: At the end of each season, you can use the Claim button to convert your TPs into $COTI. The claim window is open for 21 days. Any badges you’ve earned will also be delivered as NFTs during this period.

My Rewards: Token Points (TPs) earned this season and all-time, with a countdown to season end and option to claim.

My Badges: Achievements unlocked by completing missions and milestones. Badges are issued as NFTs at the end of each season (e.g. Privacy Pioneer, COTI Champion, Elite Earner).

Leaderboard: Your personal rank plus the global top earners.

Referrals

Generate your referral code to invite friends and earn rewards. You’ll earn the equivalent of 5% of their TPs daily, while they receive a 50 TPs welcome bonus.

COTI Earn makes it easy to turn your activity in the COTI ecosystem into rewards. By connecting your wallet, exploring the Dashboard, completing missions in the Earn and Create tabs, and engaging with the community, you collect Token Points (TPs) that can be claimed for $COTI at the end of each season.

Start small with simple social tasks or deposits, climb the leaderboard, unlock badges, and maximize your rewards.

Scenarios and opportunities

Below are a few illustrative scenarios that highlight how different types of users might experience COTI Earn.

*The numerical data in this article, such as the APY figures, are for explanatory purposes only and do not represent guaranteed outcomes. Actual figures will vary according to market and network conditions throughout the season.

Scenario 1: The Passive Holder

Even without complex strategies, users can benefit just by holding. For example, USDC.e stored throughout all of the season in a non-custodial wallet could yield, under reasonable assumptions of TP distribution, an estimated APY boost of nearly 70%. This makes COTI Earn accessible to users who simply want to keep their assets safe while still participating in network rewards.

Scenario 2: The Engaged Participant

For users who choose to connect their assets to integrated dApps such as PriveX or Carbon DeFi, the estimated potential returns may rise under the same assumptions to nearly 90% APY. This path demonstrates how active interaction with the ecosystem can unlock higher opportunities compared to passive holding.

Scenario 3: The Committed COTI Holder

COTI token holders who stake their $COTI in the Treasury can further enhance their position with an additional estimated 15% APY boost in addition to their treasury rewards. This layer of rewards reinforces the long-term value of holding and supporting the native token.

Scenario 4: The Explorer of Missions

Beyond holding and staking, COTI Earn introduces on-chain and social missions that give participants the chance to unlock even greater boosts. By engaging in these missions, users can combine financial incentives with community interaction and growth, further boosting their TPs share.

Rewards are distributed every 24 hours as Token Points (TPs), minted and sent directly to user wallets. Over the course of each season, all APY boosts accumulate in TPs, which can then be redeemed at the season’s conclusion through the COTI Earn Dashboard for a share of the total $COTI rewards pool.

New missions and dApps will be added during the season with more opportunities to earn rewards! We hope you will join us for this journey into COTI Earn, and don’t forget to invite your friends!

FAQs

Can I transfer my TPs?
Yes. TPs are ERC-based tokens minted daily to your wallet. You can transfer them between EVM wallets after they’re minted. You can redeem your TPs for $COTI at the end of the season. The claim window will be open for 21 days. Check out the COTI Earn Dashboard for more details.

What data does COTI collect?
COTI Earn only uses wallet addresses, IP, and activity related to the platform (missions, holdings, referrals, etc.). No KYC or personal information is required or collected.

When can I see the TPs in my wallet?
TPs are minted daily starting at 9:00 AM UTC. They should appear in your wallet shortly after minting.

What happens if I change wallets mid-season?
Rewards are tied to your connected wallet. If you switch wallets, TPs won’t carry over, so it’s best to stick with one wallet for the season.

Can I carry my TPs over to the next season?
No. TPs are season-specific. Their redemption applies to that season’s claim window only (21 days). When the claim window closes, you can no longer redeem that seasons TPs for $COTI rewards.

What if I lost access to my wallet?
Since TPs are on-chain and tied to your wallet address, they can’t be recovered if you lose access to your wallet. Make sure you keep your wallet safe.

Who can participate? Do I need to KYC to participate?
No. Anyone with a supported wallet can join.

How do I connect my wallet? What wallets are supported?
We recommend MetaMask but other wallets are supported. Read our guide for full details.

How do I redeem TPs for $COTI?
At the end of each season, go to your Dashboard and click they Claim button. You will have 21 days to redeem your TPs for $COTI. $COTI rewards are sent directly to your connected wallet.

Is there a cap on how much $COTI I can earn?
Your $COTI rewards depend on the share of TPs you earned in relation to other users on COTI Earn each season. Check out the Leaderboard in the Dashboard to track your progress against others.

What happens when a season ends?
Any Badges earned during the season are issued as NFTs to qualifying users. $COTI is divided proportionally amongst TPs holders and the Claim button will become active within the Dashboard for users to be able to redeem for $COTI.
There will be a short setup phase of a few days before a new season begins with new missions and rewards.

How can I report a problem?
Simply click the ‘?’ icon in the bottom-right corner of the page to open a ticket and get in touch with our support team.

New missions and dApps will be added during the season with more opportunities to earn rewards! We hope you will join us for this journey into COTI Earn, and don’t forget to invite your friends!

