Privacy isn’t just a feature; it’s the foundation for a new generation of blockchain-driven business models. With COTI’s privacy-first Layer 2 on Ethereum, confidentiality becomes programmable, enabling creators, businesses, and communities to reimagine how value is generated and exchanged in digital ecosystems.
Privacy as a Platform for Economic Innovation
When privacy is embedded at the protocol level it becomes more than a protective measure, it can become a catalyst for innovation. Builders can design systems that use privacy as a competitive edge, and to manage and analyze sensitive information without revealing it, unlocking markets that were previously inaccessible due to data exposure concerns.
COTI’s approach to multi-party computation enables this without compromising on performance, delivering computation up to 3000x faster than Fully Homomorphic Encryption while remaining 250x lighter than alternative privacy solutions.
Emerging Business Models Enabled by Confidentiality
Private Data Marketplaces: Environments where encrypted datasets can be pooled, exchanged or licensed under compliant privacy rules. This can be used to further research or application development in healthcare, finance, and supply chain management.
Information Brokerage: Platforms where data owners can allow analysis or utilization of their data without sharing the raw information itself, enabled by COTI’s multi-party computation capabilities. For example, COTI’s new partner AdPriva.
Confidential Subscription Services: Businesses offering bespoke content or analytics while preserving the privacy of both providers and subscribers, all while maintaining EVM compatibility for seamless developer integration.
Each of these models can leverage COTI’s performant privacy layer ‘GC layer’ to achieve transparent operations without sacrificing confidentiality, something unattainable in most public blockchains today. By combining Ethereum’s security infrastructure with Garbled Circuits’ lightweight performance, COTI enables enterprise-grade privacy that can run on any device.
Privacy, Tokenomics, and Market Efficiency
Programmable privacy can be used to change tokenomics by creating new incentive structures around information flow. For example, participants can be rewarded for contributing data insights rather than raw data, promoting sustainable data economies. Confidentiality also limits the opportunities for front-running or information-based manipulation, reducing MEV and improving fairness across decentralized markets.
Building the Future on COTI
COTI offers builders a canvas for innovation where privacy and transparency coexist in harmony. Entrepreneurs can now design systems that align ethical data practices with economic growth, creating products and services that would be impossible on traditional blockchains and without requiring specialized cryptographic expertise.
How? With AI-led development. COTI’s new builders initiative, Stay COTI, is designed to help developers turn privacy-native ideas into real, working applications. Through hands-on sessions, tooling, and demos Stay COTI lowers the barrier to building on COTI. It gives builders a practical path from experimentation to deployment, supporting the next generation of businesses and protocols built on confidential computation.
COTI is more than a privacy layer; it’s the foundation for a new generation of private, programmable economies. The next wave of blockchain innovation belongs to those who see confidentiality not as a constraint, but as the ultimate opportunity, and COTI provides the fastest, lightest infrastructure to make that vision reality.
Summary
COTI is redefining how privacy works in Web3. From leadership vision to technical innovation, its programmable privacy layer bridges the gap between transparency, compliance, and freedom. For builders, it offers composable privacy tools; for users, greater control. It’s not just about hiding data — it’s about transforming trust itself.
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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