AMA / happy to dive in on any topic top of ppl's minds!
wmf•2mo ago
Are there plans to add privacy?
gakonst•2mo ago
Yes, there are many ways to approach the problem depending on who your adversary is.
Most privacy solutions unfortunately end up having two problems:
- terrible user experience for various reasons relating to tracking metadata about your private payments and making claims about them using fancy cryptography.
- terrible performance, preventing you from being able to do multiple thousands of payments per second.
One threat model I am excited by (non-committally though) is similar to 'compliant' end to end encryption between you and the stablecoin issuer, i.e. you and the stablecoin issuer can see your payments but no script kiddie on the internet can. This can be implemented w/o fancy cryptography and with great compatibility with the existing wallet / application ecosystem.
gakonst•2mo ago
We love building high performance devtools and distributed systems in Rust (e.g. https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry/ & https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/), and we've put a lot of care into this release (https://github.com/tempoxyz/tempo) over the last 6 months.
AMA / happy to dive in on any topic top of ppl's minds!
wmf•2mo ago
gakonst•2mo ago
Most privacy solutions unfortunately end up having two problems: - terrible user experience for various reasons relating to tracking metadata about your private payments and making claims about them using fancy cryptography. - terrible performance, preventing you from being able to do multiple thousands of payments per second.
One threat model I am excited by (non-committally though) is similar to 'compliant' end to end encryption between you and the stablecoin issuer, i.e. you and the stablecoin issuer can see your payments but no script kiddie on the internet can. This can be implemented w/o fancy cryptography and with great compatibility with the existing wallet / application ecosystem.
Hoping we can publish more on this soon.