Crypto's Privacy Problem: Why you don't have privacy!

About this episode

The episode explores the implications of default encryption on crypto and the necessity of onchain confidentiality for institutional adoption.

What happens to crypto when everything on-chain becomes encrypted by default? In this episode of the Ledger Podcast, host Kyle O’Brien (COS @ Zama) sits down with Rand Hindi (Founder & CEO @ Zama) and Charles Guillemet (CTO @ Ledger) to dive deep into privacy, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), hardware security, and why institutional adoption is making onchain confidentiality a must-have, not a nice-to-have. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Kyle O’Brien

Guests: Rand Hindi, Charles Guillemet

Topics covered

• crypto
• privacy
• encryption
• institutional adoption
• onchain confidentiality

Keywords

• crypto
• privacy
• encryption
• FHE
• hardware security
• institutional adoption
• onchain confidentiality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Zama, Ledger

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