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One thing is clear by now. AI is the most disruptive technology of our age. That’s because AI is more than a conversational and communication tool, it automates cognition itself. Meaning it is capable of mass producing and coordinating actions, not just generating ideas.

With the introduction of Open Claw, agents are taking over. Automating actions, filtering distractions and putting people’s lives and businesses on autopilot. Over 2-million OpenClaws have launched in under 30-days.

First millions. Then billions. The agents have arrived.
This is historically new.

Data Privacy, a Fundamental Roadblock

Companies are now racing to integrate AI and AI Agents, and nowhere more so than the financial industries. Automated-intelligence trading systems have been live in major financial institutions for at least a decade. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and BlackRock are some of the companies that have leveraged AI historically for,

Deep learning for market prediction

Reinforcement learning for trading strategies

Natural language processing for news sentiment

In blockchain, some early projects such as SingularityAI, Fetch.ai and others explored the intersection of AI and blockchain but it was the explosion of generative AI made tangible via ChatGPT in 2022 that formed an inflection point for public awareness.

Then more recently, in the past year we’ve seen the rise of AI trading agents available to retail audiences on exchanges like Bankr Bot on Base and DeFi platforms such as PriveX on COTI.

But as the landscape evolves and AI moves from executing instructions to making intelligent decisions, the ability of agents to process data securely without compromising sensitive information becomes critical. Without robust privacy-preserving computation, AI cannot operate effectively in trading, financial, governmental, or enterprise contexts.

AI and Blockchain: The Future in Beta

Let’s be very clear about the current trajectory. AI agents are evolving extremely fast and very quickly becoming capable of running the whole show for us. Not just thinking, but executing and learning as they go, becoming all roles within a business, and conferring amongst themselves. Get ready for agent to agent business where the human is no longer needed. As one recent viral post on X notes, we are just the ‘beta testers’.

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In this scenario, Agents need fast payment rails, they are not going to hook into bank API’s! For a start the settlement times are just not feasible. Agents can execute trillions of operations per second. They are not going to wait 2–5 days for an international settlement. Not to mention the KYC and AML requirements. Agents will naturally favour the fastest and most efficient route to getting business done.

However, as we watch the disruption of AI unfolding, or what Vitalik Buterin has referred to as an era of ‘chaos’, one thing is very clear, AI Agents need privacy. They need cryptographic infrastructure to handle confidential payments at scale and to protect their strategy and IP from others.

Vitalik comments that the future of AI on Ethereum is about how AI systems are designed, who controls them, what data they touch, and whether people can trust them. He has repeatedly argued that AI should work with decentralized systems in a way that protects users, preserves privacy, and avoids concentrating power in the hands of a few actors.

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As AI agents start moving on-chain, making decisions, interacting with protocols, and transacting with one another, privacy stops being a “nice to have” and becomes a hard requirement. That’s where confidential computation is essential, and it’s needed today.

As of today, just one platform offers AI Agents with Privacy: PriveX on COTI and that platform is generating a daily volume of upwards of $250 million. We’re early.

COTI Enabling the On-Chain AI Revolution

Garbled Circuits, a cryptographic protocol first theorized in the 1980s, offer a performance profile that can meet the demands of a future of autonomous agents. COTI is the first blockchain protocol to implement Garbled Circuits on-chain, enabling private computation at unprecedented speeds.

COTI is capable of delivering significantly faster execution for specific types of operations, up to 3000x faster in certain workloads and 250x lighter than alternative privacy solutions. This gives AI agents pro-performance privacy, enabling them to transact, trade and do business with one another without exposing sensitive data.

AI Agents can securely support real use cases like finance, governance, identity, and tokenized assets, while keeping information private by default. In other words, COTI provides the kind of cryptographic foundation Ethereum needs if on-chain AI is going to be useful in the real world, not just impressive in demos.

Privacy in AI Agents is essential for:

Privacy-preserving sensitive data: AI agents will manage sensitive financial data, personal credentials and company secrets and need to do so without exposing sensitive details.

Secure analytics for tokenized assets: run risk analysis and portfolio optimisation while meeting regulatory data requirements.

Decentralised compliance checks: validate conditions without sharing raw data.
And many more use cases.

On COTI, computation can be executed collaboratively by multiple parties without revealing their inputs, making Garbled Circuits particularly well-suited for cross-agent privacy and real-time AI decision-making in decentralized environments.

For AI agents requiring high throughput and low latency, such as responding to market changes or processing real-time data feeds, Garbled Circuits offer a practical balance between privacy and performance that opens new possibilities for enterprise applications.

It cannot be emphasised how fast this space is growing.

Confidential AI Has Arrived

COTI’s ability to run on any device makes it particularly accessible for AI Agent deployment and as the race for on-chain AI intensifies, being a flexible, low-cost privacy solution will matter. But more important than everything else is being market-ready. While many privacy solutions are still stuck on the theory, COTI has launched, is being implemented by scores of partners, and is currently the only privacy protocol capable of driving the next generation of decentralized, confidential AI agent computation at scale.

For all of our updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Bridging assets into COTI V2 is simple and flexible. Whether you’re moving COTI ERC20, stablecoins, or other major assets from Ethereum or Cardano, COTI supports multiple trusted bridging options to get you on-chain quickly.

This guide walks you through the three main ways to bridge to the COTI Network, using the COTI Native Bridge, Hyperlane Nexus Bridge, and ChainPort, plus step-by-step instructions for adding the COTI Network to your wallet so your assets show up correctly once bridged.

How to Bridge COTI ERC20 into COTI V2

The COTI Native Bridge can be used to move COTI in & out between COTI Network and Ethereum.

Start with COTI ERC20 within your self-custody wallet

Navigate to bridge.coti.io

Connect your wallet

4. Enter Ethereum as the source network and COTI as the destination network

5. Enter the number of tokens that you wish to bridge

6. Hit ‘Bridge Tokens’

7. Confirm the transaction in your wallet

To view your bridged tokens you will need to add COTI Network to your wallet. Scroll to the bottom for step-by-step instructions.

📌Learn more about the COTI Native Bridge in our Docs

Using Hyperlane to Bridge to COTI Network

Bridge quickly and seamlessly from Ethereum to COTI Network using Hyperlane’s Nexus Bridge. The bridge offers conversions from USDC, ETH and BTC. In the following guide we will show you how to bridge USDC on Ethereum to USDC.e, on the COTI Network.

Navigate to the Nexus Bridge here

Connect your wallet.

Choose the Source chain (e.g. Ethereum) and the asset you want to bridge: USDC → USDC.e

Add the amount you want to bridge.

Set destination chain to COTI Mainnet.

Review fees and estimated arrival time.

✅ Approve & Bridge

To view your newly bridged tokens in your wallet add the relevant network address as follows:

USDC on COTI (USDC.e): 0xf1Feebc4376c68B7003450ae66343Ae59AB37D3C

ETH on COTI (wETH): 0x639aCc80569c5FC83c6FBf2319A6Cc38bBfe26d1

BTC on COTI (wBTC): 0x8C39B1fD0e6260fdf20652Fc436d25026832bfEA

📌 New to adding contract addresses? Scroll down for step-by-step instructions on how to add a contract address to MetaMask.

Using ChainPort to bridge to the COTI Network.

ChainPort is the newest bridging option on COTI, enabling seamless transfers of USDT from Ethereum and ADA from Cardano directly into the COTI Network using a secure, non-custodial bridge.

Head to app.chainport.io and connect your wallet.
Use MetaMask to bridge USDT or a Cardano wallet to bridge ADA (e.g. Nami, Eternl, Yoroi.)

Select Chains & Tokens as follows:

To bridge ADA: Choose Cardano as source, ADA as token, COTI as destination.

To bridge USDT: Choose Ethereum as source, USDT as token, COTI as destination.

3. Confirm & Receive.

4. Review fees/gas, approve.

5. To view your newly bridged tokens in your wallet add the relevant network address as follows:

wADA on COTI: 0xe757Ca19d2c237AA52eBb1d2E8E4368eeA3eb331

USDT on COTI: 0xfA6f73446b17A97a56e464256DA54AD43c2Cbc3E

💡 You can reverse the direction for USDT / ADA bridging. The process works the same, just swap the source and target chains.

How to Add Custom Networks to Your Wallet

How to Add COTI Network to your wallet:

Open your MetaMask wallet

Click on the dropdown of networks and select Add a Custom Network

3. Fill in the following information to add the COTI Network:
• Network Name: COTI
• Default RPC URL: https://mainnet.coti.io/rpc
• Chain ID: 2632500
• Currency Symbol: COTI
• Block Explorer URL: https://mainnet.cotiscan.io

4. Hit Save

How to Add Additional Networks to your wallet

Open your MetaMask wallet

Click on the dropdown of networks and select Add a Custom Network

Visit the COTI Docs here to find the contract address for the token you wish to add (USDT, USDC, wADA, wETH, wBTC etc)

Copy the address and paste it into the Token Contract Address Field

That’s it. The token will appear in your wallet and you will be able to see the balance you hold.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We’re excited to announce the COTI Vibe Coding Challenge is officially live. We invite anyone to become a builder and go from 0 to Launch in the next 30-days.

