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Assistant Professor Ganesh Viswanth Natraj Link opens in a new window

With Speaker

Dr Amit ChaudharyLink opens in a new window

Co-founder of zkFiLink opens in a new window a modular framework to preserve privacy in public blockchains and simultaneously provide decentralized compliance network.

Honorary research fellowLink opens in a new window at WBS Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at University of WarwickLink opens in a new window.

Amit was the Head of DeFi Research at PolygonLink opens in a new window. At Polygon, and led the R&D and incubation of innovative blockchain primitives and co-authored the whitepaper of Polygon 2.0. Authored multiple papers on the topics of zero knowledge proofs, privacy, novel design and risk assessment of DeFi protocols and crypto economics.

He is an active advisor and speaker in the blockchain community, and has served as a technical advisor for several blockchain startups. Working in quantitative roles in traditional finance firms like JPMorgan Chase Link opens in a new windowand ICICI bankLink opens in a new window. Amit starting his career as a computational fluid dynamics engineer at AnsysLink opens in a new window.

Amit holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

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.

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