​About the Event

​A 35–40 min thought-leadership panel with leading voices from the privacy ecosystem, exploring why privacy is becoming a core primitive and how it will shape DeFi, L2s, and compliant on-chain applications heading into 2026.
This discussion dives into the real-world problems privacy solves today, the trade-offs involved, and what it takes for privacy to become the default standard in Web3.

​Topics We’ll Cover

• ​Why privacy is back at the center of the narrative

• ​What real problems does privacy solve in DeFi today?

• ​What does “compliant privacy” look like in practice?

• ​Ethereum is scaling, how do L2s differentiate next?

• ​What’s blocking privacy from becoming the default?

• ​Which use cases will finally push privacy into the mainstream, and how does it evolve from here?

​Panelists:

​Nathan Chiron — CRO at iExec
iExec is the builders’ home for privacy tools, enabling developers to easily add privacy features to applications and protocols.

​Amateo Kaplan — CMO at COTI Network
COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3, powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits to deliver fast, low-cost, flexible, and compliant privacy across blockchains.

Henri Lieutaud - VP product at Starknet Foundation
The Starknet Foundation stewards the growth and development of the Starknet ecosystem by providing the tools, resources, and support needed to create transformative solutions that drive the adoption of a reinvented digital world.