Vibe coding makes building your own app so incredibly easy that anyone can do it. For this competition we’re inviting you to create the most creative, unique and valuable app that can ultimately launch as a full Web3 project.

Join the challenge to launch your own app or game, as well as a token, and enter for the chance to win up to 50,000 COTI + more!!

The Goal: Build, launch, and showcase a privacy-first app or game on COTI
Deadline: March 13th, 2026
👉Start Building: https://stay.coti.io/vibe-coding

⚙️ How to Vibe Code Your Build

We’ve provided easy prompt packs to help you build your ideas into a fully deployed app or game that uses the COTI’s privacy features, powered by your own privacy token. These prompt packs are designed to help you through the three stages of the challenge:

1. Vibe Code Your App or Game
Come up with a creative idea for an app or game that you can build using the latest vibe coding tools via our prompt packs.

2. Create a Private Token
Mint your own private token on COTI for your project. Make sure to protect and control the private keys in a safe-place.

3. Connect Your App/Game and Token
Embed your private token into your project. Have it power rewards, gas fees, or any other form of utility.

🧠 What You’ll Build

Using vibe coding techniques or traditional build techniques, you’ll build a working app that meaningfully uses COTI’s privacy features.

🔐 Private backends or databases
🎮 Games with private logic or state
👤 User-centric apps with confidential data
🧩 Privacy-aware smart contracts
🧠 AI + privacy use cases

👉Start Building: https://stay.coti.io/vibe-coding

In all use cases, you will need to mint and connect a privacy token to your app on COTI, turning your build into a complete, usable product.

To help you go from idea to deployment, check out the tools, prompts and vibe builder resources on our Vibe Coding Challenge Page.

🏆 Rewards & Prizes

There are great prizes up for grabs for the Top 3 Spots. Judges will be looking at creativity, use case, usability, and completing all tasks.

🥇1st Place: 50,000 COTI

The top project will receive support to launch as a real project and token across the COTI ecosystem including,

Liquidity Kickstart on Bancor

Logo on COTI Ecosystem

COTI Privacy Paradigm Livestream Feature

Ongoing marketing Support from COTI

🥈 2nd Place: 25,000 COTI

🥉3rd Place: 10,000 COTI

📄 How to Enter to WIN

Vibe Code an app or game using COTI privacy features

Mint & connect a privacy token to your app

Share a demo of your build on X & include a link to your project

👉 Fill out the Submission Form: https://forms.gle/2Xan4qnVTo7w9itF9

📺 Vibe Builder Livestreams

We’re also bringing you weekly Vibe Builder Livestreams every week during the campaign! With how-to demos, vibe coding deep dives, and privacy best practices, designed to help you ship.

These kick off on February 17th @ 2:00 pm UTC on COTI X and Youtube

🚀 Ready to go from 0 to Launch?

The COTI Vibe Code Challenge is all about showcasing how easy it is to build and ship fast using privacy on COTI!

Join the COTI Vibe Code Challenge today and turn your exciting idea into a thriving Web3 project.

Vibe. Build. Launch.
Let’s Go 🔥

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We’re excited to announce that USDT & ADA holders now have an easy way to earn rewards with COTI.

Users can bridge USDT and ADA into COTI, deploy them on Carbon DeFi, and start earning rewards today.

Here’s how it works:

Bridge USDT & ADA to COTI Network

Add liquidity with USDT or wADA on Carbon DeFi

Start stacking daily TPS rewards

Convert your TPS into $COTI at the end of the season

Simple. There are no lengthy lockups or complex staking contracts. Your rewards accrue simply for providing real liquidity that supports the network.

How to Get Started

You can create any of the following liquidity strategies to be eligible to earn TPS and you may use USDT and wADA with any available pairing:

Limit: This classic tool enables traders to set exact buy or sell prices. No trading fees or gas fees on filled orders.

Range: Trades within specific price ranges, ideal for scaling in/out of a position.

Recurring Limit Order: an automated grid trading strategy. Buy order and sell order are connected allowing funds to automatically rotate between them in an endless loop.

Concentrated liquidity: Full range liquidity: Deploy capital across the entire market range. Manage concentrated liquidity positions while choosing your specific spread, with built-in auto-compounding.

Check Carbon DeFi’s handy overview of the different trade types for more in-depth information.

You can view all the current strategies earning TPS on Carbon DeFi at any time by navigating to the Gift box icon. After you create any strategy you can navigate to ‘Portfolio’ then ‘Strategies’ to review, and adjust positions on the fly.

Trading with Different Strategies

In all the following cases the first three steps are the same:

Visit earn.coti.io and connect your wallet (important to receive TPS)

Head to Carbon DeFi: coti.carbondefi.xyz

Connect your wallet — ensure you are on COTI Network

Limit Orders

Clicking on ‘‘Trade’ in the top menu bar.

Choose “Limit” for a one-time buy/sell, or “Range Order” to scale in/out of a position.

Enter the specific price at which you want to buy or sell. Input the amount of tokens to trade.

Click ‘Create’ to place the order. The order is automated and executes only when the market hits your target price.

It is possible to adjust parameters after the trade is placed. Check out Carbon DeFi’s guide for more details.

See Carbon DeFi’s guide on Limit orders or guide to Range orders here.

Recurring Limit order:

Navigate to ‘Recurring Limit’ within the Intermediate menu or Recurring Range within the Advanced Menu. This will allow you to set up a strategy that loops between buy/sell orders in perpetuity.

Select the desired trading pair.

Set the price range you wish to Buy at (the lower range).

Set the price range you wish to Sell at (the higher range).

Set the budget. You may fund either the Buy or the Sell side — you don’t need to fund both sides for this type of trade.

Click ‘Create’ to deploy your strategy on-chain.

Bancor has created a detailed guide on Recurring orders here.

Concentrated liquidity:

This feature enables you to:

Buy and sell within a custom price range.

Free of tick constraints

Auto-compounding

The ability to choose a custom fee tier

Within the Essentials menu, choose ‘Concentrated’

Choose your pair by selecting any two tokens

Set Buy Range — the lower price

Set Sell Range: — the higher price

Set Fee/Spread: Define your fee (profit) margin.

Adjust on the Fly: You can modify your range orders without needing to close and recreate your position by navigating to ‘Portfolio’ then ‘Strategies’ in the top menu.

By following these simple steps you can start providing liquidity and earning token points (TPS) today.

Why This Matters

COTI Earn is designed to reward real usage and liquidity that drives activity on the network. By rewarding users to participate on Carbon DeFi, we’re expanding the ways users can deploy assets, not just hold them, and strengthen our Private DeFi ecosystem.

Bridge. Deploy. Earn. It’s that easy.

We’re on a mission to make joining and participating in the COTI ecosystem easy and rewarding. By building bridges and incentives across the ecosystem, we’re expanding the network and growing it for everyone.

Start earning today at: https://earn.coti.io 🚀

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

The on-chain arbitrage market is a hyper-competitive arena. Finding opportunities is only half the battle, executing on them is where things get challenging.

On public blockchains, simple observation allows competitive or predatory traders and bots to extract the value of discovered arbitrage — reducing the amount of time to capitalize on the market inefficiency or pricing disconnect. Until now.

Today, we are proud to announce that Bancor’s Arb Fast Lane has integrated COTI’s Garbled Circuits, marking a major milestone in on-chain privacy that’s set to level the playing field for arbitrage traders.

What is Arb Fast Lane?

The Arb Fast Lane is Bancor’s onchain arbitrage trading bot and execution system.

It continuously monitors markets, searching for price discrepancies across all major decentralized exchanges. When it identifies an opportunity, it computes a sequence of trades, designed to capture that discrepancy, known as arbitrage.

The route is executed step by step, and if the final result does not meet predefined thresholds, the transaction reverts.

The Arb Fast Lane ensure high-quality arbitrage opportunities are discovered, executed efficiently, and done so privately — protecting the arbitrage opportunities for traders across the market as they discover them.

The Arbitrage Transparency Problem.

While the logic is sound, the transparency of public blockchains creates a structural problem for traders looking to take advantage of arbitrage. On public blockchains, transactions are visible before they execute. As soon as a transaction enters the que, profitability thresholds are broadcast to the network where competing bots can observe and copy them.

In this environment, blockchain transparency exposes strategy. But Bancor’s Arb Fast Lane solves this.

The COTI Solution: Selective Encryption

By leveraging COTI’s Garbled Circuits, the Arb Fast Lane can now encrypt sensitive execution inputs at the protocol level. Traders don’t need to hide the entire transaction; it’s about intentional privacy.

Encrypted thresholds: The sensitive value is encrypted before broadcast.

