“Privacy is the one feature that’s critical for the world’s finance to move onchain.” That statement from Ali Yahya, general partner at a16z crypto, is usually read as an argument for privacy chains,
With the enterprise-driven push for blockchain in 2026, permissioned chains are finding their way back into the conversation. Consortium launches and institutional pilots have brought renewed attentio
Besu, as a permissioned enterprise blockchain framework, has been a prominent choice among banks and financial institutions for years now. In 2026, we have so many big names across the use cases. But
Privacy and banking are always close to each other. Quite close, in fact. A bank cannot allow one corporate customer to see another customer’s balance. One bank cannot allow a competing bank to study
When banks first started experimenting with blockchain, privacy appeared to have a rather simple answer. Build a private blockchain. But the question is, does limiting who can join a network really pr
Banks have spent years experimenting with blockchain. Some experiments stayed inside innovation labs. Some became pilots. And a few made their way into real payment, settlement, and collateral systems
