Sharing the most important updates and headlines of Privacy on Ethereum from last week 🔐
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- Roman has been found guilty of money transmitting. His legal battle continues
- Coin Center’s Seven Takeaways from the Storm Verdict
- The Ethereum Foundation is matching another $500k to the legal defense of Roman Storm
Coin Center’s Seven Takeaways from the Storm Verdict:
▪️ 1. The sole conviction—unlicensed money transmission (18 U.S.C. § 1960)—turns mainly on legal/regulatory interpretation (“does this count as money transmission?”), not jury fact-finding.
▪️ 2. The court, at the motion-to-dismiss stage, discounted FinCEN’s stated guidance on what counts as “money transmission” in crypto and treated the category as broader than “control of customer funds.”
▪️ 3. With “money transmission” defined that broadly, the jury’s room to decide facts was narrow; the court’s interpretation largely dictated the outcome.
▪️ 4. DOJ’s prior “end regulation by prosecution” memo didn’t fully resolve §1960 issues left things open for continued prosecution; the DOJ dropped the failure-to-register theory but not the “knowingly transmitting criminal funds” theory. Coin Center’s view: both hinge on “transmitting” and are improper against developers excluded by FinCEN guidance.
▪️ 5. The BRCA (Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act), now attached to CLARITY and passed by the House, would confirm that non-controlling developers aren’t money transmitters. It can’t help Roman retroactively, but the Senate should pass it in upcoming market-structure debates.
▪️ 6. Coin Center fellow Michael Lewellen is suing DOJ for a declaration that publishing/maintaining his software isn’t unlicensed money transmission. Coin Center will continue supporting this effort to correct the legal interpretation.
▪️ 7. Coin Center is sorry Roman faces sentencing on a theory that contradicts the regulator’s guidance. He should appeal the denial of his motion to dismiss; Coin Center will assist however possible.
- New achievement unlocked for Railgun with over $100M TVL
- You can now on and offramp directly to your PayPal account using ZKP2P
- Turkish ID cards now supported by ZK Passport
- The @0xMiden ecosystem is shipping new privacy Apps
- The first Kleros dispute that uses @ShutterNetwork for hidden votes
🚀 The first @Kleros_io v2 dispute with hidden votes via @ShutterNetwork has just been auto-revealed on Arbitrum!
Now with a seamless 1-step UX, no more 2-steps commit-reveal.
The process is permissionless, anyone can retrieve the decryption key from the Shutter network once the commitment period duration has passed and reveal the votes. 🗳️
Coming more generally to the other v2 courts soon!
- Fermah generating Ethereum proofs using RISC Zero, all rebuilt from scratch
- The Succinct Prover Network is live on mainnet
- Report on the progress of the leading builders in the ZK Ethereum ecosystem
Here we report on the progress of the leading builders in the ZK @ethereum ecosystem, documenting recent significant releases, technical breakthroughs and general updates
Featuring: @Starknet, @StarkWareLtd, @zksync, @0xPolygon, @taikoxyz, @Scroll_ZKP, @LineaBuild, @ZircuitL2, @MantaNetwork, @aztecnetwork, & @HelloTelos 👇
Resources
- New Podcast on Aztec's roadmap and building privacy on Ethereum @jaosef
Ep. 567 Joe Andrews | Decentralized Applications with Encryption on Aztec
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For episode 567 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Joe Andrews, Co-founder & President of @aztecnetwork.
Aztec is a fully programmable private ZK-rollup on Ethereum enabling developers to create decentralized applications with encryption and scale.
⏰ KEY HIGHLIGHTS
(4:03) Aztec in 2025
(6:00) Aztec Roadmap
(8:05) Aztec’s role in Privacy Onchain
(12:50) Aztec ecosystem applications
(16:30) Balancing Privacy and Compliance Onchain
🎥 WATCH/LISTEN NOW
🔗 Spotify:
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#BlockHashPodcast #AztecProtocol #AztecNetwork #Web3 #Podcast
- Published text-version of Vitalik's talk about getting serious about Ethereum privacy
- Private Bids, Public Proofs: A New Onchain Auction Design
- New tutorial teaches how to implement Plonk from scratch
Research & Standards
- ERC-7995: Encrypted Data
- A Modular zk‑WASM Execution Layer
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