i am a proponent of privacy very simply because its the counter intuitive thesis to tightening regulations.

$ZEC
has led the privacy season but there are a lot more projects that are building in the privacy space.

S tier:
$ZEC
- the bitcoin for privacy outperformed every asset
$NIL - humanity first blind computer
$NEAR
- one of the strongest architectures for AI Agents right now, agentic payments, low fees, chain abstraction
@Grayscale
onboard

A tier:
$CC
- institutional private chain, huge beneficiary of regulation
$AZTEC - leading privacy-first Layer 2 on Ethereum
$OCTRA - open-sourced the core HFHE implementation with public benchmarks

B tier:
$H
- zk verification of proof of humanity
$STRK
- zk execution Layer scaling Ethereum
$ROSE
- makes any application private and verifiable, no matter where it runs

C tier:
$DUSK
- privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure for institutional-grade finance

https://x.com/arndxt_xo/status/2058962785518924159

https://threadingontheedge.substack.com/p/the-privacy-bid