what's COTI?
COTI is a blockchain protocol designed as a fast, scalable privacy layer for Web3 applications. It leverages innovative cryptographic techniques, particularly Garbled Circuits, to enable selective privacy for transactions and data across multiple blockchains. This approach allows developers to integrate privacy features on-demand without compromising speed or requiring heavy computational overhead, making it suitable for DeFi, RWAs, and enterprise use cases. The protocol operates as a Layer 2 solution on Ethereum and supports cross-chain interoperability with over 70 networks through partnerships like Axelar. COTI's privacy mechanism ensures confidentiality while maintaining verifiability and compliance, addressing key barriers to mass adoption in decentralized finance. Users and builders can toggle privacy for specific transactions, enabling programmable and composable financial tools. COTI also includes features like COTI Earn for on-chain rewards and PriveX for private perpetuals trading, fostering a ecosystem where privacy enhances security and utility without sacrificing transparency where needed.
COTI CMO discussed privacy & real-world adoption with HTX on X Spaces, April 14.
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Co-hosted an X Spaces event with HTX on April 14, 2026, featuring the CMO discussing privacy in crypto and real-world adoption, with a $200 giveaway for participants.
COTI joins Binance and Bitget representatives on the jury panel for CoinGape's Crypto Impact Awards 2025.
PENGO/COTI pair holds roughly twice as much liquidity on Carbon DeFi, while trending strategies include GCOTI/COTI, COTI/USDC, and PENGO/GCOTI.
New COTI trading pair goes live on MEXC exchange tomorrow at 9:00 UTC with zero fees.
Runs COTI Earn Season 3 on Carbon DeFi with Token Points redeemable for COTI, ending April 7, 2026. Qualifying strategies start at $10 across assets: COTI, gCOTI, USDC, wBTC, wETH, wADA, USDT.
Named as one of only four privacy protocols in Ethereum's Golden Year for Privacy thread.
Volume spike accompanies +150% price rally this week, surpassing volume levels from early 2024.
$PENGO pairs maintain over 1,000 daily transactions for three days straight on the network.
COTI posts 60% gain today, ranking as #1 gainer on Binance.
Earn campaign goes live on CarbonDeFi platform, offering rewards to users who deposit and provide liquidity using COTI, gCOTI, USDC, wBTC, or wETH.
Earn campaign goes live on CarbonDeFi platform, enabling users to earn rewards by depositing and providing liquidity with $COTI, $gCOTI, $USDC, $wBTC, and $wETH.
COTI launches MetaMask Snap integration allowing users to send and receive private tokens natively within MetaMask, with concurrent loot airdrop for 1,000+ COTI holders and 500 COTI bounty for first 100 participating wallets.
Arb Fast Lane transactions increase +165% week-over-week, reflecting growing activity across CarbonDeFi and the network's liquidity optimization infrastructure.
PriveX, a decentralized perpetual DEX built on COTI network, achieves $300M+ trading volume with 100K+ orders executed, doubling from $100M to $200M in 14 days.
Privacy sector rotation identified as "kicking off" with ZEC leading at 6x weekly gains, with COTI positioned as privacy mid-cap project with "fully working tech" expected to benefit from the narrative momentum.
Private stablecoin partnership with MetaMask confirmed, alongside Cardano collaboration for Private Djed, with technology deployed live on Ethereum and 70+ chains.
Launches COTI Earn rewards program with Season 001 allocating 12.5M tokens over 6 weeks, minting Token Points daily on-chain for holders, DeFi participants, and social engagement activities.
Currently attempting breakout from falling wedge formation at key support level, targeting $0.088 price level.
CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen and CEPO Joshua Maddox are speaking at a privacy builders event on September 8th discussing confidential compute in DeFi alongside leaders from major privacy projects including FhenixIO, Secret Network, and Partisia MPC.
SEC alleges token is a security in Binance lawsuit, presenting regulatory risk.
Integrated Carbon DeFi, enabling automated trading strategies and custom liquidity positions with multi-chain deployment across Ethereum, Sei Network, Celo, COTI, and TAC.
PriveX integration launches with 60x leverage trading, L2 privacy features, and upcoming AI trading agents.
Trading competition launches with $65,000 prize pool and 1.7M PriveX points, running until July 6th.
New no-code infrastructure platform enables weekend deployment of enterprise applications with built-in wallet, payment, and AI capabilities.
USDC.e stablecoin integration goes live on CarbonDeFi, expanding DeFi capabilities.
Treasury V2 launch announced, requiring MetaMask connection to VIPER wallet for token reception.
Launched V2 mainnet with Garbled Circuits, achieving 1,000 TPS and partnering with Bancor, Band Protocol, MyEtherWallet, and Bank of Israel. Integrated Garbled Circuits into Bancor's Arb Fast Lane, enabling encryption of minimum acceptable outcomes for arbitrage routes.
Upcoming developments include Hacken audit completion, Nodes Management Platform launch, and ERC20 bridge construction.
Mentioned as having strong upward price movement.
Privacy-on-Demand feature expanding to Solana, Avalanche, Arbitrum and 70 other blockchains.