THE COTI JOURNAL

Ideas for a
more private
world.

Fresh perspectives on privacy, crypto, and the freedom to move through the world on your own terms.

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PerspectiveSep 29, 2026

Privacy that moves with you: meet the new COTI

Travel, spending, and everyday connection feel different when privacy comes built in. Here is the thinking behind COTI's next chapter.

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from the COTI ecosystem.

A white wallet card showing a shortened wallet address, balance and history lines under a green magnifying glass, with dotted lines linking it to an ID card and a name tag, on a dark blue gri

PrivacyOct 13, 2026

Can Anyone See Your Crypto Wallet? What's Public and Who Can Link It to You

Yes, anyone who knows your crypto wallet address can see its balance and full transaction history on public blockchains such as Bitcoin

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Two stacked token balance cards on a dark blue grid: the back card shows a public balance of 1,250.00, the front card shows the balance hidden as dots and labelled Encrypted, with a green pad

PrivacyOct 12, 2026

Confidential Tokens Explained: How Encrypted Balances Work on Ethereum, Solana and COTI

Confidential tokens are tokens whose balances and transfer amounts are encrypted on-chain, so anyone can see that a transfer happened between

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PrivacyOct 11, 2026

Stablecoin Privacy: Who Can See (and Freeze) Your USDC Payments

Stablecoin privacy starts close to zero: on Ethereum and similar chains, every USDC or USDT transfer is a public record of sender,

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A green card with a padlock on the left, with dashed lines fanning out to four different one-time wallet addresses on the right, on a dark blue grid

PrivacyOct 10, 2026

Stealth Addresses Explained: How They Work and What They Don't Hide

Stealth addresses let someone pay you without the payment landing on an address the world can tie to you. You publish one

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PrivacyOct 9, 2026

COTI 2.0 Explained: Interphase, COTI Global and the New Roadmap

COTI relaunched on October 8 with a new mission, two announced products and a public roadmap. Here's what's live, what's new and when the rest is scheduled.

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A logic circuit of two AND gates and one XOR gate on a dark blue grid, with scrambled labels on each wire and a green padlock at the output

PrivacyOct 8, 2026

Garbled Circuits Explained: How They Work and How They Compare to FHE and ZK

Garbled circuits, explained in one line: they let two parties compute a result from private inputs, such as whose number is bigger,

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PrivacyOct 7, 2026

Digital Euro Privacy: What the ECB, Your Bank and Shops Would See

Digital euro privacy depends on who is looking. The European Central Bank says it would see only pseudonymised data and could not

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A design of the planned COTI VPN app on a phone, showing it connecting to a server in Zurich, Switzerland, on a dark blue background

PrivacyOct 6, 2026

Paying for a VPN With Crypto: What It Hides and What It Doesn't

A VPN changes who sees your traffic. Paying in crypto changes who knows you're a customer. Neither does the other's job, and both leave gaps worth knowing.

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