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Announcements, engineering deep dives and perspectives on confidential on-chain finance, written and hosted here, plus talks and appearances elsewhere.

From Soda Labs
Engineering

500 confidential transactions per second, measured end-to-end

15,000 private ERC-20 transfers on Arbitrum, settled on the live chain, on ordinary cloud CPUs. Here is what we measured, how, and why end-to-end is the only number that matters.

Aug 12, 2026
Announcement

Introducing Bubble: confidential infrastructure for on-chain finance

Public blockchains were built to broadcast. For institutions, that is a problem. Bubble is our answer.

Jul 1, 2026
Engineering

Why garbled-circuit MPC is the right tool for institutional privacy

There are four ways to compute on data without exposing it: FHE, ZK, TEE and MPC. Institutions need a specific combination of properties, and one of the four delivers it.

Jun 1, 2026
Perspective

Compliant by default: privacy regulators can live with

Privacy and compliance are often framed as opposites. They are not, and the systems that treat them as opposites keep failing at both.

May 1, 2026
Engineering

Navigating privacy on public blockchains: utility and sovereignty

TEE, ZK and MPC, compared on two axes that actually matter: what you can build with each, and how much ownership the data source keeps over its data.

Nov 11, 2025
Perspective

Confidential stablecoins: privacy for DeFi's leading use case

Stablecoins move trillions across fully transparent ledgers. The technology now exists to make those transfers confidential and compliant at the same time.

Jul 25, 2025
Perspective

Why privacy is a prerequisite for prediction markets

Prediction markets aggregate what people really believe. On a transparent chain, the aggregation mechanism itself is up for manipulation.

Jul 18, 2025
Perspective

Trust no one, encrypt everything, trade safe

On a transparent chain, every pending trade is an invitation. Encrypted trading closes the dark forest without closing the market.

Jul 11, 2025
Perspective

Compliant privacy: the bridge between TradFi and DeFi

Linking TradFi and DeFi is like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Computing on encrypted data connects the two without demanding undue compromises of either.

Jul 4, 2025
Engineering

The gcEVM's first public performance test

100,000 confidential ERC-20 transfers in just over 30 minutes, on low-end cloud instances. The first end-to-end numbers for the gcEVM, and where they led.

Nov 16, 2024
Talks & appearances
YouTubeJan 29, 2026

Meital Levy participates in the Bitcoin Israel podcast! [Hebrew]

Meital Levy, co-founder of Soda Labs, discusses blockchain privacy and security on the Bitcoin Israel podcast.

LinkedInNov 29, 2025

Soda Labs Launches a Bug Bounty Program

Bug bounty: up to $56,000 for critical findings on the Soda Labs stack.

YouTubeDec 11, 2024

Introducing the gcEVM | Avishay Yanai | DeCompute 2024

Introduction to the gcEVM, a garbled circuit enhanced EVM-compatible blockchain, presented at DeCompute 2024.

YouTubeOct 31, 2024

Unlocking Confidentiality: Chainlink and Soda Labs' Collaboration | SmartCon Hong Kong

Case study on the Chainlink + Soda Labs collaboration, presented at SmartCon Hong Kong.

YouTubeSep 24, 2024

Garbled EVM (gcEVM): Challenges & Design | Encrypt Brussels 2024

Deep dive into the design of the Garbled Circuit Enhanced EVM, presented at Encrypt Brussels 2024.