We’re unironically humbled, honored and proud to announce 127 people backed us in @OctantApp's Epoch 13! Turns out privacy requires B2B sales too. Paraphrasing Eric Hughes, we must better sell people on privacy if we expect to have any. Time to lock in on Umbra v2. Onward.

Private payments. Public support. Thank you to our 127 backers and kudos to @OctantApp and the @GolemFoundation for making it possible to fund privacy as a public good. Umbra v2, here we come!

Privacy is multiplayer. It works best when everyone helps preserve it. Thanks to @OctantApp, we met the Curvy team & began exploring how Umbra payments could flow directly into @0xCurvy’s private pool, extending privacy beyond the receiving addr. Here's to more fusion dances!

Our co-founder @BenDiFrancesco explains why AI just made everyone an easier target. Think no one would bother tracking you down? AI made that so cheap now everyone’s on the spot. Hence the need for privacy. Back the teams protecting it before @OctantApp's round closes Wednesday

Guess who's also going to be able to ship its v2 with support from the current @OctantApp Privacy Round? Here's a sneak peak on what we've been building to improve the OG stealth address protocol on Ethereum.

48 hours left in the @OctantApp Privacy Round. 184 people have voted and helped unlock 69.61% of the 100 ETH matching pool. Allocate and help these 13 teams hit the target! Check out all the projects building better privacy tools for everyone online or onchain 👇

Umbra now supports USDG on @ethereum and @arbitrum. Receive @Paxos' Global Dollar at a fresh stealth address. And you can withdraw without holding ETH for gas.

One of the best aspects of @OctantApp's model is the collaborations it helps unlock. Here's to a more private world!

One of the best things about @OctantApp's Epoch 13 has been finding specific ways privacy projects can compose rather than just campaign next to each other. For example, stealth addresses protect the receiver but what happens after withdrawal is also key. To address that, we started exploring a concept with @0xCurvy where funds received through Umbra can move directly into Curvy’s private pool instead of being withdrawn to a publicly known address. The idea is to extend privacy beyond the first hop and reduce how much any one layer can see about the full payment path. It's not live yet, but we're working on it! Check out the teams building in this Privacy Round and vote for Umbra, Curvy and any project that catches your eye. Deadline is this Wednesday, Oct 21, 8pm ET.

We now have flying cars. Can we have private payments by default? Back Umbra v2 and other projects in @OctantApp’s privacy round so we can unlock the 100 ETH matching pool. Round closes Oct 21. And small contributions count the most! Let's build Privacy City together 👇

Thanks @OctantApp, @wslyvh, and @hisoka_io for today's stream. A few of the great takeways: - With AI everyone's a cheap target for a privacy attack. - Privacy is multiplayer, depends on what other people share about you. - And we need to defend our right to leave fewer traces.