🔍 Digital identity is at a crossroads

Featured on Crypto news, COTI CEO Shahaf Bar Geffen explains why the future of digital identity is self sovereign, privacy-preserving, and user-controlled.

Read the insight 👇
https://crypto.news/digital-identity-must-be-self-sovereign-decentralized/

Currently, stablecoins power 30% of crypto transactions.
Yet almost every payment is still fully public.

The next evolution is confidential payments. For stablecoins to scale, they can't broadcast your salary, contracts, or spending habits.

Our latest piece explores how private stablecoins will be built, and how COTI makes it possible. 👇
https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-future-of-money-is-private-building-confidential-stablecoins-7300085493d8

Santa's Vibe Coding Challenge 🎅

🎄 Build a Christmas game with AI
🪙 Mint a holiday token
🎁 Win up to 10,000 COTI

Build a game in Santa’s Workshop. No coding required.
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Confidentiality changes the economics.

When privacy is programmable, you can build:
→ Data marketplaces that never expose raw information
→ Subscription models with provider anonymity
→ Markets immune to front-running

COTI's Garbled Circuits make this possible today.

Read more: https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-economics-of-confidentiality-exploring-new-business-models-on-coti-76cb980cf590

Ready to level up your AI + Web3 skill?
Join the Stay COTI crew to explore Augment Code and Vide AI!

A hands-on session guiding you to build & debug faster using the Vide AI browser and Augment Code tools! 🧠💻

🗓️ Tuesday 30th December @ 2:00 pm UTC
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🎅 Santa’s Vibe Workshop is calling
🏆 Win up to 10,000 COTI

→ Create Christmas games with AI prompts
→ Mint a privacy token
→ Share your game on X

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Web3 won’t reach the next billion users by being more transparent, it will get there by being more intuitive, and ultimately more private!
Our latest blog explores why privacy is the missing link to mass adoption, and how COTI is making Web3 feel as natural as Web2.
Read more 👇
https://cotinetwork.medium.com/unlocking-the-next-billion-users-what-web3-can-learn-from-web2-1fafb2f4a558

Institutions don’t adopt blockchains on ideology, they adopt them on checklists.
Privacy.
Compliance.
Performance.
Control.
Our latest blog breaks down the institutional standard for on-chain privacy, and why COTI is purpose-built to meet it.
Read more 👇
https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-institutional-checklist-for-privacy-why-banks-and-hedge-funds-will-choose-coti-ca9ef8899b10

NEW: VeilDex Whitepaper 📃

Scalable DEX + privacy. Built on COTI 🔥
Check it out 👇
https://x.com/Veil_Dex/status/2005903660723880395

What's the difference between secrecy & privacy?
→ Secrecy hides information.
→ Privacy secures information.

In a compliant world, you need full verification and control over who sees what information.

That’s why COTI created programmable privacy.
Watch the explainer

Privacy is no longer a feature in crypto, it’s becoming the moat, and a major investment thesis according to a16z.
Our latest blog explores why 2026 is the inflection point where confidentiality moves from narrative to necessity, and how programmable, compliant privacy will define the next cycle.
If you’re thinking about where crypto infrastructure is heading, this one’s worth your time.
Read it here 👇
https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-privacy-inflection-point-why-2026-is-the-year-confidentiality-becomes-cryptos-biggest-moat-7781e48bb1ba

gCOTI Token Update

We want to clarify that the current gCOTI circulating supply has not been changed and is fully aligned with the long-term vesting schedule.

We’re aware that, due to a technical reporting issue, this alignment was not properly reflected on CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko.

The team wants to assure you that there is no recent change to the tokenomics, vesting plan, or emission design.

We are already in contact with the relevant parties and actively working to have this corrected as soon as possible.

Thank you. StayCOTI.

Happy New Years 🎇
From the entire COTI Team

Thank you to our amazing community!
Here's to an unstoppable 2026 🎉

Balaji Srinivasan is right: the Global Privacy Era is here. But is he right about the tech? 🤔

Balaji bets on ZK Proofs but the speed and efficiency of Garbled Circuits is too great to ignore.

The future of Web3 demands fast, scalable Multi-Party Computation (MPC). COTI's GC Layer is inherently optimized for these needs.

Read our response and discover the fastest route to reach the Network State: https://cotinetwork.medium.com/balaji-srinivasan-is-right-the-global-privacy-era-is-here-but-is-he-right-about-the-tech-508ddd8f613c

A great article highlighting the undeniable return of the privacy narrative. We're excited to see COTI are part of the conversation alongside XMR and ZEC.

As CEO, Shahaf Bar-Geffen, notes, it's not market speculation but protocol fundamentals that will determine adoption.

That's why COTI is hard at work making privacy accessible with better tooling & high-performance infrastructure to support the next wave of Web3 applications.
https://news.bitcoin.com/privacy-is-back-why-xmr-and-zec-won-the-2025-crypto-wild-ride/

It's not too late to join Santa's Vibe Challenge!🎄

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The community is already building magic. Check out what they've made 👇

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📌https://x.com/CryptoExpressX/status/2006045243150574053

📌https://x.com/OdinBor57812303/status/2004408429910413365/photo/1

📌https://x.com/AiceKing27/status/2004456816592466032

📌https://x.com/wahyu_miftakya/status/2005580172788154823

📌https://x.com/PrasetyaIday/status/2007061726651613578?s=20

Learn how to use Vide AI in this week's guided session for Web3 builders: https://www.youtube.com/live/CTX0-SDunRg?si=pHiXqqq4t6AitThZ

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COTI recently dropped its goals for 2026🏆

Goal #3: Unlock the $30T Real World Asset (RWA) Market

In 2026 COTI will integrate with leading RWA infrastructure to launch the world’s first private RWAs on-chain, and open the floodgate for privacy RWAs.

Institutions cannot and will not move RWAs on-chain without compliant confidentiality. COTI’s fast, programmable privacy layer is key! ✨

Web3 gaming levels up with new privacy features 🎮🔐

COTI’s programmable privacy unlocks a whole new era of on-chain gaming.

🃏 Hidden cards
🤫 Private strategies
🌫 Fog of war

Powered by real community-built games 💫

Read more:
https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-future-of-web3-gaming-how-privacy-is-powering-innovation-7cee833a8b2c?postPublishedType=repub

Goals for 2026: Launch the Node V2 Ecosystem!

It will soon be easy and rewarding to deploy and run a node on COTI.

Community-run nodes will:
🌐 Improve network resilience
💎 Strengthen decentralization
↗️ Support scalability

Join in to help power the privacy layer for Web3.