Privacy Thesis: Table Stakes for Blockchain Adoption



By Gavin Birch, July 27, 2023

The need for privacy doesn’t stop at the individual. We’re thinking about what privacy (and the data security that enacts privacy) enables for our world collectively, organizationally, and what will otherwise not be built without it. What’s to be had beyond the fight against surveillance? We think blockchain adoption has been at our doorstep for years, and data security is the missing piece. Knowable is heavily invested in Namada’s success and beyond Namada because we think that Ethereum and Cosmos will need to have privacy retrofitted to achieve meaningful adoption. Join us for weekly discussions beginning Tue Aug 1 @ 16:00 UTC in Discord

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Namada 🤝 Osmosis Alliance



By Gavin Birch, June 1, 2023

Ready for interchain privacy? Namada and Osmosis are integrating to make a privacy-preserving Osmosis front-end with Namada. We’re anticipating research collaboration, shared funding, and an airdrop, and further innovation. Here’s why and what to pay attention to. We’ll be running a local bare metal validator (and you can too! DM, email). Stay in the Know for alerts.

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Namada 🤝 Zcash Alliance



By Gavin Birch, Apr 22, 2023

Privacy loves company. Namada’s built on Zcash research, and now Namada plans to pay incentives and tribute to the Zcash community. We’re anticipating research collaboration, an airdrop, and a Zcash x Namada bridge to introduce Zcash into the Ethereum & Cosmos ecosystems. Here’s why and what to pay attention to. We’ll be running a local bare metal validator (and you can too! DM, email). Stay in the Know for alerts.

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Namada: Incentivizing Privacy



By Gavin Birch, updated Mar 16, 2023

Can Web3 reach adoption without privacy? Namada’s poised to launch in April 2023. Shielded assets will be rewarded with NAM incentives to bootstrap privacy guarantees–here’s why and what to pay attention to. We’ll be running a local bare metal validator (and you can too! DM, email). Stay in the Know for alerts.

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In the Know: Namada



By Gavin Birch, updated Feb 14, 2023

Privacy loves company, so Namada will reward you with NAM tokens for shielding any Ethereum/Cosmos tokens. Namada’s public testnet is running and we’re preparing for a Q1 launch. Stay In the Know and we’ll alert you about opportunities and what’s coming next.

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