NEW DEMO: What does privacy feel like in-wallet? Here's how it could look, with an easy on/off toggle.

'When money became programmable, it transformed finance.
When privacy becomes programmable, it will transform everything else.'

We’re entering a new phase of blockchain evolution, underpinned by privacy. Get ready, because everything is about to change.
Read the full story: https://cotinetwork.medium.com/programmable-privacy-a-new-era-for-blockchain-7d09bbf515e7

COTI Network is one of just four privacy protocols named in Ethereum's thread, “2026: The Golden Year for Ethereum Privacy.”

🔗 https://x.com/ethereum/status/1988991966223511746?s=20

The thread comes ahead of Devconnect Argentina next week, where COTI's VP of R&D, Guy Mesika, will attend “Ethereum Privacy Stack” and other privacy-focused events.

COTI’s programmable privacy layer is already live on mainnet, powering partners and real use cases with Garbled Circuits.
The next chapter of privacy on Ethereum is here.

COTI has partnered with Nikos Consultancy, the company developing Agora, a private, trustless auction marketplace powered by COTI’s Garbled Circuits. Agora brings confidential, low-fee, real-time auctions to Web3.
🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/coti-partners-with-nikos-consultancy-for-private-auction-marketplace-agora-a6081682f3bc

In case you missed it, Ethereum released a great thread yesterday "2026, The Golden Year for Ethereum Privacy" and we were proud to see COTI Network recognised as one of the four named protocols helping advance this frontier.

The thread was penned by Paul Brody, Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Global Blockchain Leader at EY, who argued that enterprises need more than private transfers; they need programmable privacy.

That’s where COTI’s privacy layer stands out. It’s live in the market today and already powering real use cases.

2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for Ethereum privacy, and we’re ready to help drive what comes next.
https://x.com/COTInetwork/status/1989277034460156169?s=20

Leaked drafts suggest the EU may scale back key parts of GDPR, the very framework meant to protect users from tracking and data misuse.
With weaker safeguards it will be more important than ever to secure privacy at the protocol level.
That's where COTI comes in.
🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-great-gdpr-rollback-why-on-chain-privacy-is-more-important-than-ever-1471b38a9b93

The privacy stack is evolving fast. Here’s how the leading Web3 privacy technologies (Garbled Circuits, ZK, FHE, TEE, & MPC) compare at a glance.

NEW: Binance has opened trading for COTI/USDC pair including Trading Bot services.
🔗 https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/d1248236870e4043aa6924718b14aa3f

Did you know? You can earn over 50% APY just for holding $USDC on the COTI Network!
It's easy to join in:
1. Use the Hyperlane Nexus bridge to convert $USDC for use on COTI Network: https://nexus.hyperlane.xyz/
2. Hold.
You will start to receive daily drops of Token Points (TPS), which you can convert to $COTI on the COTI Earn platform (earn.coti.io), when the current season ends.
*Min $10 to qualify

NEW benchmarks for private on-chain transactions powered by Garbled Circuits (gcEVM)💫
Avishai Janai, CEO of Soda Labs, demonstrates how confidential ERC20 transfers (gcEVM) are able to sustain 50-80 transactions per second (TPS), and on modest hardware too!
With COTI running the only live implementation of gcEVM, we’re seeing what real, scalable privacy looks like in production.
Read the report 🔗https://sodabubblelabs.medium.com/gcevm-confidential-transactions-initial-performance-test-b5cbf72b04ed

TOMORROW: New $COTI / $USDC pair goes live on Binance, available for Spot Trading and Trading Bots services.
This highly anticipated pairing will further expand access and liquidity for COTI.
Launch time: Tues 18th Nov @ 8:00 am UTC✨

A strong start to the week for COTI network as it catapults into the top #20 for perp DEX volume on DeFi Lama.
PriveX is driving momentum as the leading private perp DEX on COTI network. With over $68 million trade volume in 24 hours, COTI has now overtaken Bitcoin, Aptos, and SuiNetwork!
This is huge.
Track progress here 🔗 https://defillama.com/perps/chains

COTI in the News!
COTI's CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen chatted to Benzinga about the recent spike in privacy coins and how the conversation is shifting from transactional privacy → to Programmable Privacy.
“Institutions cannot and will not move trillions on-chain using a fully transparent ledger… programmable privacy is the dawn of a new era.”
The future is private logic, private AI, private DeFi, powered by COTI💫
🔗https://www.benzinga.com/Opinion/25/11/48908730/privacy-coins-surge-crash-and-reset-does-zcash-bull-run-signal-use-case-building-for-on-chain-anonymity

TODAY: Join the Stay COTI team for a hands-on vibe coding session using Google AI Studio, Google’s new platform for building with its latest AI models, like Gemini, and Gemma.
Stay COTI are guided sessions are perfect for beginners and anyone curious about AI.
🗓 Tuesday 18th Nov @ 2:00pm UTC
🔗https://www.youtube.com/live/NEcij7J345w?si=-_JGYlWzG-CjIAu7

Unfortunately the ongoing global Cloudflare outage is impacting multiple AI tools, including Google AI Studio, which we were planning to use for today's vibe coding session.

This is preventing us from delivering the stream as planned so we have taken the decision to cancel it. Apologies! We'll be back soon with a new date!

Carbon DeFi is back for COTI Earn Season 002! 🔥
Your mission? Deploy $USDC, $wETH, $wBTC, $COTI, or $gCOTI on Carbon DeFi to earn daily drops of Token Points (TPs), which you can convert to $COTI at season's end! 🔁
To get started:
1. Use the Hyperlane Nexus bridge to convert tokens for use on COTI Network: https://nexus.hyperlane.xyz
2. Visit http://carbondefi.xyz to deploy tokens and start earning today!

Exciting News! The new $COTI / $USDC listing is now live on
Binance!
Check it out: http://binance.com/en/trade/COTI_USDC
The pairing is available for Spot Trading and Trading Bots services.✨

COTI's CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen will be speaking alongside fellow industry leaders at the HSC Asset Management conference on December 9–10 in Abu Dhabi. The conference focuses on bridging the worlds of crypto and institutional assets.

The COTI Builders Program is live!
Privacy is trending and there's never been a better time to jump in. The COTI Builders Program offers grants of up to $100K, as well as tech support & marketing exposure. Whether you’re a solo developer or a team, we want YOU.
🫵 Join the COTI ecosystem and tackle privacy solutions for real-world use cases. This is your chance to shape the future of blockchain.
Apply Now: https://build.coti.io

Blockchain promised freedom, but full transparency has become its flaw.
From predatory wallet targeting to exposure of business strategies, Web3 risks becoming a tool for surveillance and control.
Now more than ever, Web3 must deliver on it's original promise and solve the privacy problem.
🔗https://cotinetwork.medium.com/privacy-as-a-human-right-why-web3-must-deliver-on-its-original-promise-fd49a5beeab2