TLDR Tech / Crypto
RAIL Didn't Build a Privacy Chain; It Waited for Ethereum to Become One
Framing RAILGUN's $RAIL purely as a fee story misses the real thesis. Where Monero and ZCash built separate chains and waited for the world to come to them, RAIL embedded itself inside Ethereum and waited for Ethereum to catch up on privacy. With the Ethereum Foundation now actively coordinating privacy improvements through FOCIL, relayerless gas sponsorship, and the Kohaku SDK, that thesis is beginning to resolve. This makes RAIL a native privacy layer inside the largest programmable settlement network in the world rather than an alternative to it.
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