PM Eng @ProvableHQ building @ShieldApp @ShieldFi x-Chainlink x-SKALE, MBA @BerkeleyHaas. Graduate lecturer Blockchain Economics.
Joined April 2012
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Chadwick Strange retweeted
People often assume privacy is for bad actors. In my experience, it’s for everybody.
Think about your bank balance. Today, your mother and your best friend can’t see it. In most of crypto, anyone can, along with every payment you’ve ever made. Imagine paying your team in stablecoins and having every employee look up what their colleagues and their boss make. That’s an HR nightmare.
Humans evolved to understand physical privacy. We’d never accept a building with no bathroom stalls. We just haven’t developed the same instinct for digital exposure yet.
Privacy is intrinsic to money. The technology to deliver it with compliance exists now. I think it’s the great unlock for bringing the next billion people onchain.
Chadwick Strange retweeted
Howard Wu (@1HowardWu), founder of @AleoHQ and CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, argues that the biggest obstacle to private stablecoins isn't the technology. Instead, it’s the assumption that compliance and privacy are fundamentally at odds.
Check out this full episode of #TheBraveTechnologist podcast, hosted by @LukeMulks, to learn how zero-knowledge proofs enable compliance without traditional KYC data collection.
Watch now: brave.com/podcast/e140/
Chadwick Strange retweeted
Shield Swap protects your identity, portfolio, and trading strategies while keeping the market publicly verifiable.
View keys let you grant access to your wallet history without publishing it to everyone else.
Try it now: swap.shield.fi
Renegade paper shows that the privacy boundary was too narrow.
@ShieldFi model: shield first, then transact through blinded addresses…keeping wallet attribution off the public AMM path while trade economics remain public
arxiv.org/abs/2609.27100
Shield Wallet on iOS and Android is now available in Simplified Chinese @ShieldApp
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Nice to see more approaches to private inference.
Similar problem with the harvesting of data in public ledgers.
Anyone can get my friend’s real SSN from Claude
I'm Terrified of my data in training sets. Emails in databases. iMessages harvested. Cant trust the cloud as AI is crazy good at hacking
So I built Underdog for myself: on-device AI OS. Capable & 100% local. now my friends love it
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Confidentiality doesn’t make markets unknowable. It stops making participants the product. @ShieldFi
A public address is a track record. Anyone patient enough to study yours can use it to work out what you are likely to do next, then trade ahead of you.
@ShieldFi was built so a trader's identity never becomes part of that dataset.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.04373
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Chadwick Strange retweeted
A public address is a track record. Anyone patient enough to study yours can use it to work out what you are likely to do next, then trade ahead of you.
@ShieldFi was built so a trader's identity never becomes part of that dataset.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.04373
Chadwick Strange retweeted
The @ProvableHQ team has opened early access to @ShieldFi, a confidential trading venue on the Aleo Network.
Shield Swap separates the information a market needs from the information a trader should be able to keep private.
Participant identities, balances, portfolios, and links between trades remain confidential. Pool reserves, trade prices, transaction sizes, and fees remain publicly verifiable.
Try early access 👇
swap.shield.fi/
Read the full update 👇
aleo.org/post/shield-swap-ea…
Chadwick Strange retweeted
No financial institution is keen on their internal strategies being visible to the world in real time.
Creating a solution to that constraint to both allow for privacy onchain while at the same time maintaining compliance is one of the biggest unlocks to bring tradfi further onchain
@1HowardWu has been working on solving this problem longer than almost anyone
As the Founder of @AleoHQ and @ShieldApp Howard has spent his career building at the intersection of “confidential and compliant" blockchain design
Tune in tomorrow to hear his take on how he’s building for a new era of confidential finance
🗓️Aug 5 @ 2:10PM EST
Brought to you live on X only on @wrappedxyz and @realmotioninc
Introducing our speakers and schedule for the inaugural @wrappedxyz and @realmotioninc
Blockhouse Broadcast airing live August 5
Segment:
The New Era of Confidential Finance
🗓️2:10PM EST August 5th
Featuring:
Howard Wu @1HowardWu
Founder @AleoHQ and @ShieldApp
Hosted by Will Gaines @livingwithwill
Founder of @realmotioninc
Make sure to RSVP: luma.com/block_house
Why? In case you want to have a chance to connect with the partners and speakers for BD, hiring, and/or ecosystem building opportunities.
Chadwick Strange retweeted
Block House is officially live.
Watch here: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1vKpPPyEo…
RSVP: luma.com/block_house
Why should you RSVP in advance? So that we can matchmake you with partners and speakers for BD and ecosystem building opportunities.
Block House powered by MoralesHR and secured by @ChainPatrol goes live tomorrow at 10AM EST.
8 segments. 15 speakers. 6 hours of high-signal insights from leading blockchain and digital asset companies. No travel required.
Built by @wrappedxyz and @realmotioninc, Block House brings the entire ecosystem under one roof for a global audience of founders, builders, institutions, and capital allocators.
Featuring industry leaders from:
@AlgoFoundation | @Anchorage | @CapApp | @coinbase | @FireblocksHQ | Franklin Crypto (@FTDA_US) | @lifiprotocol | @plumenetwork | @0xPolygon | @realignlabs | @ShieldApp | @Stacks | @Ymaxapp, by @agoric
RSVP: luma.com/block_house
Why should you RSVP in advance? So that we can matchmake you with partners and speakers for BD and ecosystem building opportunities.
Chadwick Strange retweeted
Block House powered by MoralesHR and secured by @ChainPatrol goes live tomorrow at 10AM EST.
8 segments. 15 speakers. 6 hours of high-signal insights from leading blockchain and digital asset companies. No travel required.
Built by @wrappedxyz and @realmotioninc, Block House brings the entire ecosystem under one roof for a global audience of founders, builders, institutions, and capital allocators.
Featuring industry leaders from:
@AlgoFoundation | @Anchorage | @CapApp | @coinbase | @FireblocksHQ | Franklin Crypto (@FTDA_US) | @lifiprotocol | @plumenetwork | @0xPolygon | @realignlabs | @ShieldApp | @Stacks | @Ymaxapp, by @agoric
RSVP: luma.com/block_house
Why should you RSVP in advance? So that we can matchmake you with partners and speakers for BD and ecosystem building opportunities.
Chadwick Strange retweeted
this is what “privacy” looks like when it’s bolted onto a public chain.
it’s not surprising how easily @rdbotato was able to deanonymize these flows.
account-based models were never built for privacy.
Introducing Public Cash.
Privacy Cash claims untraceable swaps. $173M processed.
I matched their deposits → withdrawals in under 60 seconds.
I like privacy. But I don't believe in privacy on-chain. It's mostly used to hide rug traces and wash dirty wallets.
If you're using these tools thinking you're anonymous. you're not.
proofofpotato.com/public-cas…
Chadwick Strange retweeted
USDCx is live on mainnet, launched by Aleo using @circle xReserve, bringing an institutionally ready, privacy-first stablecoin to payroll, settlements, vendor payments, and more.
Confidentiality isn’t optional. It’s infrastructure.
Our mainnet launch partners include:
@usetoku, @RequestFinance, @dynamic_xyz, @BlockdaemonHQ, @chainalysis, @sodot_hq, @BanxaOfficial, @ankr, @Zebec_HQ, @HoudiniSwap, @ChorusOne, @artemis, @everstake_pool, @FACTBLOCK, & @HashKey_Global.
The future of stablecoins is here, and it’s private.
aleo.org/usdcx
looking forward to (someday) crossing paths with the legendary @RyanJLevy :)