COTI’s Chief Ecosystem and Partnerships Officer,
Joshua Maddox, will join the Digital Government Forum in Cambodia tomorrow as a guest speaker, discussing digital transformation 🇰🇭
🔗 https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501795390/digital-government-forum-2025-to-showcase-cambodias-next-leap-in-digital-transformation-next-month/

Digital ID is expanding worldwide, but without real privacy, convenience can quickly turn into control.
Web3 can fix this!
COTI's latest blog explores how programmable privacy holds the key to protecting user sovereignty in the next digital era.
🔗https://cotinetwork.medium.com/digital-identity-or-digital-control-why-web3-privacy-matters-now-more-than-ever-e66dba6f1ba6

COTI's Chief Strategy Officer, Yair Lavi, sat down with Yellow today to chat about why privacy is essential to Web3 adoption. Key takeaways:
➠ Expect the first major wave of institutional migration to public blockchains in 2026
➠ Privacy-enabled settlement layers will become central to adoption
➠ COTI's chain-agnostic privacy layer solves for cross-chain, programmable privacy
➠ ZK systems can’t handle the amount of data or computation needed for AI-powered Web3
Read more👇
https://yellow.com/news/institutions-expected-to-move-to-public-blockchains-by-2026-says-coti-cfo

It's already Week 6 of the Yaru Create program, sponsored by COTI.
This week's topic, content automation and video creation, drew a great crowd from diverse backgrounds like pharma, ex-military, and marketing...a reminder that vibe coding is for everyone.
Take a look at stay.coti.io to take your first steps into AI-led creation.

NEW episode of The COTI Show is out now!
Hear from ecosystem partners, Houdini Swap and
ChainGPT, plus all the latest updates from COTI core team members 📢
Watch now: https://youtu.be/z5TJtzbjHqc

On-chain privacy is the missing piece in bringing real-world assets (#RWAs) fully on-chain.
As the global RWA conversation accelerates, COTI is stepping in with the compliant, programmable privacy framework needed to make this $30T market actually work.
🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-missing-piece-for-rwas-how-on-chain-privacy-unlocks-real-world-asset-tokenization-1ecfc1f51ec9?postPublishedType=initial

We're excited to share a preview of the fireside chat between
Shahaf Bar-Geffen (COTI CEO) and Moshe Cohen (PriveX CEO), ahead of tomorrow’s live session at the HSC Asset Management Conference: https://luma.com/hack_Abu_Dhabi2
The future of trading is private, programmable, and AI-driven.

Discover how:
• Privacy unlocks the next wave of on-chain innovation
• COTI is leading the pack with fast, programmable privacy for institutions
• PriveX protects strategies with its private perp DEX and AI agents, powered by COTI

Watch now to see what’s next for the industry:
🔗 https://youtu.be/gXVCysmXJZ4 🔥

Poland just vetoed a key MiCA crypto bill, revealing a core truth: privacy and compliance must coexist for Web3 to scale.
Our latest analysis breaks down:
🔹 The problem with the EU’s regulatory fragmentation
🔹 Why compliant privacy is the missing infrastructure
🔹 How COTI’s programmable privacy can solve the gap
Read the full article:
🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/poland-vetoes-eu-crypto-regulation-as-privacy-freedom-concerns-mount-f8916df9c564

TODAY: Vibe Code your own private dApp on COTI with guidance from the Stay COTI team.
You'll learn how to:
➾ Create a smart contract to register contributions
➾ Integrate it with COTI’s MPC protocol
➾ Privately compute who contributed the most
Start your vibe coding journey with COTI today, and bring your ideas to life.
🗓 Tuesday 9th December @ 2:00 pm UTC
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/live/zOALbC0QQVE

Thanks to everyone who completed the Private Token Creation Mission on COTI Earn💫
1000 private tokens have now been deployed on COTI!
The Earn mission is now closed, but we invite you to continue Private Token creation for your own projects using our easy tutorial: https://youtu.be/WZZiXNV6AqQ
Look out for new missions coming soon to http://earn.coti.io!

New Partnership: AdPriva x COTI ✨
For years, digital ads treated users as data to harvest. With AdPriva, we’re building a new era of private, AI-driven digital advertising.
➣ AI matches ads by context, not identity
➣ Preferences stay encrypted in the COTI vault
➣ No cookies, no tracking, no profiling, ever
Just contextual intelligence + encrypted user preferences powered by COTI’s advanced privacy solutions.
The $700B ad industry is changing!
Learn more: 🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/adpriva-partners-with-coti-to-power-privacy-first-ai-driven-digital-advertising-platform-38754def904b

Scheduled Network Downtime
We're upgrading COTI Mainnet tomorrow at 10:00 AM UTC 🛠
⇒ Users do not need to take any action
⇒ Funds are safe
⇒ The network will pause for ~3 hours, no blocks will be created in this time.
We’ll post an update once the upgrade is complete and everything is live again 📢
Thanks for your patience and support!
$COTI

Shahaf Bar-Geffen (CEO, COTI) and Moshe Cohen (CEO, PriveX) delivered a powerful session on AI, Privacy, and Trading at HSC Asset Management — 2025 Abu Dhabi yesterday 🎙
Key takeaways:
➣ Public blockchains expose traders to front-running, sandwich attacks, and strategy theft
➣ COTI addresses this by moving beyond private transfers to deliver full Programmable Privacy
➣ Introducing PriveX, the first private perpetual DEX built on COTI
➣ Prompt-to-trade AI agents are live on PriveX, marking the start of a new era in DeFi
Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/gXVCysmXJZ4

COTI's Mainnet upgrade is complete 💫
The scheduled upgrade has been successfully completed and the network is now back online.
⛓️ Block production has resumed
🔒 All funds remain safe
You can now continue normal on-chain activity.
Thanks for your patience!

Community Update: Several users have reported issues with Treasury withdrawals and the bridge this evening.

We are currently investigating these issues and apologise for any service disruption.

In the meantime, thanks for your patience.
Stay COTI

COTI's CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen sat down with Joeri Billast from Web3 CMO Stories to discuss the value of privacy.
'Privacy can give products a competitive edge. Brands can finally say we don't see your data, we don't track your intent, we can verify everything without exposing it, we can protect you at the infrastructure level.
This is a seismic shift in digital brand building'
Listen to the full episode👇
🔗 https://www.cmo-stories.com/1903080/episodes/18323869-privacy-as-a-product-advantage-s5-e53

Hey COTI Community wave 👋
Treasury withdrawals have now fully resumed, nodes are synced, and the network is running smoothly again.
All systems are operating normally. Thank you for your patience and support.
Stay COTI ⚡️

Ethereum’s latest Fusaka upgrade just answered a long-running debate: Privacy L1 or Privacy L2?

Fusaka consolidates the role of Ethereum as a settlement layer, and pushes specialization, such as private computation, outward onto L2s.

COTI’s privacy L2 architecture suddenly feels appropriate, and even inevitable. Read the full article👇
🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/the-privacy-layer-1-vs-layer-2-debate-is-over-fusaka-just-settled-it-b2ce6518807e?postPublishedType=repub