Vitalik Buterin Pushes for ‘Privacy Pools’ to Balance Anonymity With Regulatory Compliance - Decrypt

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin co-authored a paper on balancing anonymity with regulatory compliance using "Privacy Pools".
The paper builds on the Privacy Pools protocol, a fork of Tornado Cash, to include regulatory compliance.
It introduces "association sets" to group anonymous wallets and enable zero-knowledge proofs of regulatory compliance.
The paper seeks to balance privacy protocols like Privacy Pools with legal and regulatory considerations.
It comes amid legal issues for Tornado Cash, sanctioned for enabling criminal transactions, with founders now facing charges.

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