Category: Education
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Incognitee Feature Alert: USDT & USDC Now Available
Integritee is taking a significant step forward by enabling the usage of USDT and USDC on Incognitee. This development not only enhances privacy but also opens up broader opportunities to transact securely and discreetly, namely for Ethereum users. In this article, we explain how to bridge tokens from Ethereum via Snowbridge to be used on…
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Cybercrime: Healthcare & Crypto Hit Hard, Scams on the Rise
Every year seems to be “the worst ever” regarding financial losses resulting from cybercrime. Yet, the next year always presents worse numbers. From what we’re able to gather, 2024 and the start of 2025 were a worrying period not only when it comes to cyberattacks. Hackers were able to steal — from both companies and…
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Monthly Wrap-Up February 2025: Working on Incognitee, Discussing K-Anonymity & More
In February, we worked on upcoming features for Incognitee and on making it more robust. We also had a governance vote and new articles. Read through last month’s wrap-up to see what we were up to. Business Updates Incognitee on Polkadot Asset Hub Stats: In February, we met an important milestone: we surpassed Monero with the…
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K-Anonymity: An Important Tool to Achieve Collective Privacy
In the digital era, privacy is not just a preference — it’s a fundamental right. With blockchain transactions being publicly visible, ensuring anonymity is becoming increasingly crucial. K-anonymity is a core concept in privacy research that helps protect users by making their transactions indistinguishable from at least k−1 others. This article explores the concept of…
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On Anonymity in Web3
Anonymity is hard to get by when you’re online. Most digital products track their customers’ every step, often with the help of an advertisement almost-monopoly of Google or Meta. These companies try to learn as much about us as they possibly can to distill an ever more detailed profile of us. Often we get “free”…
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Monthly Wrap-Up January 2025: Launching Incognitee for DOT on Polkadot Asset Hub, Recapping 2024 & Releasing the Roadmap
Last month, we focused on preparing and releasing Incognitee on Polkadot Asset Hub, thus enabling the use of DOT for private transactions and messaging. Since it was the start of a new year, we also published a recap of 2024’s highlights and released the roadmap for 2025. Scroll through and discover what Integritee’s been up…
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Web3 2025 Predictions: What’s Going to Happen This Year?
Although seeing the future is reserved for fortune tellers and prophets, we believe predictions can be made by everyone who’s informed, and understands the market. In this article, we will highlight some trends we think will soar this year. Innovative and full-of-promise technologies such as blockchain and AI have been around for a couple of…
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Blockchain and Cybersecurity: Can Decentralization Solve the Biggest Security Challenges?
Blockchain technology has gained immense attention for its decentralized architecture and potential to revolutionize different industries — including cybersecurity. Some projects are exploring this technology’s abilities to tackle some of the most pressing challenges this area faces today. But are the existing blockchain tools enough to create truly powerful solutions? By distributing data across a…
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The Evolution of Smart Contracts: What’s Next?
Smart contracts are self-executing contracts that eliminate the need for intermediaries, offering transparency, trust, and efficiency. Let’s take a look into what the future has in store regarding this technology and its evolution. Powered by blockchain, smart contracts are immutable and irreversible, ensuring the integrity of transactions in various sectors. Even if you’re not related…
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Cross-Chain Interoperability: Major Issues & How to Tackle Them
There are now numerous blockchains besides Bitcoin. Popular examples include Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana, and Binance Chain. And although blockchain was designed to be decentralized, ironically, most function as isolated silos, and are quite centralized. Each has its own unique structure, token, and consensus mechanism, and “communication” between different ecosystems has to be created on a…