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Howard Wu

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Howard Wu

@1HowardWu

building @ShieldApp // founder @AleoHQ // coauthor of libsnark, DIZK, & Zexe

USA

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Joined September 2016

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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Jan 21
2026 is the year of the privacy supercycle. it's the year we'll finally see: - mainstream institutional adoption - on-chain payroll normalized - private swaps & RWAs - mitigated whale-watching - on-chain privacy as a general expectation ➕ more read all my predictions to find
Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Jan 21
Article
2026 Predictions: The Privacy Supercycle Begins
2025 was a standout year for on-chain privacy, setting the stage for a massive wave of adoption in 2026. In case you missed it, check out my recent recap of the biggest milestones for privacy last...
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Nov 1, 2025
Privacy exists in different forms, depending on who and what you are protecting. Understanding privacy levels is important because each goal is different. Level 0: Transparency This is where most blockchains operate. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most L1s and L2s are public by
Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io
@EliBenSasson
Oct 27, 2025
Note about Privacy and its different flavours: Privacy is not just one thing. It can come in many versions: - Privacy from other users, but not from the operator - Privacy from everyone, including the operator - Privacy that hides details of a tx (e.g. amount of an asset) but
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Nov 2, 2025
In global systems, privacy can't be rigid. Different jurisdictions have different requirements, and businesses have different needs, which is why configurable compliance and selective disclosure matter. Selective disclosure means proving what regulators need to see without
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Jan 20, 2025
Never forget, $ALEO was founded in America, built by Americans, & proudly launched from the USA! 🇺🇸🤝🦁
Bobby Ong
@bobbyong
Jan 20, 2025
Many of you requested for a "Made in USA" category. It's now on CoinGecko!
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Oct 27, 2023
ZK tech will be bigger than just crypto. It will be foundational to the web.
nicola 🏟️
@iamnotnicola
Oct 26, 2023
My bet is that the next ZK tech unicorn won't be so focused on blockchain use cases
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Nov 2, 2025
Equifax’s 2017 breach exposed the credit records of 147 million people. Target’s 2013 incident compromised 40 million payment cards, Facebook has faced multiple large-scale data leaks over the years, affecting hundreds of millions of users... Each time, the story was the same:
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Nov 1, 2025
Apparently, NEO is going to be teleoperated by a human, and not autonomous, meaning a human will look through the robot’s camera eyes into your house to do the laundry, chores, etc. This has surveillance written all over it.
1X
@1x_tech
Oct 28, 2025
NEO The Home Robot Order Today
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Oct 28, 2025
For years, privacy was treated as an afterthought in crypto. After 10+ years building privacy infrastructure, it’s exciting to finally see the momentum taking shape. The data proves what we've known all along, that privacy is the missing link for blockchain adoption. With USAD,
Jason McGee 🛡
@aquietinvestor
Oct 24, 2025
The privacy narrative is gaining momentum and will define the next wave of adoption.
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Nov 3, 2025
The problem with privacy in crypto is that addressing only one layer leaves the entire system exposed. For example, a business might use a privacy-aware protocol but still process payments through a sequencer that can censor or trace transactions. Even if the wallet hides
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Nov 5, 2025
Storing high-value private keys in TEEs on servers you don't control is fundamentally unsafe because they were never designed to be the root of trust for billions in assets. If your threat model assumes TEEs are secure, you’re building on a false foundation. They can help with
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Jul 19, 2018
Our two years of hard work distributing zkSNARKs now enables computations of up to billions of logical gates (100x larger than previous state-of-the-art work)! Stay tuned for our release of the DIZK library!
IACR
@IACR_News
Jul 19, 2018
#ePrint DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System: H Wu, W Zheng, A Chiesa, RA Popa, I Stoica ia.cr/2018/691
Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Apr 3, 2019
We've released the ZEXE codebase on Github!
GitHub - arkworks-rs/snark: Interfaces for Relations and SNARKs for these relations
From github.com
Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Sep 18, 2024
Congratulations to the @AleoHQ team and the entire ecosystem of developers, validators, and provers for their relentless commitment to bringing this ZK L1 into the world! Aleo represents a new paradigm — one that enables scalability, confidentiality, and interoperability for
Aleo
@AleoHQ
Sep 18, 2024
wen mainnet? now.
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Feb 7, 2022
With 10,000+ nodes, our ecosystem is growing and I'm proud to announce Aleo has raised $200M in the largest funding round for a zero-knowledge company. We're using this funding to bring zero-knowledge cryptography to the web, read about it here: aleo.org/post/bringing-…