Benedek Orban 🇨🇭

Innovation and tradition don’t compete, they compound. 📈 The Web3 Banking Symposium is a defining event and a catalyst for the next era of banking! A day where some of the world’s most influential TradFi & crypto native institutions come together, driving the next evolution of financial infrastructure. Thank you to @Ilya_YouHodler for the vision, to @niki_csanyi for leading the event, to @JeromeBailly, @EmiMoonsoon, Olga Corval, Paolo Bortolin for bringing more exposure and to Saskia, Giovanni and @LouisCryptoBcn for organizing.

🚀 Join Crypto Valley Ecosystem Night with Ripple at CV Labs Zug An evening of high-level dialogue + curated networking with leaders across finance and digital assets. 📅 Apr 8 | 18:00–22:00 CET 📍 CV Labs Zug 🪑 Limited seats 👉 Apply: luma.com/7obqyj04

👏 @thekingdombank_ is now a corporate member of CVA! @thekingdombank_ is an international digital-asset-friendly fintech bank based in the Commonwealth of Dominica, offering secure and modern online banking services to global customers. It provides multi-currency accounts, corporate and correspondent banking, competitive FX rates and fast cross-border payments, including SEPA, SWIFT and compatible digital asset transfers, helping businesses send and receive money easily worldwide. Learn more about their services: thekingdombank.com Thrilled to have you on board!

📚 Did you know that in just a few days our experts will come together to discuss the latest 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥? The discussion will take place in Zug at the headquarters of CV Labs and will tackle one of today’s key questions: how on-chain asset management is redefining the convergence between TradFi and blockchain. 👉 Download the full Journal: lnkd.in/dBeJbt4d A huge thank-you to every author who shared their work and to @Tilmar_Goos, Chair of the CVA Education Working Group, for initiating this project.

Latest progress on privacy - @zama privacy PoC went live right on Ethereum, starting with confidential USDT (cUSDT) and raising $118M on encrypted bids for its sealed-bid token sale. - @RAILGUN_Project's Railgun_Connect Prototype is ready, this is a privacy tool for private Defi interactions, tested on CowSwap and enabling shielded wallet use without unshielding funds. - @UmbraPrivacy mainnet launch set in Feb, bringing private Defi to Solana, powered by @Arcium MPC tech - The Solana confidential SPL standard is coming out in Q1 (also powered by Arcium), enabling Solana token to gain encrypted balances/hidden transfer amounts natively. - @mindnetwork_xyz launched x402z testnet, first practical on-chain implementation of FHE on confidential agent-to-agent payments powered by Zama. - @aztecnetwork wrapped up the world's largest privacy hackathon "zyberpunk". TGE incoming mid-Feb. - @virtuals_io enables Monero mode, enabling private cross-chain swaps.