On-chain enforcement: The smart contract still enforces the threshold during execution and reverts if it isn’t met.

Zero visibility: The value is never exposed in plaintext to the competing bots or broader network.

This shift moves the competition back to where it belongs: discovery and execution efficiency, rather than simple observation-based extraction.

The Future of Arbitrage

With the integration of COTI’s Garbled Circuits into the Arb Fast Lane, Bancor is introducing a meaningful upgrade to onchain arbitrage execution: privacy applied intentionally, at the exact point where transparency becomes a liability.

By protecting arbitrage opportunities while enabling broader market participation, we aren’t just helping one trader or bot, we are building a fairer, more mature on-chain market.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We’re excited to announce that NIGHT, the native token of the Midnight Network, is now live on the COTI Network , powered by ChainPort.

This milestone brings another major privacy-native asset into COTI’s programmable privacy ecosystem. By bridging NIGHT to COTI Network, we’re expanding liquidity and utility for builders, traders, and participants of our Global privacy ecosystem.

What Is NIGHT?

NIGHT is the unshielded native and governance token of the Midnight Network, a next-generation privacy blockchain from Input Output, the same engineering team behind Cardano.

Midnight restores the original promise of crypto, and aims to be the architecture of freedom. The network is a fourth-generation blockchain built for rational privacy. No one should be forced to choose between utility and privacy. Midnight’s architecture enables everyone to verify the truth without exposing their personal data.

Unlike privacy coins that obfuscate transactions, Midnight combines zero-knowledge cryptography with selective disclosure tooling, enabling developers and users to retain privacy where needed while staying compliant and auditable.

How NIGHT works:

NIGHT secures the network and enables governance

Holding NIGHT generates DUST, a renewable, shielded resource used to pay for on-chain transaction fees and smart contract execution on Midnight

Midnight prioritizes programmable privacy, giving builders and enterprise users fine-grained control over what data is revealed on-chain and when

The NIGHT token launch was a major moment for the privacy ecosystem, marking the culmination of one of the broadest token distributions in blockchain history and signaling strong early community participation across multiple ecosystems.

What This Means for COTI Network

The integration of NIGHT via ChainPort opens powerful new opportunities:

🚀 Deepened Liquidity for Privacy Assets
With lightning-fast transfers and low fees, ChainPort is the ideal bridge for builders, traders, and liquidity providers to bring NIGHT into COTI’s privacy-native DeFi pools, confidential payments rails, and multichain trading venues.

🔗 Cross-Chain Composability
By bridging a leading privacy token like NIGHT into COTI’s ecosystem, we further unlock interoperability between privacy-blockchains, build bridges between our communities, and unlock a wide-variety of use cases.

💡 More Use Cases for Builders
Developers can now leverage NIGHT within COTI’s ecosystem to build privacy-enhanced applications, broaden access to confidential DeFi products, and experiment with next-gen financial rails that prioritize data protection and compliance.

ChainPort: Powering the NIGHT Bridge

ChainPort is one of the most secure and versatile cross-chain bridges in the industry, connecting dozens of networks and assets through fast, secure interoperability. With NIGHT now supported, ChainPort continues to serve as a powerful gateway for liquidity into COTI’s privacy ecosystem, complementing other assets already bridged to COTI.

This integration is more than a bridge, it connects communities, expands liquidity, and aligns two industry leaders in privacy.

Getting Started with NIGHT on COTI

To begin using NIGHT on COTI Network:

Visit ChainPort and connect your preferred wallet

Select NIGHT as the asset you want to bridge

Choose COTI Network as your destination

Complete the transfer

Once the bridge completes, NIGHT will be available on COTI for liquidity, trading, and participation in private DeFi

As NIGHT continues to grow on COTI, we expect liquidity to deepen and use cases to accelerate.

This is just the beginning. Stay tuned for deeper integrations, new privacy-centric products, and more ways to leverage confidential assets on COTI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

TL;DR
A complete, step-by-step walkthrough on how to earn the equivalent of over 40% APY on USDC, ETH & BTC in COTI token rewards
→ What you’ll need
→ How to bridge assets
→ How to claim your rewards

Overview

COTI Earn is our seasonal rewards platform that rewards users with a generous APY for simply holding assets on the COTI Mainnet and participating in our DeFi ecosystem.

The easiest way to start earning APY is simply bridge USDC, ETH or BTC into the COTI network. Once bridged, simply holding these assets on the network makes you eligible for daily TPS rewards which can be converted to $COTI at the end of the season.

Here is everything you need to know to start earning APY!

What You’ll Need:

A Web3 wallet: MetaMask is recommended

One of the following assets on its native chain: USDC, ETH, or BTC

Gas fees on the source chain (e.g. ETH on Ethereum)

Step 1: Connect Your Wallet to COTI Earn

Open earn.coti.io

Click “Connect Wallet” in the upper right corner

Select your wallet provider (e.g. MetaMask).

Approve the connection in your wallet.

If you are not connected to COTI Mainnet — you will be prompted to add it.

Confirm the network switch.

Once connected, your wallet address will be visible in the top-right corner. You are now set up to receive Token Point rewards (TPS)!

💡 If the network does not auto-add COTI Mainnet Network , you can manually add it using these instructions: here.

Step 2: Bridge Assets to COTI

🌉Open & Setup the Bridge

Navigate to the Nexus Bridge here.

Connect your wallet.

Choose your source chain (e.g. Ethereum or Bitcoin).

Choose the asset you want to bridge:

USDC → USDC.e

ETH → wETH

BTC → wBTC

Add the amount you want to bridge

Set destination chain to COTI Mainnet

Review fees and estimated arrival time.

✅ Approve & Bridge

Approve the token spend in your wallet

Confirm the bridge transaction.

Wait for the cross-chain transfer to complete

💡 Be Patient: The bridge transaction can take up to several minutes to process

Once complete, you’ve successfully bridged to COTI Network & will automatically start earning TPS.

Step 3: Verify Your Assets on COTI Mainnet (Optional)

In case you want to ensure that your assets have successfully bridged to the COTI Mainnet, you can view them in your wallet following these steps:

Ensure your wallet is connected to COTI Mainnet

Check your wallet balance for: USDC.e, wETH, or wBTC
- These are the names of the assets once bridged to COTI Mainnet

If you don’t automatically see your tokens you can add the individual contract addresses to check.
How? Manually add the address to which ever token you bridged:

USDC.e: 0xf1Feebc4376c68B7003450ae66343Ae59AB37D3C

wETH: 0x639aCc80569c5FC83c6FBf2319A6Cc38bBfe26d1

wBTC: 0x8C39B1fD0e6260fdf20652Fc436d25026832bfEA

4. Navigate to your MetaMask wallet > ‘Import Token’ and paste the address above for the token that you bridged.

5. Your tokens should now be visible.

Step 4: Automatically Earn APY

Once bridging is complete, you will automatically earn APY on the USDC, ETH or BTC you hold on the COTI Mainnet.

APY is paid out in TPS rewards, which are calculated daily

TPS is minted directly to your wallet every 24 hours

No lock ups or staking required.

Stack TPS and convert it to $COTI at the end of the season

That’s it! There’s nothing else you need to do.

How the APY Rate Works

The APY on COTI Earn depends on network conditions

The most recent APY is shown in the landing page of earn.coti.io.

APY rates vary and are subject to change based on network conditions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I go to get started?

Visit earn.coti.io.

Do I need to stake or lock my assets?

No. Simply holding eligible assets on COTI Mainnet is all that is required.

When do rewards arrive?

TPS rewards are distributed every 24 hours directly to your wallet.

Can I bridge back anytime?

Yes. Your assets are fully liquid and you can move them whenever you choose. Though you will stop earning daily TPS if you bridge back out of COTI.

Is this DeFi or CeFi?

This is a non-custodial, on-chain rewards system native to the COTI ecosystem.

Stay COTI. 🚀

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

ZNS is now live in COTI Earn for Season 3.

Minting a .coti domain is no longer just about naming, it’s about earning, participating, and building a persistent on-chain identity that’s actually used.

This guide walks you through how to mint a .coti domain and why.

How to Mint Your .coti Domain (Step by Step)

Minting a .coti domain takes just a few minutes.

Step 1: Connect Your Wallet to COTI Earn
👉https://earn.coti.io/build

Step 2: Go to ZNS: 👉https://zns.bio
Connect the same wallet you used on COTI Earn.

Step 3: Choose your .coti Domain

Step 4: Mint and Earn

Add the domain to your cart

Checkout to complete the minting process

Your new domain name will appear as an NFT within your wallet.

🎉 Within 24 hours you’ll receive 1,000 TPS

That’s it! Your on-chain identity is live.

Your TPS can be converted into $COTI at the end of Season 3
Visit ‘My Rewards’ within COTI Earn to ‘Claim’ at seasons end.

Why Mint a .coti Domain?

A .coti domain is a human-readable on-chain identity powered by ZNS and native to the COTI ecosystem.

