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Will privacy become the ultimate moat in the encryption field?
[BitPush] Ali Yahya, an investor at a16z Crypto, recently put forward an interesting point - privacy will be the most critical competitive barrier in the encryption field.
Thinking carefully, it does make sense. For global finance to truly go on-chain, privacy cannot be overlooked. Yet, most blockchains today seriously lack this functionality. Many chains still treat privacy as a patch, which needs to be addressed.
The most painful aspect is the asymmetry of cross-chain interactions. Asset cross-chain transfer? Easy and pleasant. But privacy cross-chain? The difficulty is directly maxed out. This creates an interesting contradiction - wanting both a cross-chain ecosystem and privacy protection, but many projects simply cannot coordinate the two.
Because the demand for privacy in real-world application scenarios is really urgent, in the future, it is likely that a few chains that excel in privacy will capture the majority of the market. These privacy chains are expected to occupy a major share of the encryption market.
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The hurdle of cross-chain privacy is that the current solutions are too disappointing and simply not enough.
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It sounds good, but when it really comes to letting users choose between privacy and speed, most would still prefer speed, right?
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In my opinion, the privacy moat is just like the decentralization of the past, it sounds beautiful, but the implementation is all about compromises.
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Which privacy chains will split the big pie? Let's survive first.
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The demand for privacy in real applications vs. the pressure of regulation, which do you think will win? I bet on the latter.
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Ali is not wrong, but the problem is—who has really achieved privacy? Not a single one at this point.
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Who will fill the gap for cross-chain privacy? It feels like everyone has just bypassed it.
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Sounds good, but the current privacy solutions are too expensive to afford.
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A few chains monopolizing the privacy market? That sounds nice, but in the end, they will still be sanctioned by regulators.
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Privacy is indeed a necessity, but there are too few projects that can actually be implemented.
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Every day people talk about privacy moats, but I still haven't seen a killer app.
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This logic is ridiculous, crossing assets is easy but privacy is hard? Nonsense.