Chainlink and Privacy The locus of long-term value in crypto will shift toward Chainlink private smart contracts, not privacy-maximalist chains. They operationalize selective confidentiality shielding sensitive inputs, states, and identities while preserving public verifiability and composability. This hybrid model aligns with the constraints of real finance: compliance, auditability, and interoperability. Privacy chains deliver opacity; private smart contracts deliver verifiable confidentiality. They integrate multiple primitives TEEs, zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, and decentralized attestation to create a layered architecture capable of supporting institutional workflows. By enabling programmable compliance, granular disclosure, and interoperable settlement, private smart contracts resolve the tension between transparency and privacy that has limited adoption. Public settlement, private execution, and verifiable attestations are not an alternative to crypto’s ethos they are its evolution. This is Chainlink.