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272: Privacy on demand — Shahaf on COTI’s quest to make blockchains confidential

Web3 with Sam Kamani
Jul 16, 2025•31 min•Ep. 273
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Episode description

In this episode, COTI Network CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen joins Sam to unpack why privacy + scalability are the two missing pillars holding crypto back from mass, institutional adoption. Shahaf recounts COTI’s journey from 2017 payment rails to today’s garbled-circuit EVM, explains “privacy on demand” for any chain, and reveals how AI trading agents and a perp DEX called ProX are already running on the stack. Topics include: why transparent ledgers threaten business strategy, how private computation unlocks CBDCs and RWAs, the upcoming node-license sale, and why Shahaf expects a “privacy summer” to rival DeFi Summer.


Key Timestamps

  • [00:00:00] Introduction: Sam tees up COTI’s focus on crypto-AI convergence.

  • [00:01:30] Early web3 story: Shahaf’s 2006 “Web3” domain and 2017 ICO insights.

  • [00:03:00] Payment pain points: Why money-over-IP still needs privacy.

  • [00:05:00] Transparent ledgers: How on-chain data exposes business secrets.

  • [00:07:15] COTI’s tech pivot: From L1 payments to garbled-circuit privacy EVM.

  • [00:08:45] ProX Perp DEX: Deep CEX-level liquidity, private orders, AI trading agents.

  • [00:12:30] Builders welcome: Low-/no-code grants and the Stake COTI initiative.

  • [00:16:00] Privacy on demand: Plug-in modules for Solana, Ethereum, Sui, more.

  • [00:18:45] AI + private data: Federated learning without sharing datasets.

  • [00:21:15] Roadmap: Earn-Create-Build platform, node-license sale, CBDC pilots.

  • [00:24:30] The coming privacy summer: Why investors should watch the narrative.

  • [00:27:00] Call to action: How listeners can earn, build, and join the ecosystem.

Connect

https://coti.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/coti-ltd/

https://x.com/shahafbg

https://il.linkedin.com/in/shahafbg
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