Ganesh hosted Amit Chaudhary for his webinar; Balancing Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance.

Privacy is one of the essential pillars for the widespread adoption of blockchains, but public blockchains are transparent by nature.

Interacting with a public blockchain means exposing personal information, financial asset holdings, and sensitive data to the public. We can utilise modern cryptographic techniques like zero-knowledge proofs to enable privacy, but the question is how to design privacy-enhancing Web3 technologies while discouraging bad actors from abusing those same technologies. We will discuss how we can balance blockchain privacy with the programmable disclosure of secrets and design regulatory-compliant applications on public blockchains.

WBS Gillmore Centre Symposium Webinar - Balancing Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance on 26 April with Amit Chaudhary and Ganesh Viswanath Natraj

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/subjects/finance/gillmore/webinar/2024-04-19/

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9f14046c-de31-444f-917f-011555e3984c@09bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc

Ganesh will be presenting an Introduction and Motivation -

DeFi is a blockchain based form of finance that runs on smart contracts and does not need a centralized financial intermediary, such as a market maker or a bank. Lending platforms running on the Ethereum blockchain, such as Compound, set interest rates and allocate funds automatically through algorithms. From the recent paper. You can find more details on th paper via SSRN.