As always, Stay COTI!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

COTI partners with Lanstellar with aim to advance real-world asset (RWA) adoption, enabling traditionally illiquid assets to be used as DeFi collateral.

Real-world assets (RWAs) are the largest and most exciting trend in DeFi, projected to become a $30 trillion sector by 2030. COTI has gone all-in on RWAs, understanding that privacy is fundamental to widespread institutional adoption. Our latest partnership with Nigeria-based Lanstellar underscores why RWAs are such a powerful development, bridging the gap between institutional capital demand and DeFi liquidity at scale.

Lanstellar: AI-Powered Multi-Chain RWA Liquidity

Lanstellar is an Al-powered liquidity protocol that enables instant stablecoin loans against real-world assets on multiple blockchain platforms. Our partnership extends Lanstellar’s reach to COTI, a leader in the RWA space and the ideal platform for building out their infrastructure and liquidity.

Real-world assets include stocks, bonds, commodities, and other traditional investments, which trade openly on global markets. However, it is also possible to tokenize other assets, such as real estate, diamonds, paintings, and more exotic instruments like accounts payable and royalty streams. Once tokenized, these unusual assets can be efficiently valued by blockchain protocols, and used as DeFi collateral — freeing up otherwise inaccessible liquidity. Lanstellar allows users to take out loans against tokenized assets, using AI to power its credit-scoring model.

“This partnership with COTI is a pivotal step for Lanstellar. By integrating with their blockchain protocol, we’re not just expanding our technological capabilities, we’re building the secure, scalable and compliant foundation necessary to connect global DeFi liquidity with the real-world financial needs of Africa. It marks a new era for financial inclusion, powered by the secure and trusted infrastructure of COTI.” — Femi Adegolu, Creator of Lanstellar

Lanstellar’s Roadmap

Over the coming weeks, Lanstellar will finalize their smart contracts and AI credit model, before launching in beta on COTI L2. They will then seek to secure initial liquidity for the protocol, and aim to launch the platform with a number of pilot loans.

All being well from Q2 next year, Lanstellar will focus on growth, optimizing the platform and its multi-chain functionality, and implementing a user-friendly dashboard for microfinance banks (MFBs): companies licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide financial services such as savings and deposits, loans, domestic funds transfer, and various other services.

The third phase, from mid-2027, will see Lanstellar aiming to scale to become a dominant player in the RWA space, growing from $50 million to over $200 million in AUM. Ultimately, the goal is to become a highly liquid and active ecosystem of partners and users, powered by a robust and liquid protocol.

Leveraging COTI

COTI is the ideal platform for Lanstellar’s AI-powered RWA lending protocol. COTI’s infrastructure not only offers robust and optional privacy, but is fast and high-scale. Every time verification is completed or data is recorded by Lanstellar, this will require an on-chain operation, and the steady stream of transactions must be executed securely and efficiently.

Lanstellar’s growth will provide increasing value to COTI’s validator ecosystem. There are further benefits to COTI in terms of reputation and trust, since the collaboration will showcase a successful model for bridging traditional centralized finance (CeFi) institutions with the DeFi space, and providing verifiable, on-chain proof of asset verification — demonstrating the benefits of blockchain infrastructure, as well as the utility of on-chain assets.

Find out more by following Lanstellar on X and LinkedIn, and visit Lanstellar.com.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We are excited to announce our partnership with Accumulated Finance, a platform that combines liquid staking and lending to offer leveraged staking.

Accumulated Finance is integrating its staking and lending dApps with COTI V2’s EVM-compatible L2, enabling users to stake COTI with leverage, increasing their potential returns. Future plans include leveraging COTI’s unique privacy features for enhanced transaction security and cross-chain support , as well as their upcoming $ACFI airdrop!

What Is Liquid Staking?

Proof-of-Stake chains like Ethereum and COTI are secured by validators, who lock or “stake” the native platform token in return for their work in processing transactions and maintaining the integrity of the decentralized ledger. In return, validators receive a share of transaction fees, and often block rewards. However, staked tokens cannot be sold, transferred, or used as collateral in other DeFi dApps.

Liquid staking solves this problem by issuing a token that represents a claim on the underlying asset — for example, stETH (staked ETH), or stCOTI. This token can be deposited to other dApps and used to earn a return. Anyone who holds the liquid staking token can redeem it for the staked asset.

Accumulated Finance combines this functionality with decentralized lending, enabling users to leverage their holdings trustlessly.

“With COTI, we’re delivering a seamless solution for users to stake and leverage COTI up to 50x, unlocking new DeFi opportunities with privacy at the core.” Anton Ilzheev, founder of Accumulated Finance

$ACFI Airdrop Snapshot

COTI is the latest of dozens of platforms to be connected to Accumulated Finance, with 5+0 chains expected by 2026.

As Accumulated grows its omni-chain ecosystem, the platform has announced the $ACFI token, which is currently in presale on the company’s website. $ACFI will power the Accumulated EVM (AEVM) and drive rewards across the ecosystem.

COTI users may also benefit from the connectivity of Accumulated Finance’s cross-chain AEVM, which will link COTI with other supported platforms. Future plans include integrating COTI’s privacy solution into the AEVM, for greater security and compliant confidentiality.

Visit Accumulated Finance to learn more, follow Accumulated Finance on X for more information, or join the discussion in their Telegram group.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io