Deep Tide TechFlow News, May 11 — In a research paper published on May 10, 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that to promote large-scale adoption of crypto payments, the industry needs to shift from "pseudo-anonymity" to "default privacy," and proposed an alternative standard for transactions based on zero-knowledge proofs (ZK). He said that with recursive SNARKs and "ZK API usage points," Ethereum's layer-two networks can achieve privacy payments at speeds and costs close to public transactions, while supporting selective disclosure and compliance proofs, protecting privacy of balances and transaction history while also meeting anti-money laundering regulatory requirements.