The Race to Real-Time Privacy

Privacy Now - Privacy, Web3 and AI

What if privacy on the blockchain didn’t mean going dark, but going compliant?

In this episode of Privacy Now, Mihnea Stefanescu sits down with Dr. Adam Gągol, co-founder of Aleph Zero, CEO of Cardinal Cryptography, and the architect behind Blanksquare , a new middleware layer bringing Privacy-as-a-Service to the EVM ecosystem.

Together, they explore how the Blanksquare SDK enables private transactions, compliant shielding, and selective disclosure, all while running at subsecond ZK proving speeds.

Topics include:

🔹 The evolution from Aleph Zero to Blanksquare

🔹 Privacy as a compliance tool, not an obstacle

🔹 How subsecond ZK proofs make privacy usable

🔹 Selective disclosure & the “Anonymity Revoking” model

🔹 Why middleware beats L1s and privacy coins

🔹 The future of privacy, regulation & cryptography

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