Instead of sharing long wallet addresses, users can use a simple name like yourname.coti as their on-chain identity. That identity can be used across wallets, dApps, and services, and now, directly within COTI Earn.

Minting a .coti domain gives you:

A persistent on-chain identity

A simpler, more intuitive user experience

Real Rewards

When you mint a .coti domain using a wallet already connected to COTI Earn, you receive 1,000 TPS (Token Points) which you can convert your TPS into $COTI at the end of the season.

Identity Is Infrastructure

By bringing ZNS into COTI Earn, COTI is making on-chain identity:

Easy to adopt

Useful from day one

Directly aligned with ecosystem incentives

On-chain identity starts here. 💚

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

At COTI, our mission has always been to make privacy a mainstream reality. Today, we are proud to showcase a major milestone in that journey: United Network has officially integrated COTI’s privacy layer to power confidential transactions on its infrastructure and hardware wallet.

This partnership and integration uses COTI’s highly-scalable and lightweight GC-Layer privacy stack to enable private transactions across the United Network ecosystem. It also serves as a live demonstration of what is now possible following our recent Helium Mainnet Upgrade.

By leveraging COTI’s exclusive technology, United Network is providing its users with industry-leading transaction confidentiality, while maintaining simplicity and ease of use.

Practical Privacy for Everyone

United Network is a Wallet-Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform redefining self-custody through physical card-based hardware wallets. Private keys are stored locally, eliminating server-side backups and reducing attack surfaces.

United Network has combined COTI’s on-chain privacy stack with its familiar, card-based hardware wallet tools, to power private transactions and give users the full ability to protect sensitive data, transactions and private keys.

COTI Users gain the first dedicated hardware card wallet for the COTI ecosystem. This collaboration allows users to secure their private assets and perform confidential transactions using a physical wallet, significantly upgrading security beyond software wallets.

With this partnership, Developers also unlock Hardware-as-a-Service for the COTI ecosystem. Developers can build privacy dApps that leverage United Network’s card infrastructure for secure signing, enabling new “Physical DeCC” use cases without needing to build their own hardware.

By partnering together, we’re bringing tangible real-world privacy utility to the broader community. United Network transforms COTI’s privacy layer into a consumer-ready product, offering a sleek, physical entry point that helps mainstream users to easily and simply adopt privacy.

A New-Standard for Global Privacy

By working together, we’re also introducing a new standard for market-accessible privacy and security for institutions and users.

Establishing “Hardware-Enforced Privacy” Standards

We’re setting a new precedent for Physical DeCC (Decentralized Confidential Computing). By seamlessly blending COTI’s on-chain privacy GC-layer with United Network’s secure offline key storage, we are pioneering a security standard where privacy is not a mere software setting, but is physically isolated from the internet.

Driving Enterprise & Institutional Adoption

Together, we’re effectively removing the critical barrier of data leak fears for institutions. By offering a compliant privacy solution in the familiar, user-friendly form factor of a card, we create a secure environment for enterprises to transact. Businesses can now confidently use Web3 for essential operations, such as payroll, supply chain management, or voting, knowing their sensitive data is protected both on the blockchain and at the physical endpoint.

Mass Market Accessibility (UX)

We are making privacy intuitive for the everyday user. Moving past complex command-line tools and obscure privacy mixers, this partnership proves that advanced cryptographic privacy is easily accessible through a simple card tap. This “invisible integration” is vital for bringing sophisticated Web3 privacy tools to a non-technical, mainstream audience.

A New Era of Privacy

United Network’s integration of COTI is proof that privacy infrastructure is live and ready to scale to users and institutions, while ensuring a simple way to transact with privacy.

“This partnership solves the tension between state compliance and individual privacy. By anchoring COTI’s privacy layer into United Network’s physical hardware, we are creating a true ‘Digital Cash’ standard. We can now offer the security governments demand while physically guaranteeing the privacy citizens deserve, right in the palm of their hand.”

— Danylo Rumiantsev, Co-Founder of United Network

Get Involved

To celebrate this integration, we’ll be launching a special United Network hardware wallet and COTI giveaway. Stay tuned for campaign details!

👉 In the meantime, join the United Network community to get involved and learn more!

United Network: https://united.network/

X (Twitter): https://x.com/UN_wallet

Telegram: https://t.me/UnitedNetworkWallet

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Built on Ethereum and powered by the breakthrough cryptographic protocol Garbled Circuits, COTI provides the fastest, lightest, and most compliant solution for on-chain data protection. COTI’s mission is to empower developers and institutions to build a new generation of decentralized applications, from DeFi to Digital Identity, where privacy is programmable and performance is guaranteed.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin renewed his commitment to the vision of a decentralized internet, a vision originally articulated in 2014, when the idea of a permissionless, decentralized stack capable of supporting everything from finance to social media was first laid out.

Vitalik describes a world where decentralized applications reshape the internet’s architecture. There are layers for computation, data transfer, and storage all working together.

Today, many of those components have matured, and the broader Web3 ecosystem is entering a phase where the original ideals are finally within reach.

In 2024, the team here at COTI began exploring the challenges and opportunities of building a decentralized internet. The idea goes hand in hand with our core mission for Web3 privacy which is an essential piece of infrastructure for a self-sovereign internet to thrive.

As Shahaf Bar-Geffen noted in 2024, “Without privacy, Web3 is doomed to be a kind of castle in the sky that sounds great in theory, but in practice simply doesn’t work.”

This insight has shaped COTI’s roadmap ever since.

The prerequisites for Vitalik’s Web3 vision are now in place. Ethereum’s transformation to proof-of-stake, coupled with L2 scaling and off-chain messaging (e.g., Waku) and decentralized storage, has built strong foundations. But a complete decentralized internet must go further, especially in delivering privacy that is practical, scalable, and usable.

Closing the Gap Between Vision and Reality

A truly decentralized web must be supported by complete, production-grade tooling, that is fast, frictionless, capable of handling real-world complexity, and able to operate without relying on centralized intermediaries.

This means three things must work together:

Computation that can execute complex logic at scale

Privacy that protects sensitive data without sacrificing performance

Storage that is efficient, persistent, and economically viable

Until now, no protocol has been able to deliver all three simultaneously.

Today, COTI’s work shows that this is no longer the case and public blockchain is now ready to scale.

Where public blockchains are transparent by design, COTI provides opt-in confidentiality that doesn’t compromise auditability or trustlessness. This enables enterprises to use decentralized systems for sensitive operations, from payroll to asset management.

COTI’s privacy primitives are not standalone add-ons. They are protocol-level infrastructure, built into the blockchain itself, making them fundamental building blocks for the next generation of decentralized applications. And where ZK is limited in scalability, COTI’s privacy solution can support the complexities of DeFi and RWAs.

Let’s dig in.

High-Performance Private Computation with Helium

With the Helium Mainnet Upgrade, COTI delivers a privacy-first foundation designed for production use. Helium expands COTI’s ability to support confidential computation at scale, without introducing friction for users or developers.

Helium enables native 128-bit and 256-bit arithmetic on COTI, something that other protocols, including ZK, lack. This means that COTI can computing larger numbers which allows for the complex financial and enterprise logic needed in use cases like DeFi and RWAs.

Together, these advances position COTI as one of the fastest, lightest, and most cost-effective privacy layers in Web3, making private computation practical rather than theoretical.

Multi-Party Privacy Computation With COTI

Privacy in Web3 is not just about hiding values. It is about enabling secure joint computation, allowing multiple parties to execute logic together without revealing their inputs.

COTI’s implementation of Garbled Circuits, a form of decentralized confidential computing, enables complex encrypted computation on-chain without trusted intermediaries. It supports multi-party logic, preserves auditability when required, and maintains EVM compatibility, minimizing friction for developers.

This moves Web3 beyond simple shielded transfers toward programmable, auditable privacy suitable for business, institutional, and everyday use cases.

COTI as a Storage Solution

A decentralized web also requires efficient, persistent storage. COTI is emerging as a cost-effective storage and compute layer, with early benchmarks indicating efficiency comparable to centralized cloud providers, while remaining decentralized by design.

By combining private computation, programmable confidentiality, and efficient storage within a single stack, COTI removes the final structural barriers to building real decentralized applications.

For the first time, developers can build systems that are decentralized, private, performant, and economically viable, without compromise. [LINK to demo]

Web3’s Missing Link is Now in Place

In 2026, the decentralization renaissance Vitalik describes is finally converging with infrastructure capable of delivering on that promise. COTI has been building toward this for years, not as a theoretical exercise, but with practical, usable tools that make privacy and confidential computation part of the Web3 mainstream stack.

We’re not just witnessing a decentralized internet; we’re building it.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For all of our updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Ethereum’s founder, Vitalik Buterin, has recently re-stated that the network was never intended to be just a financial tool, it was built to empower people, to decentralize authority, and to protect individual sovereignty. Ethereum was in fact created on the philosophical foundation to create systems that make users self-sovereign, resilient, and private by design, as set out in its Trustless Manifesto, 2025.

