It’s impossible to cleanly separate lawful funds from illicit ones without catching innocent users in the crossfire.
- Circle, a major stablecoin issuer, froze $12.6 million in funds, inadvertently trapping innocent users due to the difficulty of separating lawful from illicit assets on privacy-focused blockchains.
- The article argues that current privacy solutions on blockchains, while necessary for institutions, create a significant risk of over-broad enforcement actions that harm ordinary users.
- It advocates for a layered approach combining public settlement layers with private execution and programmable compliance, utilizing technologies like zero-knowledge cryptography to ensure both privacy and precise enforcement.
Topics: Legal regulatory, Infrastructure providers, Blockchain usage, 3 1 securities law classification, 4 1 tokenization platforms, 6 1 ethereum evm l 1 s, 6 2 layer 2 scaling, 25 1 customer due diligence, 26 1 transaction monitoring reporting, 33 1 automated on chain compliance, 33 2 kyc aml frameworks
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