Zcash co-founder: ‘The world is demanding more privacy'
Eli Ben‑Sasson, co‑founder of Zcash and Starknet, is highlighting a core tension for decentralized finance: how to keep payments private while ensuring integrity on public blockchains. In recent remarks he explored the technical and design challenges that arise when confidentiality must coexist with verifiable correctness — a problem that touches fraud prevention, compliance, and consensus security. Ben‑Sasson pointed to zero‑knowledge proofs and careful protocol-level approaches as the primary tools for delivering both privacy and auditability.
The stakes are practical as well as theoretical. Progress on privacy-preserving, integrity-preserving primitives could affect adoption of privacy coins like ZEC, the design of privacy layers on smart-contract platforms, and how exchanges and regulators approach on-chain transparency. Ben‑Sasson’s focus signals renewed effort from researchers and builders to craft scalable solutions that let users keep data private without sacrificing the trust guarantees that make public blockchains useful.