David Hoffman
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first heard Jan 2026
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Like does ARK and the validators, are they able to kind of backdoor the privacy or is the privacy actually like as strong, for example, as something like Zcash where if it is private, it is truly locked down and private.
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How would you qualify the level of privacy that you get on ARK?
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And just to make sure I understand the question, the answer, the trust assumption for privacy on ARK is via TEEs.
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That is how ARK achieves privacy.
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That is the trust assumption.
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We have an ARK privacy sector.
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Like we talk about it in the white paper, like essentially, yeah.
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Right.
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No one can look inside a TEE except for the manufacturer.
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manufacturers probably not doing that.
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Is there a plan to evolve the privacy to something like straight cryptography or are we satisfied with like the TEE as the trust assumption?
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I want to learn about immutability.
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Say I am a user on the ARK chain and I mess something up and I've lost a meaningful amount of USDC, $10,000, $100,000.
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And I'm actually also in this scenario able to prove to you that that USDC is like actually gone, locked, frozen, burnt, whatever.
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Am I able to get my money back in any particular way?
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What's ARK's relationship with immutability?
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a rolling back.
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The chain is not a property is not a
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There's like this rite of passage that all successful blockchains go through when they are sufficiently successful, and it's the Lazarus event.
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