I keep thinking about a basic question a compliance officer once asked: if we settle this trade on a public chain, who exactly gets to see it?

Not the regulator — that part is fine. The entire internet.

That’s the friction. Regulated finance isn’t allergic to transparency. It already reports constantly. The problem is uncontrolled transparency. Treasury flows, hedging strategies, client activity — those aren’t meant to be broadcast in real time to competitors, analysts, or opportunistic traders parsing blockchain data.

Most blockchain systems treat privacy like a switch you flip when needed. That feels backwards. Optional privacy creates suspicion. It complicates audits. It invites inconsistent usage. And when things go wrong, edge cases multiply.

If privacy isn’t structural, institutions end up layering policies, legal agreements, and technical patches on top of something that was never designed for regulated behavior. That’s expensive and fragile.

@Fogo Official is interesting not because it’s fast, but because high-performance infrastructure makes privacy practical. In trading and settlement, latency and confidentiality can’t compete with each other.

Regulated institutions would only use something like this if privacy is predictable, compliance is defensible, and performance holds under real load. If any one of those fails, adoption won’t stall dramatically — it just won’t happen at all.

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