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Introduction Email is one of the clearest examples of how a decentralized system can gradually become centralized over time. At the protocol level, email was designed to be open and decentralized: Protocols like SMTP and IMAP created a universal communication layer that belonged to the internet itself rather than to a single corporation. Yet despite…
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Most public arguments about privacy and compliance get stuck on a false binary – either you have privacy and regulators hate you, or you have compliance and users get surveilled. Anyone who has actually shipped a privacy protocol knows it does not work like that. Compliance is not one thing. It is six or seven…
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Vitalik has published two pieces in the past two months that together make the case for why AI agents need cryptographic privacy at the payment layer. Nobody else has laid it out this clearly. The first, co-authored with Davide Crapis (the EF’s AI lead) on ethresear.ch in February, proposes a protocol called ZK API Usage…
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At 02:47 AM, an autonomous operations agent named Nova quietly renews a domain. No alerts are triggered. No procurement tickets are created. No one from the finance team is awake. Yet a critical part of the company’s digital infrastructure has just been secured for another year. At scale, even the smallest operational payments become strategic signals. Nova…
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Curvy is a privacy infrastructure for EVM-compatible blockchains, and one of the workloads it was built for is autonomous agent payments – the kind of always-on, programmatic spending that AI agents, scheduled bots, and machine-to-machine services do without a human at the keyboard. This post explains why agents need privacy in a way that human…
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Curvy is a privacy infrastructure for EVM-compatible blockchains. The Curvy SDK is the developer surface for that protocol: it generates stealth meta-addresses, derives per-payment destinations, scans announcements, and signs from the resulting addresses, across every chain Curvy supports. If you are integrating private payments into a wallet, payroll tool, merchant flow, agent platform, or treasury…
