Privacy Boost Goes Live on OP Mainnet and Soneium for Toss Won Stablecoin Trial
Privacy Boost Goes Live on OP Mainnet and Soneium for Toss Won Stablecoin Trial
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Privacy Boost is now deployed on OP Mainnet and Soneium, marking a significant step in bringing confidential transactions to the OP Stack.
The deployment sets the stage for Toss to run a won-linked stablecoin trial reaching approximately 30 million users in South Korea. Toss, which handles financial transactions for two-thirds of South Korea, partnered with Optimism to explore blockchain-based digital finance infrastructure.
Key features of Privacy Boost:
- Encrypts transfers and contract logic while maintaining transaction auditability for compliance
- Supports pre-confirmations, enabling private transfers within one second
- Provides institutions with privacy while allowing regulators to maintain oversight
The three-month proof of concept will test whether the Won can settle onchain while meeting Korea's strict compliance, privacy, and control requirements. This represents a practical test case for tokenized finance with built-in confidentiality from the start.
More details: Cointelegraph coverage | Optimism blog
Programmable compliance on the OP Stack means you decide who gets in, what stays private, and what gets screened before a single transaction hits.
Privacy Boost, the first privacy offering for OP Stack chains, now supports pre-confirmations. Private transfers become usable within a second while settlement continues in the background.
Privacy Boost now supports preconfirmation. Private transfers no longer have to wait for full onchain settlement before they can be used again. If you鈥檙e building on private payments, this changes what you can ship.
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