Previously, we talked about PlatON recent plans on reviewing and reporting several researches carried out on confidential token transfers and how users simply didn't have to opt for privacy token rather dive into one that doesn't simply provide privacy but also verification and auditable and happy to say PlatON just published 1 of 10 different threads which reads below,
Technical Research Report on Confidential Token Transfers — Part 1/10
Confidential token transfers should not be framed merely as an "anonymous coin" problem.
They represent an infrastructure capability for:
stablecoin payments
institutional settlement
exchange treasury transfers
RWAs
enterprise on-chain business
The core tension
On-chain assets must remain:
✅ verifiable
✅ settlement-capable
✅ auditable
Must not be disclosed to the entire network:
🔒 amounts
🔒 balances
🔒 business transaction histories
🔒 certain transaction relationships
From → fully transparent public ledger To → digital financial ledger with controlled disclosure°
To read the entirity of thread 1 then check PlatON confidential report 1
In summary, thread 1 highlights why users don't simply have to opt for privacy token but rather more which are: stablecoin payments,
institutional settlement,
exchange treasury transfers,
RWAs, and
enterprise on-chain business.
All listed above are somewhat sensitive transactions which sometimes might not be opted to public view but also remain auditable when the need arrives, for such transactions the need to stay private comes into play, afterall no one truly wants to announce certain real world asset acquisition or institutional settlements, say a firm is closing a deal with two or more parties, they would want privacy within themselves while also ensuring verification, settlement-capable, and auditable are fully in place. PlatON research dives indepth on how the above can be achieved which they plan to share over the following weeks.
As mentioned above, to read the entirity of thread 1 then check PlatON confidential report 1 and truly you won't be disappointed.
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