What if privacy on the blockchain didn’t mean going dark, but going compliant?

In this episode of Privacy Now, Mihnea Stefanescu sits down with Dr. Adam Gągol, co-founder of Aleph Zero, CEO of Cardinal Cryptography, and the architect behind Blanksquare , a new middleware layer bringing Privacy-as-a-Service to the EVM ecosystem.

Together, they explore how the Blanksquare SDK enables private transactions, compliant shielding, and selective disclosure, all while running at subsecond ZK proving speeds.

Topics include:

🔹 The evolution from Aleph Zero to Blanksquare

🔹 Privacy as a compliance tool, not an obstacle

🔹 How subsecond ZK proofs make privacy usable

🔹 Selective disclosure & the “Anonymity Revoking” model

🔹 Why middleware beats L1s and privacy coins

🔹 The future of privacy, regulation & cryptography

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