In this episode of Unchained Premium, Aleo Network Foundation policy chief Yaya Fanusie joined Laura to talk about a new paper he co-authored on stablecoin privacy alongside former Coinbase Head of Compliance Valerie Lila Jaber and Zcash cryptographer Matt Green and the infrastructure Aleo has built to make it possible.

The conversation covers how Aleo's programmable ZK architecture enables encrypted stablecoin transactions by default, how Circle and Paxos Labs have already integrated with the network to offer USDCX and USAD, and why Yaya, a former national security and intelligence official, believes privacy technology is now a strategic national security imperative, not a threat to one after looking at China's CBDC. He also points to a recent US Treasury report to Congress as a sign that the regulatory conversation around privacy is meaningfully shifting.