As the Ethereum ecosystem evolves, new layers and solutions strive to balance scale with principle. Yet, few have directly tied their mission to this foundational ethos. COTI steps into that gap, translating Ethereum’s liberating philosophy into code and functionality that builders and users can apply today.

<a href="https://medium.com/media/b5540a11e042ed5ff89a1598edd76f6a/href">https://medium.com/media/b5540a11e042ed5ff89a1598edd76f6a/href</a>From Philosophy to Practice

COTI is an Ethereum Layer 2 dedicated to combining scalability and privacy without compromising decentralization. Its architecture responds directly to Buterin’s call to seek freedom and resist central points of failure.

How? Through its groundbreaking implementation of Garbled Circuits that deploys a powerful cryptographic protocol to allow developers to integrate private computation when and where needed, without requiring the entire network to become confidential. Users retain choice over what they disclose and when. This is a departure from the radical transparency that has characterized blockchain until now, offering privacy as essential infrastructure and a fundamental freedom.

Garbled Circuits: The Cryptography Behind Sovereignty

Garbled Circuits excels at secure multi-party computation (MPC) allowing smart contracts to operate on encrypted inputs without exposing the data. It can do this with unmatched performance: up to 3000x faster and 250x lighter than alternative privacy solutions.

Using COTI, dApp builders can design systems to handle sensitive information at scale such as financial data, user identities, or proprietary algorithms, without ever revealing them on-chain.

This means:

Users maintain control over their data while still participating fully in decentralized ecosystems.

Developers can build trustless products without relying on third-party intermediaries, using familiar language.

The network achieves censorship resistance, as no centralized entity can selectively restrict or monitor private computations, while remaining secured by Ethereum’s proven infrastructure.

Trustless Systems for a Trustless Future

Instead of depending on institutions or authorities, trust is rooted in mathematics and multi-party computation protocols. Through its system design COTI fulfills one of Ethereum’s core promises: to give people tools that make trust optional, not obligatory. Every transaction, interaction, and computation is programmable, and can be designed to occur, without revealing unnecessary information or creating points of vulnerability, opening new possibilities for use cases in finance, healthcare, identity management, supply chain, and real-world asset tokenization.

Aligning with Ethereum’s Core Values

Vitalik Buterin’s vision is a declaration of value. Ethereum, in its purest form, is a platform for human freedom expressed through decentralized coordination. COTI’s mission resonates deeply with this ideology, offering tools that make individual sovereignty in the digital realm a tangible reality.

COTI’s GC layer remains verifiable and secure even under adversarial conditions. Owing to its lightweight technology, COTI can run on any device, even mobile, offering developers the means to build dApps that are inherently resistant to censorship and control, applications that continue to function even if users or developers face external pressure. Launched on mainnet in 2025, COTI brings Ethereum’s idealism into practical, enterprise-ready infrastructure.

COTI is more than a scaling solution, it is a sovereignty solution. It transforms Ethereum’s idealism into actionable infrastructure, ensuring that the next generation of applications can truly set people free.

Summary

COTI is revolutionizing how privacy functions in Web3 by transforming it from a barrier into a tool of empowerment. Through its high-performance Garbled Circuits technology and programmable privacy framework, COTI offers scalable, fast, and compliant privacy for builders. It’s setting the new standard for decentralized applications, empowering communities and creators with trust, security, and control.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We’re excited to announce COTI’s newest partners Zoniqx, the Silicon Valley fintech leader redefining real-world asset (RWA) tokenization.

Through this partnership, COTI will integrate its programmable privacy technology into Zoniqx’s institutional-grade RWA tokenization infrastructure, enabling fully compliant, end-to-end, privacy-preserving asset workflows on-chain.

Our first joint initiative will be to bring the world’s first privacy-enabled RWA assets on-chain, creating a secure and compliant on-ramp to the multi-trillion-dollar RWA economy.

Streamlined Tokenized Assets with Zoniqx

Zoniqx delivers institutional-grade, compliance-native RWA tokenization infrastructure designed to power the full lifecycle of regulated assets across multiple jurisdictions and chains. As the operating infrastructure for tokenized RWAs, Zoniqx removes fragmentation by embedding compliance at the token level, ensuring interoperability, cross-chain standards, and real-time regulatory alignment.

Zoniqx supports the tokenization of equity, debt, funds, real estate, and energy assets, while enforcing KYC, KYB, accreditation requirements, and jurisdiction-specific regulations through smart contract-integrated compliance.

Beyond issuance, Zoniqx enables distribution, liquidity, and secondary market access through institutional rails, broker-dealers, exchanges, DeFi connectivity, and fiat-to-crypto settlement capabilities, helping institutions confidently scale tokenized asset programs.

Powering Privacy for Regulated RWAs

We’re embedding COTI’s privacy layer, powered by Garbled Circuits, directly into Zoniqx’s Tokenization Platform as a Service. COTI’s GC Layer is up to 3,000x faster than alternatives, 250x lighter, fully EVM compatible, and cost-effective and scalable enough to meet institutional demands.

This integration addresses the key challenge in tokenized RWAs: Protecting sensitive financial data on public blockchains.

COTI’s programmable privacy will enable fully-customizable confidentiality needed for institutions and enterprises, while maintaining compliance.

Confidential issuance, transfers, and settlements with end-to-end encryption.

Privacy-focused compliance workflows for issuers and investors.

Selective disclosure to meet regs while protecting sensitive data.

We’ll start with a pilot program to launch the first privacy RWAs, followed by on-boarding key enterprises and institutions to launch on our shared infrastructure.

Why This Matters

The RWA market is estimated to hit $30-trillion by next year, with only $500 billion tokenized. Institutions will not move trillions in bonds, real estate, private credit, and repos on-chain without end-to-end privacy & confidentiality.

Together, COTI and Zoniqx enable trillions in assets from around the globe to move on-chain. Including providing the secure privacy MiCA/SEC standards, blending TradFi scale with Web3 speed.

“For real-world assets to scale on-chain, privacy and compliance must be first-class primitives, not afterthoughts. Partnering with COTI allows us to bring privacy-preserving infrastructure to regulated tokenization, enabling institutions to confidently move real value on-chain.” Prasanth Kalangi, Founder and CEO of Zoniqx.

“Our core focus is to make privacy programmable, scalable, and compliant. Partnering with Zoniqx allows us to apply COTI’s pro-performance technology directly to institutional-grade RWA tokenization, where protecting sensitive financial data is essential for adoption.” Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI. Learn more at https://coti.io/

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We’re pleased to announce that COTI Mainnet will undergo the next step in its Helium network upgrade, estimated to occur on January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC. The Helium upgrade will further strengthen COTI’s infrastructure and performance for real-world privacy use cases. Including, improving the network’s ability to run confidential logic while keeping sensitive data protected. With Helium, COTI furthers itself as the fastest, lightest weight and highest-performing privacy chain in the world.

The upgrade will include a hardfork, and automatically take place at the protocol level at block 5,098,638, No action is required from end users, wallets, balances, and normal network usage are expected to continue seamlessly. To learn more visit: docs.coti.io and GitHub.

What’s included in the upgrade?

v1.2.0 introduces the Helium protocol fork and major enhancements across COTI’s high-performance private computation stack, focused on three priorities: more expressive confidential logic, improved arithmetic correctness, and better developer visibility.

Improved performance of arithmetic circuits

Helium delivers updated multiplication and division circuit implementations, with refinements designed to improve both correctness and increase performance. Pricing parameters for MPC computation are also adjusted to reflect updated computation cost.

Expanded application support

To enable more advanced applications to be built on COTI, Helium adds native support for 128-bit and 256-bit arithmetic, aligned across execution and private computation layers. This unlocks a broader range of confidential use cases, that depend on larger or more precise values, for example DeFi, to take advantage of COTI’s scalable infrastructure.

New trace/debug tooling for private computation

Helium introduces optional trace/debug capabilities for MPC operations. This feature is disabled by default and intended for development and testing, helping builders better understand and troubleshoot confidential execution flows.

Compatibility fix for Proxy Contract patterns

The release includes a fix to validateCipherText to avoid checking the caller’s nesting level, enabling use with Proxy Contracts.

No action required (for users)

As with prior upgrades, end users and token holders don’t need to take any action. The network upgrade is designed to be seamless and non-disruptive for everyday activity.

Why Helium matters

Privacy enables real applications to scalably process sensitive data that can remain confidential, while ensuring support for advanced logic and functionality.

COTI’s Helium upgrade moves our mission forward of being the fastest and most cost-effective chain for builders, enterprises and institutions:

Builders can run more complex private logic reliably, without workarounds or limitations.

Confidential DeFi, RWAs, and enterprise apps can handle large values and real financial primitives safely at scale.

Teams spend less time debugging private execution and more time shipping production-ready applications.

