In this episode of CopperCasts, we’re joined by Rand Hindi, CEO and co-founder of Zama, to discuss why privacy has become the missing layer of public blockchain infrastructure. As institutions increasingly look to deploy real financial activity on Ethereum and other public networks, confidentiality around balances, trades, and execution is no longer optional — it’s foundational.

We explore Zama’s approach to confidential computation on public blockchains, why it chose not to build another layer one, and what this unlocks for stablecoins, DeFi market structure, and institutional adoption. A forward-looking conversation on how privacy, composability, and shared state may finally converge to make public blockchains usable at scale.