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Solana Foundation Shares New Privacy Framework
The Solana Foundation published a formal privacy framework for institutional adoption, defining four configurable modes ranging from pseudonymity and confidentiality to full anonymity backed by ZK proofs and MPC. The Foundation cites Solana's throughput and low latency as the technical basis for deploying these techniques at production speed, enabling encrypted order books, concealed trade sizes, private credit risk calculations, and cross-bank data sharing without balance sheet exposure. The framework incorporates auditor keys that allow designated parties to decrypt transactions, addressing the regulatory compliance requirements that have blocked institutional DeFi participation. By framing privacy as modular and non-binary rather than a single toggle, the Foundation views the protocol as infrastructure for enterprises that need selective disclosure rather than blanket transparency or opacity.
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