The next big crypto unlock maybe not yield or L2 scaling, it’s privacy. But not the shady kind. It’s about making crypto usable without leaking your wallet, identity, and history every time you click “send.” Let’s talk about why privacy is the missing piece 🧵👇

1/ Right now, privacy in crypto is broken. Everything’s public by default. You tip someone $5 in crypto, and suddenly they can see your net worth, your trades, and your DeFi history. That’s insane. No one would use a bank that posted all your transactions online.

2/ But fixing privacy is hard. You need five things working together: • A fast base layer • Succinct verification • Native ZK architecture • Cheap computation • Smooth UX Miss even one, and you’re stuck in “cool demo, no adoption” land.

3/ Take @Zcash, a true pioneer It proved ZK works, but it’s still bottlenecked by computation and programmability. Privacy works, but you can’t build much on top of it. Monero? Great for anonymity, terrible for scalability. Solana? Super fast, but not succinct enough for real client-side proofs.

4/ Privacy at scale means proving and verifying fast, especially on mobile. Your wallet should be able to create and verify private transactions without melting your phone. That’s where succinct verifiability comes in: small, cheap proofs that still guarantee correctness. And that’s what @Starknet built for.

5/ Starknet’s architecture is different. It’s ZK-first, not an add-on. Every layer, from the Cairo VM to its hash functions, is optimized for zero-knowledge from the start. That means it can verify complex computations fast, cheaply, and securely.

6/ Let’s talk performance. Starknet’s already hitting 1k+ TPS, with plans to scale past 10k. And it’s doing that while staying fully verifiable. You can’t say that for most L1s, they either go fast and fragile, or slow and secure. Starknet’s balancing both.

7/ Computation matters too. Real privacy takes a lot of proving power. Starknet’s efficient proving and verification (hello STWO prover 👀) make it cheap enough to scale. That’s why people call it the integrity layer of the web, it can prove anything, for anyone, at any scale.

8/ And the UX side? Privacy dApps usually die because they’re clunky. But with native account abstraction, Starknet apps can feel smooth, almost Web2-level. You’ll get privacy without needing to touch a command line or memorize seed phrases.

9/ In the long run… Starknet could become the privacy engine for Web3: hiding transactions, enabling programmable privacy in DeFi, social, and identity. Privacy will be expected, not optional. And the chains that can deliver fast, verifiable, ZK-native privacy will win. Right now, Starknet’s the closest thing we’ve got.