🔍 PRIVACY in crypto: technology, currency or investment thesis?

There is much talk about institutional adoption and upcoming growth vectors.

But there is one point that comes up more in discussions: PRIVACY and it is not just one thing.

👉 ZKP (Zero-Knowledge Proofs) is NOT a currency, it is a cryptographic technology that allows proving something without revealing the data.

It can be applied to payments, identity, compliance, DeFi, and even regulation.

📌 There is no "ZKP currency".

What exists are different projects that utilize this technology, each with a specific goal.

DO NOT CONFUSE TECHNOLOGY WITH TOKEN

example:

➡️ ZKPass is not "the ZKP".

It is a project that uses ZKP, just as others use this technology.

Buying the ZKPass token does not mean investing in ZKP technology.

🔐 Main privacy technologies and examples of currencies

1️⃣ ZKP – provable and auditable privacy

Indicated when privacy needs to coexist with compliance and institutional adoption.

Examples:

• ZEC (Zcash): optional privacy via ZKP

• MINA: blockchain based on ZKP

• AZERO: institutional privacy

• ZKPass: identity and verification infrastructure (not a payment currency)

📌 All use ZKP as technology, but they are not the same thing nor capture value in the same way.

2️⃣ Ring Signatures / Stealth Addresses / RingCT

Native and mandatory privacy, with no option for transparency, total anonymity

Examples:

• XMR

• FIRO

3️⃣ CoinJoin / Transaction mixing: statistical privacy

Mixes transactions to break the trail between origin and destination.

Example:

• DASH

🧠 Conceptual summary

• ZKP ≠ currency

• ZKP = technology

• Investing in a token that uses ZKP is not the same as investing "in ZKP"

• currencies like XMR follow another thesis: absolute anonymity by other techniques

📌 Personal reflection

I do not have privacy currencies.

I understand that privacy projects can complement, as long as one knows exactly what they are investing in.

🗳️ POLL

Which one would you choose?