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As Eth celebrates its 10th anniversary, it focuses on everything that is an accident in the project – Defi, enabling smart contracts, and marking a vibrant ecosystem of dapps built on privacy.
Summary
- Despite the success of the atherium in DEFI and DAP, protecting sensitive personal data is a major unresolved issue.
- There is a place where this challenge is clear that Poaps (proof of the presence protocol), NFT is often used to verify the event characteristic.
- Poaps informs the presence of the real world of users, in public, by connecting the wallet to specific time and locations, the privacy risks.
- Poaprivacy, unveiled in athglobal ear, uses stalthed address to prevent the protection of the appearance data and on-chain tracking, it adds vulnerability.
As the Ethereum (Eth) celebrates its 10th anniversary, it focuses on everything that the project has accumeded – defi, enabling smart contracts, and sprouting a lively ecosycysytem of dapps. But it also shines a spotlight on the challenges that remain. Such a challenge is privacy, a foundation stone of digital freedom that remains albus on a public blockchain.
Despite a decade innovation, Etreum still struggles for conservation of personal data of users. On-chain transparency, once a feature, is rapidly seen as an obligation, for real world contacts such as health and
The tension came on the focus stage at EthCC in Berlin in this summer, where the privacy lawyer Migle Rakitite publicly challenged the Emita Foundation for the Foundation, which protects the crypto-indesters to funds or reprise the crypto-indesters, which protects the individual data like reproductive health.
The exchange not only inspired the manufacture of the prevention – an app that was one of the top 10 projects of EthCC out of the 334 entries and won three separate sponsors prizes – but, even more importantly, how to handle sensitive, non -consenting information by reducing Atheram Ecosystem.
On-chain privacy issue
On-chain secrecy is more important in the world only in the world, which is more important in the world of increasing monitoring and shrinking individual boundaries. Ethereum co-founder Vitallic Butlerin underlined that he called the developers to focus on four major stares of secrecy: Private money, private identity, private voting, and private messages.
But as a popraves demo in the ethglobal ear, there is another emerging border Private President.
Poaps – The small for evidence of the appearance protocol was designed as a digital souvenirs, allowing users to collect NFT that prove that they participate in specific events. From hackathon to crypto conference, they indicate a kind of web 3 capacity -participation, community engagement and event eligibility for rewards or governance.
However, there is a cool but serious privacy risk under that utility. Each Poap linked the on-chain a specific place and a user wallet for time, effectively created a public breadcrumb trail of other other WhatsApp.
“Anyone can basically track at your footsteps,” a god explained the demo by demo. “We love poaps, but they come to the cost of private.”
In an environment where wallet addresses are easily triangular and cross-references, it can demand not only personal privacy but also safety to separate its digital and physical life.
Poaprivacy: Protect the current on blockchain
To connect this overworked vulnerability, a team from the Athglobal Cannes unveiled the Poopravissey-A Tool, designed to verify the presentation on-change primary wallet address.
The center of the system has a clever use of steam address-a cryptographic technique that is able to use users unique, once added tokens that are unlinkable for their main wallets.
how it works:
- Users scan a QR code on an event.
- Instead of mining at their main address, they generate a random secret address using a stealth meta-edress obtained from their Etreum Name Service ID.
- The system produces two cryptographic keys:
- Key of expenses (to claim later)
- A viewing key (to manifest selectively to reliable parties)
- Minting is handled by minimal address, which means that supervisors cannot detect a pope back into the user wallet.
The project also demoed a private dashboard, where users can log in to Passke, can see their privately stored puppas, and can recover them as required. The core cryptography is based on an under -sortails atherium standard several years ago, but rarely deployed on a scale.
“Magic and cryptography is happening,” the team investigated, “and you can see your puppas – but others won.”
While there is still a prototype, the project was praised for a major privacy vulnerability in Poaps engagement, and access to special awards or governance.
The project was named one of the top 10 finalists out of the 334 entries with Ethglobal ear 2025, with other privacy-centered buildings, such as pre-masik religion private and private and private and private and privacylinks- Etheram-pushed to strengthen the social layer of Atheram, with secular violations.
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