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World and Zoom Team up to Tackle Deepfake Impersonation

World co-founder Alex Blania has announced the company’s first industry-specific product suite designed to prevent AI-driven impersonation and deepfake fraud across financial institutions. Rising Threats of Synthetic Media World co-founder…

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Luxembourg VC Nextblock’s $3M Bet Targets a Missing Piece of Crypto Finance

Luxembourg venture capital firm Nextblock has fully funded Soda Labs’ $3 million seed round to scale its programmable privacy infrastructure.   Programmable Privacy Over Privacy Coins Luxembourg-based venture capital firm…

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US Treasury Moves to Scrap Proposed Crypto Wallet, Mixer Surveillance Rules

FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department, is planning to kill two crypto surveillance proposals that spent years hanging over self-custody and privacy tools without ever becoming law. One…

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SEC’s Hester Peirce Wants Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Fix KYC System

Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce called for an overhaul of legacy financial-surveillance frameworks, arguing that mandatory, continuous collection of personal data is costly and largely ineffective at detecting criminals. Rethinking…

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Researchers Propose Zcash-Style Privacy for Bitcoin Without a Soft Fork

Researchers behind Alloc Init have proposed “Shielded Bitcoin,” a metaprotocol designed to hide BTC transfer amounts and counterparties without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules or relying on trusted bridge operators. The…

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Shielded Bitcoin Proposal Aims to Bring Privacy to Bitcoin L1

A New York cryptography lab has proposed Zcash-style private transfers on Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin itself. Published on Thursday by [[alloc] init], Shielded Bitcoin would hide amounts and counterparties without…

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