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Amid increasing demand for blockchain privacy solutions, Chain steps up to the plate.
Taking the stage yesterday at our developer conference Construct, two of the tech leads from the enterprise blockchain startup previewed a new distributed ledger with enhanced privacy features.
Dubbed "Confidential Assets", the technology protects information and ensures that data is revealed only to intended parties.
With this forthcoming release, Chain aims to offer a privacy-oriented digital ledger that can scale to enterprise needs, something it claims that other privacy solutions like Zcash cannot easily do.
Work in this area continues apace, however, in both private and public blockchains. Chain's contribution will join that of others such as R3 and Digital Asset Holdings as well as Zcash and ethereum to offer corporations an increasing range of options that combine blockchain efficiencies with data confidentiality.
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Hi all! For those of you at our developer conference CONSTRUCT, I hope you had a great first day and that today's a bit warmer. I'm looking forward to seeing your comments on Twitter! #Construct2017
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