For episode 453, CEPO Joshua Maddox joins Brandon Zemp on the show to discuss COTI, a Layer 2 solution on Ethereum designed for digital payments using its own blockchain protocol.
COTI has made significant strides implementing garbled circuits on the real live blockchain in the first time allowing to secure multi-party computation (MPC) and enabling parties to jointly compute functions over their inputs while keeping those inputs private.
Recently, COTI Chosen to Participate in Central Bank of Israel’s CBDC Project alongside companies like PayPal and Fireblocks. COTI was founded in 2017 and has since raised over $500M in funding from prominent investors, including Cardano's cFund, Borderless Capital, and Cardstarter.
Before leading the ecosystem & partnerships at COTI, Joshua was the head of developer ecosystem and grants at Provenance Blockchain Foundation, Designed, led, and launched the largest grants program for regulated financial services on blockchain, distributing over $50 million.
Can’t contain your excitement? Don’t worry! You can watch and listen to the episode NOW on your favorite streaming service and podcast platform. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! 🎙️
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⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 | Introduction
1:05 | Who is Joshua Maddox?
5:42 | What is COTI?
6:42 | What makes COTI the fastest privacy layer in Web3?
10:42 | COTI ecosystem use-cases
15:14 | Mainnet launch
15:57 | COTI & Bank of Israel CBDC project
22:13 | Benefits of CBDCs
23:13 | Privacy-on-Demand
25:48 | COTI Roadmap for 2025
28:10 | COTI Community
🎙 COTI Links:
🔗 Website: https://coti.io
🔗 X: https://x.com/COTInetwork
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamaddox
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coti-ltd
🔗 Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork
🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wfAQfbc3Df
Cheers,
Brandon Zemp
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