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WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DECENTRALIZED PRIVATE NEW INTERNET?

This article addresses the problems with balancing onchain confidentiality with regulatory compliance, emphasizing how the lack of privacy has impeded blockchain adoption for practical applications. It proposes a decentralized compliance framework that uses selective disclosure and threshold cryptography to provide privacy while enabling de-anonymization when necessary. This approach could allow for additional use cases like frontrunning protection and private governance votes, though critics question how it would practically operate with various government compliance requirements.

THE TRUE COST OF ELECTION MARKET MANIPULATION

Polymarket's presidential election odds have recently diverged from traditional polls, with Trump surging to 52.6% despite mainstream polls showing Harris maintaining a slight edge. It is estimated that manipulating the market by 4% would cost around $40 million. The potential manipulation, alongside a recent spike in trading volumes coinciding with the odds shift, raises concerns about the integrity of these markets. Polymarket's founder recently noted that odds differ from polls, with 50% odds being statistically very close to 52%.

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