In other words: more functionality, better reliability, and a smoother path for builders.

Looking forward

Helium is another deliberate step toward COTI’s long-term vision: a network where confidential computation is practical, scalable, and ready for mainstream use cases.

We’ll continue to ship upgrades that strengthen the core infrastructure, to ensure COTI remains the fastest and most cost-effective chain to meet the needs of developers, enterprise partners, and users building the next generation of privacy-preserving applications.

Stay tuned for further updates, and as always, Stay COTI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

We’re thrilled to announce that ChainPort has integrated COTI as its 28th supported blockchain, opening a powerful new gateway for ADA and USDT to flow into the fastest-growing privacy ecosystem in Web3.

ChainPort is one of the most secure and versatile cross-chain bridges in the industry, renowned for its battle-tested architecture. ChainPort is trusted with hundreds of millions in volume, connecting dozens of chains with lightning-fast transfers, low fees, and full interoperability making it the ideal partner to supercharge COTI’s liquidity and reach.

ADA & USDT are Now Live on COTI

With this integration, users can seamlessly bridge:

ADA from Cardano: Cardano’s ADA holders gain privacy utility through Wrapped ADA (wADA) on COTI, tapping directly into COTI’s privacy-native DeFi, confidential payments, and RWAs.

USDT liquidity from 9 major networks: USDT, the lifeblood of decentralized finance, can be bridged directly to COTI from high-volume chains Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Base, Chiliz, and Stratis.

This isn’t just bridging, it’s a liquidity rocket for COTI’s ecosystem. USDT from these high-volume chains can now flow directly into COTI’s private DeFi pools, confidential payments rails, and private RWAs, while ADA holders gain access to COTI’s confidential smart contracts and multichain composability.

Contract addresses for quick reference:

wADA on COTI: 0xe757Ca19d2c237AA52eBb1d2E8E4368eeA3eb331

USDT on COTI: 0xfA6f73446b17A97a56e464256DA54AD43c2Cbc3E

Why This Matters: The Multichain Privacy Flywheel

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3, powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits that deliver industry-leading speed (up to 3,000x faster), and efficiency (250x lighter), while remaining fully EVM-compatible. Our EVM mainnet has been live since March 2025 and enables confidential smart contracts, end-to-end encryption, selective disclosure, and multichain composability without bridging risks.

Bringing ADA and USDT into COTI unlocks game-changing use cases:

Private DeFi: Confidential lending, trading, and yield farming with USDT keeps positions hidden while enjoying full composability.

Confidential payments & remittances: ADA holders can now use COTI for fast, low-cost, private transfers, ideal for real-world payments and enterprise flows.

Private RWA gateway: USDT from major chains fuels confidential tokenized assets, including bonds, real estate, credit.

Multichain privacy flywheel: Assets from Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, and more gain instant privacy on COTI, expanding liquidity for privacy-preserving apps while inheriting Ethereum security.

This integration supercharges ecosystem growth: more liquidity in private pools, deeper TVL in confidential DeFi, higher volumes on PriveX and beyond, and stronger adoption for developers building next-gen financial applications.

How to Get Started in 3 Steps (ADA Example)

Connect Your Wallet. Head to app.chainport.io and connect your Cardano wallet (Nami, Eternl, Yoroi).

Select Chains & Token. Choose Cardano as source, ADA as token, COTI as destination.

Confirm & Receive. Review fees/gas, approve, and watch your ADA arrive as wADA on COTI in minutes.

(Reverse direction or USDT bridging works the same, just swap the source and target chains)

ChainPort + COTI = the ultimate combo for privacy-first liquidity. We’re just getting started! Expect more integrations, deeper pools, and privacy going truly multichain in 2026.

Bridge now at app.chainport.io. Dive deeper into COTI at coti.io. Let’s make privacy mainstream together! 🚀

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Decentralized finance has thrived on transparency. Open ledgers, public smart contracts, and verifiable transactions have formed its core. But this very openness is now one of its biggest limitations. Public visibility restricts the design of competitive, trustless financial markets, exposing strategies, and inviting front running.

When every transaction and order is visible before execution, high-frequency bots can exploit pending trades, and sophisticated actors can reverse-engineer strategies. Institutions that rely on confidentiality in traditional finance are left hesitant to enter the decentralized space.

The next generation of DeFi demands privacy, as a way to keep computations secure without sacrificing decentralization or performance.

Why Transparency Limits DeFi’s Potential

The open nature of smart contracts has typically locked DeFi developers into a design space where privacy is impossible. Order books, lending positions, and bid data are fully visible to anyone observing the chain. This leads to significant inefficiencies and deters institutional adoption.

But this is no longer the only design space. On-chain privacy is now becoming a reality, offering a new pathway financial innovation in DeFi: the ability to compute over private data while maintaining trustlessness. Once privacy becomes interactive, on-chain applications can resemble traditional finance in sophistication, but without its centralized intermediaries.

Sealed bid auctions that prevent participants from knowing each other’s bids until settlement.

On-chain dark pools that allow large orders to be matched without revealing intent or position sizes.

Private lending agreements where rates, collateral, and terms remain confidential while still enforceable on-chain.

Confidential trading strategies and rebalancing operations for institutional participants.

AI Agents that can trade and interact with one another without exposing their underlying decision-making logic.

The Evolution of Privacy Technologies in Blockchain

The blockchain privacy landscape has evolved significantly, with various cryptographic approaches emerging to address on-chain confidentiality. Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for example, perform well for static proofs, but face challenges when computations require private inputs from several parties. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has opened new possibilities for encrypted multi-party computation, but struggles to overcome compounding computational overhead. Furthermore, Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have some advantages but really on hardware-based trust assumptions.

How Garbled Circuits Enable Interactive Privacy in DeFi

Enter Garbled Circuits: a breakthrough approach to secure multiparty computation (MPC), where several participants can jointly execute a smart contract without revealing their private inputs to each other. They maintain correctness while preserving confidentiality for each party involved, a critical requirement for enterprise-grade financial applications.

COTI’s implementation of Garbled Circuits on Ethereum brings the first-ever blockchain deployment of this cryptographic protocol, which has existed in theory since the 1980s. As a privacy-first Ethereum Layer 2, COTI’s approach delivers a unique performance profile, up to 3000x faster than FHE and 250x lighter than alternative privacy solutions, while maintaining full EVM compatibility through gcEVM.

This combination of speed, lightweight computation, and multiparty computation capabilities unlocks the missing layer of functionality that confidential DeFi requires:

Institutions can execute private swaps, hedges, or rebalancing without public exposure.

Developers can design lending structures and bid matching engines using Solidity with privacy parameters, leveraging familiar Hardhat environments.

Protocols can achieve fair competition without relying on off-chain intermediaries, secured by Ethereum’s infrastructure.

Applications can run on any device due to the lightweight design, making enterprise adoption practical.

Where privacy solutions require trade-offs between performance and security, or between decentralization and confidentiality, COTI’s Garbled Circuits architecture delivers compliant privacy, combining transparency with confidentiality rather than relying solely on anonymity. This positions COTI to enable use cases across trade finance, real-world assets, healthcare, identity management, and DeFi that require both regulatory compliance and cryptographic privacy.

Interactive, confidential DeFi is not just a feature, it’s the foundation for institutional-grade on-chain finance. With Garbled Circuits deployed on Ethereum, COTI is building the infrastructure layer that makes next-generation private financial applications not only possible, but practical at enterprise scale.

Summary

COTI is redefining blockchain infrastructure through programmable privacy — giving builders, communities, and institutions the ability to innovate in a secure, compliant way. By integrating privacy as a foundational layer rather than an add-on, COTI enables transparency, flexibility, and empowerment across all of Web3.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

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Imagine a fully on-chain poker game where you can’t see your opponents’ cards, or a strategy game with truly concealed player states. This isn’t science fiction; it is the potential unlocked by COTI’s multi-party privacy layer for Web3 gaming.

Currently, on-chain games face a fundamental limitation, full transparency. Every move, card, or resource is visible to everyone on the blockchain. While this ensures fairness, it makes it impossible to build true ‘Fog of War’ games that depend on secrecy or private player states. COTI is changing this narrative by introducing Programmable Privacy to the gaming world.

Breaking the Transparency Barrier with Garbled Circuits

COTI’s Garbled Circuits technology offers a breakthrough solution. As the fastest and lightest privacy layer on Ethereum, COTI enables computations to take place privately on-chain, up to 3,000x faster and 250x lighter than alternative solutions.

This innovation allows developers to maintain transparency for outcomes while keeping sensitive logic or inputs hidden. Because COTI is fully EVM-compatible through its ‘GC Layer’, developers can build privacy-preserving games using familiar Web3 game development stacks, simply adding privacy parameters where needed. COTI unlocks private strategy, in-game economies and even AI agent character play, opening the door to innovation.

