Here’s the friction I don’t see talked about enough: compliance teams don’t think in “transactions.” They think in liability.

Every new system they adopt creates surface area. More audit trails. More reporting obligations. More ways something can be misinterpreted five years later in a courtroom.

Public blockchains were built with radical transparency as the default. That made sense in an environment where the main concern was trustlessness. But regulated finance isn’t allergic to trust. It’s structured around it. Contracts, custodians, reporting frameworks, supervisory access. The issue isn’t visibility. It’s controlled visibility.

When privacy is treated as an add-on, institutions end up building complicated overlays. Off-chain data rooms. Selective disclosures. Legal workarounds. The result feels fragile. Technically clever, legally uncomfortable.

If infrastructure like @Fogo Official — a high-performance Layer 1 built around the Solana Virtual Machine — wants to serve regulated markets, privacy can’t be a special mode you toggle on. It has to align with how settlement, disclosure, and supervision already function. Fast execution and parallel processing reduce cost, yes. But cost in finance isn’t just latency. It’s compliance overhead and reputational risk.

Who would actually use this? Probably trading firms, structured product issuers, maybe regulated DeFi venues — but only if privacy maps cleanly to legal accountability.

If that alignment holds, it works quietly.
If it doesn’t, institutions will default back to what feels safer.

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