Howard Wu

@1HowardWu

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

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Joined September 2016

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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Aug 18
Today we are opening early access to Shield Swap. Public blockchains expose the identity, portfolio, and activity behind every address. Anyone with a block explorer can reconstruct your trading history. Shield Swap protects your identity, portfolio, and trading strategies. View
Shield Swap
@ShieldFi
Aug 18
Today, we are opening early access to Shield Swap. For a decade, institutions considering onchain finance have faced an unacceptable tradeoff. Transparent markets expose wallet activity, portfolios, and trading strategies. Existing privacy infrastructure often lacks the controls
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Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Aug 27
After several cycles in this industry, 1 thing is clear. Privacy protocols ignored compliance, which put them out of reach for regulated institutions. That has been a major barrier to broader adoption. We built @ShieldFi on a simple idea: Traders need to protect their
Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Aug 24
When we started building @ShieldFi, one of the first questions was how much should be confidential. The easy answer was everything. The cryptography exists afterall. We chose not to use it that way. The previous generation of privacy protocols treated total opacity as the
Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Aug 20
Early on, we met with a trading firm to learn how they traded onchain. They used fresh addresses across different networks and believed their activity could not be linked. So we tested it. We indexed recent blocks across those networks and cross-correlated trades by size, gas
Shield Swap
@ShieldFi
Aug 20
Here is an exercise anyone can run in 5 minutes. Take any trader’s address from a public AMM and paste it into a block explorer. You can see what they trade, how much they trade, when they trade, and how often they rebalance. Watch long enough and you can start to reconstruct
Howard Wu
@1HowardWu
Aug 5
Onchain capital markets deserve the same confidentiality & compliance they’re afforded in traditional finance. Public markets never asked serious capital to publish its book. Jane Street doesn't. Citadel doesn't. Yet onchain, every position and every fill is legible to anyone
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@livingwithwill
Aug 5
No financial institution is keen on their internal strategies being visible to the world in real time. Creating a solution to that constraint to both allow for privacy onchain while at the same time maintaining compliance is one of the biggest unlocks to bring tradfi further