Intro More than $4.2 billion in stablecoins have been processed by means of on-chain privateness protocols, and the information reveals patterns that problem frequent assumptions about who makes use of these instruments and why. AMLBot’s evaluation of its public Dune Analytics Dashboard — which tracks cumulative stablecoin volumes throughout Tornado Cash, Railgun, zkBOB, Hinkal, Aztec, and Privacy…
An alternate on X between Polygon’s CTO Mudit Gupta and Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox reignited a long-simmering debate over whether or not privacy-preserving shielded swimming pools will be completely audited — and, by extension, whether or not ZEC’s 21 million cap will be trusted beneath all conceivable failure modes. The dispute hinged on a well-recognized…
The Polygon PoS Network is experiencing a community finality delay brought on by a node bug impacting Bor and Erigon nodes, with transactions taking 10–quarter-hour to completion, in accordance to an official incident report from the Polygon Foundation. UPDATE: Temporary Delay in Finality While the chain continues to run and blocks and checkpoints are produced,…