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Privacy Coins and Privacy Features Also becoming more standard in more chains over tim Others also (Dash, Enigma, Beanstalk). Ⓒ2020 Andreessen Horowitz. All rights reserved worldwide. Privacy Summary Privacy on Ethereum is being actively worked on by a number Privacy Coins: How Monero, Dash, and ZCash Will Enable True Privacy Monero, Dash, and Zcash - A Primer on the Largest Privacy Coins on the Market There are a couple of key technologies to know about: Zero Knowledge-based • zk-SNARKS (used in Zcash) • zk-STARKS Tiffany Madison Follow Mar 28, 2019-7 min read different teams. EMO Aztec Protocol is building an efficient zero-knowledge privacy protocol and decentralised exchange. The protocol is already live on Ethereum's mainnet. Starkware Industries is using STARK technology to improve scalability and privacy on Ethereum. Enigma Protocol are building 'secret contracts' which enable computation over encrypted data. Zether is a confidential (transaction amounts are hidden) and anonymous (transaction sender and receiver are hidden) payment mechanism on blockchains with the account model like Ethereum. More info on Zether. coindesk Bitcoin 24h $9,748.79 +0.46% fQ Ethereum 24h $213.44 +4.20% XRP 24h $0. Story from Tech → Bitcoin's Privacy and Scaling Tech Upgrade 'Taproot' Just Took a Big Step Forward Jan 24, 2020 at 00:45 UTC Updated Jan 24, 2020 at 15:38 UTC a16z

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