From Theory to Reality: Santa’s Vibe Coding Challenge

To demonstrate the power of COTI, we recently launched Santa’s Vibe Workshop, a challenge that invited the community to “vibe code” Christmas-themed games using AI prompts and integrate private tokens on the COTI network. A simple challenge designed to demonstrate how easily privacy can be woven into gameplay. The community responded with incredible creativity, proving that the barrier to entry for on-chain privacy has never been lower. By using COTI’s prompt packs and AI tools, even non-developers were able to build sophisticated, privacy-enhanced games

Community Outcomes: Privacy in Action

The Santa’s Vibe Challenge produced several examples of how COTI’s infrastructure can be applied to gaming:

Christmas Snake Game (by @kagurakagura2_8): A festive twist on the classic snake game, demonstrating how private tokens can be integrated into simple, addictive gameplay.

Santa’s Onchain Race (by @CryptoExpressX): A fully on-chain 3-lane highway racer where players collect gifts and claim rewards privately using COTI to level up their cars.

The Grinch Won (by @OdinBor57812303): A strategy-based game where presents remain safe and private on-chain, even when the Grinch wins, showcasing secure asset management.

Santa Fruit (by @AiceKing27): A “fruit ninja” style game where all transactions and point multipliers are kept private, ensuring a fair and confidential competitive environment.

Santa Shooter (by @wahyu_miftakya): A fast-paced shooter that incorporates a private power-up shop, allowing players to upgrade their abilities without revealing their strategy to others.

Snow Breaker (by @PrasetyaIday): A Christmas-themed “brick breaker” style game where players bounce snowballs to destroy obstacles, featuring private token rewards and updated gameplay mechanics. •

Santa Tetris (by @marianalouca88): A Christmas-themed brick stacking game in the style of Tetris with private token rewards.

These examples highlight three core pillars of COTI’s gaming utility: Private In-Game Economies, Hidden Game Logic, and Accessible Innovation.

Expanding COTI’s Role in Web3

While COTI’s enterprise-grade focus makes it an ideal choice for DeFi, Payments, RWAs, and AI, gaming represents a natural expansion that showcases the flexibility of Garbled Circuits and the ability for privacy infrastructure to influence a new wave of Web3 gaming and blockchain entertainment. COTI provides the resources needed to build the fully on-chain games that weren’t possible before. The future of gaming is private , and with COTI, trust and secrecy coexist seamlessly.

Summary COTI is revolutionizing Web3 gaming by enabling privacy through Garbled Circuits. From the community-led Santa Vibe Workshop to complex on-chain strategy games, COTI provides the speed and privacy needed for the next generation of decentralized entertainment.

About COTI COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

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GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

The cryptocurrency industry is entering its third and most critical phase: the Global Privacy Era, according to Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase. He recently argued that the next decade of Web3 will be defined not by scalability or speed, but by protecting user data and financial sovereignty through robust encryption.

We couldn’t agree more with this visionary assessment. The shift from public, transparent ledgers to confidential, programmable computation is not merely an upgrade; it is the prerequisite for the multi-trillion market opportunity Balaji predicts, enabling everything from compliant tokenization of real-world assets to the formation of sovereign ‘Network States’, outlined in his influential book The Network State.

Yet, while we share the destination, we see a different pathway to get there. Balaji champions Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs as the foundational technology for this new era, predicting the rise of “ZK-everything,” including ZKYC and ZK DEX. While ZK is a powerful cryptographic tool, particularly for single-prover privacy, we believe a different technology is needed to be able to handle composable, multi-party, and real-time Web3: Garbled Circuits (GC).

The Millionaire’s Problem and the Need for Multi-Party Privacy

The core challenge of the Global Privacy Era is not just proving a single fact privately, but enabling multiple parties to compute a result together without revealing their individual inputs. This is the essence of Yao’s Millionaires’ Problem, the decades-old challenge that laid the foundation for Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC).

ZK-proofs excel at verifying the integrity of a computation, but they can face significant challenges when applied to complex, multi-party scenarios, often requiring intricate setup and high computational overhead for generic functions. This is where Garbled Circuits offer a superior, more pragmatic solution. GC is inherently designed for MPC, transforming a computation into an encrypted logic circuit that parties can cooperatively evaluate without exposing sensitive data.

The distinction is critical for the real-world applications that will define the next decade:

COTI compared to ZK Proof

COTI: The Programmable Privacy Layer for a Composable Web3

COTI’s implementation of optimized Garbled Circuits is the first-ever on a blockchain, achieving a performance profile that eliminates the historical trade-off between security and speed. This breakthrough is what makes Balaji’s vision of a private, composable Web3 technically feasible at scale.

As a privacy-first Ethereum Layer 2, COTI’s ‘GC Layer’ allows developers to build privacy-preserving applications, adding confidentiality parameters directly to smart contracts. This approach addresses a critical gap in the Web3 ecosystem: enabling compliant, enterprise-grade privacy that combines transparency with confidentiality, rather than just anonymity.

For the tokenization of real-world assets, COTI supports confidential pricing and transaction details while maintaining regulatory compliance. For decentralized identity, it allows selective disclosure and privacy-preserving verification. And for the “Network States” that require a high level of informational privacy and secure governance, Garbled Circuits provide the lightweight, high-performance foundation needed for real-time, multi-party operations.

The Future is Private, Programmable, and Practical

Balaji Srinivasan is correct: the Global Privacy Era is upon us. Privacy is no longer an optional feature but the essential infrastructure of the future internet. However, the future of Web3 demands a privacy solution that is not only cryptographically sound but also fast, flexible, and inherently designed for multi-party collaboration.

While ZK-proofs have their place, Garbled Circuits, as pioneered by COTI, offer the most practical and scalable path forward. By providing a programmable privacy layer that is orders of magnitude faster and lighter, COTI is building the foundation that will empower builders, communities, and founders to realize the full potential of the decentralized, private, and composable internet of the future.

Summary

Balaji Srinivasan identifies the Global Privacy Era as the next phase of Web3 and points to Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs as the path forward. However, we argue that ZK is insufficient for the task and discuss why Garbled Circuits (GC) are a superior infrastructure that are inherently designed for Multi-Party Computation (MPC), offering performance up to 3000x faster than alternatives, forming a practical foundation for the composable, private internet Balaji envisions.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

The crypto industry is entering a decisive transition. As technological innovation converges with global adoption, the discussion around privacy is rapidly evolving from a niche concern to a central pillar of the next era in blockchain. According to recent analyses from a16z, and The Block, privacy is emerging as the defining narrative shaping the future of digital assets.

From Feature to Foundation

Over the past decade, privacy has often been viewed as an optional or fringe component of blockchain design. However, as crypto matures from speculation-driven markets to real-world applications, confidentiality is no longer an add-on, it is a foundational requirement. Institutional participants, enterprises, and regulators now demand systems that can balance transparency with selective secrecy, ensuring both compliance and competitive advantage.

The blockchain privacy landscape has evolved through various technical approaches, from basic transactional privacy of zero-knowledge proofs to the harware assurances of Trusted Execution Environments and the programmable privacy of Garbled Circuits. Each has advanced the conversation around on-chain confidentiality. Yet the enterprise use cases emerging today demand a unique combination: privacy that is compliant, not just anonymous; performant enough for real-time transactions; and accessible to existing developer ecosystems.

The Market Shift in Motion

The momentum toward more privacy-conscious architecture is unmistakable. Venture capital conversations are pivoting; investors increasingly view privacy as the next moat in crypto infrastructure. This shift mirrors broader trends in data ownership and digital sovereignty. As privacy-preserving technologies gain traction across finance, healthcare, identity, and supply chain applications, builders and investors alike are aligning with this inevitable evolution.

2026 is positioned as the pivotal year in which privacy transitions from a speculative theme to the core value proposition driving the next major capital cycle.

COTI’s Garbled Circuits Approach: Built for This Moment

COTI’s mainnet launch has arrived precisely as the market’s appetite for confidentiality is accelerating. As Ethereum’s privacy-first Layer 2, COTI brings a fundamentally different technical approach to the privacy challenge: Garbled Circuits. COTI’s GC Layer uses this long-standing cryptographic protocol on the blockchain for the first time to deliver computation that is 3000x faster than its closes alternative, fully homomorphic encryption, and 250x lighter.

Crucially, COTI’s approach emphasizes compliant privacy: the ability to provide transparency where required and confidentiality where needed. This positions the network for the enterprise-grade applications that institutional adoption demands, trade finance, real-world asset tokenization, healthcare data management, and identity systems where selective disclosure is not optional but essential.

Aligning with the Next Frontier

COTI’s positioning aligns it with the most influential voices and macro trends defining the future of crypto. As the industry crosses the privacy inflection point, those prepared with mature, high-performance solutions will define the competitive landscape for years to come. The convergence of infrastructure readiness, market demand, and policy recognition creates a rare window of opportunity.

