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Confidentiality will continue to unlock new institutional capital onchain. This is just the start. $13 million has already been deposited into the Morpho 🦋 vault accepting confidential USDC (cUSDC) as the deposit asset. Public blockchains expose every position, every trade, every strategy. For institutions managing real capital, that's a...

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"It's not a swap. The way it works is more like ETH and wrapped ETH, you deposit USDC into the confidential USDC contract ... the contract mints the same amount you deposited as confidential USDC" Rand, founder of Zama, breaks down how confidential assets actually work without bridging "Sure, people can see how much you deposited, because by definition that's public, but from that point every transfer you make, every token you receive is shielded" "People don't know how much you're moving around, how much your balance ends up being, whether you're swapping or depositing into the Steakhouse Morpho vault confidentially. Nobody has any idea how much money you have. And the beautiful thing is you're on Ethereum, we're not asking you to use a new L1. It's Ethereum with encryption" "If you swap shielded USDC into some new altcoin, that's not shielded, and that's the reason we're adding more and more assets to the protocol, so you never have to. You can go from shielded asset to shielded asset. There's no reason to ever unshield if every wallet, every exchange, every swap, every lending protocol supports shielded assets, and that's the goal"
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"It's not a swap. The way it works is more like ETH and wrapped ETH, you deposit USDC into the confidential USDC contract ... the contract mints the same amount you deposited as confidential USDC" Rand, founder of Zama, breaks down how confidential assets actually work without bridging "Sure, people can see how much you deposited, because by definition that's public, but from that point every transfer you make, every token you receive is shielded" "People don't know how much you're moving around, how much your balance ends up being, whether you're swapping or depositing into the Steakhouse Morpho vault confidentially. Nobody has any idea how much money you have. And the beautiful thing is you're on Ethereum, we're not asking you to use a new L1. It's Ethereum with encryption" "If you swap shielded USDC into some new altcoin, that's not shielded, and that's the reason we're adding more and more assets to the protocol, so you never have to. You can go from shielded asset to shielded asset. There's no reason to ever unshield if every wallet, every exchange, every swap, every lending protocol supports shielded assets, and that's the goal"

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13,246 views • 1 year ago

Large trades don’t happen in the public mempool. Rand explains how Zama’s Confidential RFQ lets traders submit encrypted intents onchain, while market makers compete to fill them without seeing the trade size, direction, or assets.
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Large trades don’t happen in the public mempool. Rand explains how Zama’s Confidential RFQ lets traders submit encrypted intents onchain, while market makers compete to fill them without seeing the trade size, direction, or assets.

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186,891 views • 1 month ago

"Confidentiality growing will definitely be a major thing to help institutional actors move to the blockchain: interbank settlements that want to remain private, or just to move some of our day-to-day finances." — Hadrien Croubois, Smart Contract Engineer at OpenZeppelin From the Zama Builder Villa at EthCC[9]: Hadrien on why confidentiality is one of the biggest unsolved challenges on public blockchains, and how OpenZeppelin's work with Zama is changing that. ⬇️
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"Confidentiality growing will definitely be a major thing to help institutional actors move to the blockchain: interbank settlements that want to remain private, or just to move some of our day-to-day finances." — Hadrien Croubois, Smart Contract Engineer at OpenZeppelin From the Zama Builder Villa at EthCC[9]: Hadrien on why confidentiality is one of the biggest unsolved challenges on public blockchains, and how OpenZeppelin's work with Zama is changing that. ⬇️

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14,413 views • 3 months ago

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X Finance Bull

123,256 views • 5 months ago