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Back to Episodes🔒 Privacy Is the Future of Solana — Kru Shah of Umbra Explains Why
Description
What does it take to build the most trusted wallet in the Solana ecosystem and keep it that way?
What happens when every trade you make on-chain is public — and your friends start copy-trading you without asking? That's what pushed Kru Shah to build Umbra, the first live app on Arcium's Mainnet Alpha, and he's here to break down exactly how confidential compute is about to change everything on Solana.
In this episode: 🧱 What Arcium actually is — the confidential compute engine powering Umbra (and why it matters beyond DeFi) 🔄 How private swaps work on Umbra — and why 7 seconds of latency is a trade-off worth making ⚖️ Privacy vs. regulation — Kru's take on Tornado Cash, Roman Storm, and the case for privacy as a human right 📣 The Elizabeth Warren challenge — Kru's 30-second answer to crypto's biggest privacy skeptic 💸 Raising on MetaDAO / Futarchy — how Umbra got $155M in commitments and only took $3M 🪙 Ownership tokens vs. meme coin culture — why token holders need to earn their seat at the table 🤝 Building alongside Arcium — why this relationship is unlike any typical "app built on infrastructure"
🔗 LINKS
🎙️ The Index Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theindexpodcast 🏢 Umbra Website: https://www.umbraprivacy.com/ 🐦 Umbra on X: https://x.com/UmbraPrivacy