With partnerships like Soda Labs advancing Garbled Circuits deployment and a growing community of builders, COTI provides the infrastructure for privacy-first applications that can run on any device. Secured by Ethereum’s infrastructure while offering the multi-party computation capabilities that enterprise use cases require, COTI represents a complementary evolution in the broader privacy ecosystem.

As crypto matures beyond speculation into a global financial substrate, the winners of the next cycle will be those who have already built for privacy-first utility. With the global investment community pivoting towards privacy-enabled networks, the inflection point is here, and COTI’s breakthrough implementation of Garbled Circuits on Ethereum offers the performance, compliance, and developer accessibility that this moment demands.

Summary

COTI is building the programmable privacy infrastructure that Web3 has been waiting for. Through Garbled Circuits technology, COTI enables fast, secure, and compliant privacy at scale — empowering builders, users, and institutions to create the next generation of decentralized finance, identity, and AI.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Institutions are finally ready to bring their operations on-chain. Yet, as they enter this new paradigm, large financial entities, banks, hedge funds, and enterprises, will not be driven by hype or ideology. They have a strict, methodical checklist of requirements that must be met before deploying mission-critical systems to blockchain infrastructure.

Institutional actors demand privacy and compliance in equal measure. They cannot compromise on confidentiality for competitive reasons, nor can they disregard regulatory standards. The question becomes: which blockchain technology can deliver both the control they need and the cryptographic integrity that decentralized systems promise?

Understanding Privacy at Two Levels

The distinction between ‘account-level’ and ‘system-level’ privacy, articulated by the ZKsync founder, helps clarify what real institutional privacy entails. Account-level privacy focuses on concealing the details of individual transactions, while system-level privacy ensures that the network as a whole maintains segregation between private and public information flows, without leaking sensitive data.

The blockchain privacy landscape has evolved significantly, from basic transactional privacy offered by early zero-knowledge proofs to programmable privacy that can be tailored at the smart contract level. For institutions, achieving system-level privacy means reconciling internal governance controls and external auditability within a unified framework, one that preserves confidentiality but also meets the transparency demands of regulators and shareholders.

The Institutional Privacy Checklist

Before adopting any blockchain-based solution, financial institutions evaluate privacy technology against a consistent set of technical and operational criteria:

Confidentiality of transactions: ensuring that asset flows and counterparties remain undisclosed.

Protection of trading strategies: safeguarding market-sensitive information from public exposure.

Auditable compliance: allowing verifiers or auditors controlled visibility without breaching full privacy.

Granular access controls: providing permissioned visibility and enforceable policies for data access.

High performance and scalability: ensuring low latency, predictable throughput, and interoperability with existing infrastructure.

A privacy network that fails any one of these requirements will struggle to gain traction among institutional actors. The intersection of privacy, compliance, and performance is non-negotiable.

How COTI’s Garbled Circuits Architecture Meets the Institutional Standard

COTI’s privacy-first Ethereum Layer 2, powered by Garbled Circuits technology, directly addresses the most stringent institutional requirements. COTI’s architecture integrates advanced cryptography and compliance mechanisms from the ground up, with. no trade-offs between performance and privacy, COTI can deliver 3000x faster computation than its nearest alternative, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, while maintaining EVM compatibility.

COTI’s implementation of Garbled Circuits ensures that private computations can be performed without revealing underlying data through secure multi-party computation (MPC). This maintains full confidentiality of operations even when executed across shared infrastructure, addressing both account-level and system-level privacy requirements.

Its Ethereum Layer 2 architecture delivers the scalability institutions expect, enabling high throughput with deterministic finality secured by Ethereum’s infrastructure, crucial for real-time finance and settlement processes.

Built-in compliance features provide selective transparency, empowering institutions to demonstrate regulatory alignment through auditable proofs while preserving data privacy. This represents compliant privacy, transparency and confidentiality together, not just anonymity.

Fine-grained access control mechanisms through its GC Layer allow organizations to structure permission models consistent with internal governance, isolating sensitive departments or counterparties as needed while developers continue coding in familiar Solidity.

Together, these design elements provide an environment that matches institutional-grade requirements across privacy, control, and compliance dimensions. The breakthrough lies in COTI’s ability to run on any device due to its lightweight design, removing infrastructure barriers that have prevented enterprise adoption of other privacy solutions.

Why COTI is Purpose-Built for Institutional Finance

While various privacy technologies have advanced the ecosystem, each with legitimate innovations addressing specific use cases, COTI approaches the problem through an enterprise lens from its foundation. Its technology stack demonstrates a mature understanding of how financial entities operate: where confidentiality is strategic, control is mandated, and transparency must be configurable rather than absolute.

COTI achieves a balance few systems have managed that unlocks real-world applications in trade finance, healthcare, identity management, and supply chain, sectors where privacy and compliance are equally non-negotiable.

Institutions seeking to deploy secure, compliant, and high-performance on-chain operations will find in COTI a purpose-built platform that speaks their language, offering privacy by design, confidence by architecture, and performance that meets the demands of enterprise-grade finance.

Summary

COTI is pioneering the programmable privacy layer for Web3 — an infrastructure that allows builders, communities, and founders to create with trust and compliance built in. From Garbled Circuits technology to community movement, COTI merges privacy, speed, and scalability to unlock new possibilities across DeFi, payments, and beyond.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Despite years of innovation, Web3 has struggled to attract and retain users at the scale of traditional Web2 platforms. While the open and transparent nature of blockchain was initially a USP for new, trustless systems, it is fast becoming a blocker for the industry. The transparency of blockchain creates a user experience that feels unnatural, exposed, and unsafe for everyday interactions.

The key to mass adoption is making Web3 feel as private and intuitive as Web2.

Why Privacy Matters for Mainstream Adoption

The public nature of most blockchains means that every user action, transactions, data updates, identity credentials, is recorded on an open ledger. For developers, this transparency makes it difficult to design applications that mirror the privacy expectations users have grown accustomed to. Imagine a social platform where every message or interaction is visible to anyone; it’s no surprise users hesitate to engage with such systems.

Privacy-preserving technologies allow users to interact on the blockchain without revealing sensitive data, creating the foundation for adoption by everyday audiences. With this approach, users can enjoy the security and decentralization of blockchain while maintaining the confidentiality necessary for normal digital life.

How Confidentiality Powers Familiar Web2 Experiences

The blockchain privacy space has evolved significantly, with several networks and frameworks pioneering privacy layers that make it possible for decentralized applications (dApps) to replicate well-known Web2 experiences while still running on Web3 infrastructure. Solutions like COTI Network have contributed to this ecosystem evolution, demonstrating important use cases for on-chain confidentiality. These technologies support:

Private messaging systems that preserve end-to-end confidentiality even on decentralized platforms.

Identity management tools that verify user authenticity without exposing private information on-chain.

PayFi that uses programmable privacy to unlock everyday payments on-chain, without exposing users, balances, or counterparties.

These use cases represent a major step toward normalizing Web3 applications for non-technical users by building familiar interfaces with robust privacy foundations.

COTI’s Garbled Circuits: A Performance Breakthrough for Privacy-First dApps

While various cryptographic approaches have advanced the privacy landscape, from zero-knowledge proofs to fully homomorphic encryption, COTI’s implementation of Garbled Circuits technology brings a unique performance profile to Ethereum Layer 2. As the first to implement Garbled Circuits on-chain, COTI delivers computation speeds up to 3000x faster than FHE and a footprint 250x lighter than alternatives, while maintaining full EVM compatibility through its GC Layer.

This combination enables developers to build privacy-preserving applications that remove the traditional trade-offs between confidentiality and performance. For developers accustomed to the Ethereum ecosystem, COTI’s approach means they can integrate enterprise-grade privacy features without learning new languages or sacrificing the lightweight, fast execution that real-world applications demand.

The result is a more natural experience for the next wave of users who want security and transparency, but not exposure. This shift opens the door for industries like Payments, Real World Assets, ID managment and more, to migrate to Web3 without compromising usability or trust.

Towards the Next Billion Users

COTI’s privacy-first vision, built on the principle of compliant privacy that balances transparency with confidentiality, aligns perfectly with the ultimate goal of Web3: mass adoption. By eliminating the fear of public exposure and aligning user expectations with the privacy standards of Web2, COTI and the broader ecosystem of privacy solutions are laying the groundwork for global engagement. Privacy is not a niche feature; it’s the missing link between innovation and inclusion.

As privacy technologies mature and different approaches serve complementary use cases, the Web3 experience will evolve from experimental to essential. The next billion users will not need to understand cryptography or blockchain mechanics. they will simply use applications that feel familiar, safe, and empowering. And behind that smooth exterior will be privacy-preserving infrastructure, secured by Ethereum and optimized for real-world adoption, making it all possible.

Summary

COTI is redefining the role of privacy in Web3, transforming it from an obstacle into an enabler. Through programmable privacy powered by Garbled Circuits, COTI delivers fast, flexible, and compliant tools for builders, users, and communities, enabling trust, scalability, and innovation across the decentralized ecosystem.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io