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Data privacy concerns raised over a possible US CBDC in a hearing; while anticipated Type-1 zkEVM chain Taiko launches Alpha-5 Testnet Jolnir

There's been chatter around Vitalik's latest privacy paper on Privacy Pools, a piece of work published with Jacob Illum from Chainalysis and 3 others.

StarkWare and Herodotus collaborate to build an on-chain accumulator developer tool; while Oasis announces a native first-party block explorer.

Automata 2.0 is live - a modular attestation layer bringing machine-level trust to Ethereum; while Polygon Labs releases a ZK Chain Development Kit.

Privacy concerns over Base's Web3 social app friend.tech remains; while the law continues to rule against Tornado Cash, one year after facing sanctions.

friend.tech on Base has been trending the past week, but what about its missing privacy policy? Meanwhile, a16z pushes frontiers in the ZK space.

MakerDAO's Spark Protocol blocks access to VPN users, while new collaborations enter the Web3 privacy space, such as one between PancakeSwap and bloXroute.

An approved amendment to the Lummis-Gillibrand crypto bill could implicate privacy coins; privacy concerns over Telegram trading bots. Read on for more.