Growing institutional interest in blockchain is bringing fresh attention to privacy infrastructure, where projects like SilentSwap reflect how the industry is adapting to real-world requirements.
Blockchain’s signature feature, its transparency, has also become a hurdle for wider adoption. The visibility that originally helped people trust decentralized systems now exposes operational information and increases vulnerability. Chainalysis’s 2025 Mid-Year Crime Report estimates that more than 2.17 billion dollars has been taken from crypto services so far this year, which already exceeds the losses reported for all of 2024. The scale of these incidents has pushed many institutions to look more seriously at privacy-focused infrastructure, especially as concerns about data exposure remain a central reason they hesitate to adopt blockchain.
The Privacy Imperative for Institutions
Transparency can strengthen public confidence, but companies often need to limit who sees what. Conversations in the industry have shown that organizations continue to view confidentiality and regulatory clarity as core requirements for blockchain use. For banks, corporates, and fintech firms testing tokenization or settlement systems, transaction-level visibility can reveal information such as supplier relationships, payroll flows, or strategic decisions that are not intended for public circulation.
Demand for privacy tools is growing in parallel with the expansion of digital payments. Worldpay’s Global Payments Report 2024 expects digital wallets to handle 49 percent of global transaction value by 2027, which would total more than 25 trillion dollars each year. That number is close to twice the 13.9 trillion dollars processed in 2023. As more capital moves through digital channels, consistent privacy controls are becoming a central factor in whether institutions decide to build on blockchain networks.
SilentSwap V2: Building Privacy at the Protocol Layer
SilentSwap released Version 2 (V2) of its non-custodial privacy platform on October 31, 2025, reflecting this broader evolution in blockchain architecture. It functions as a non-custodial privacy layer for digital asset transactions, designed to safeguard sensitive data while maintaining regulatory compliance.
The system enables confidential value transfer across multiple blockchains without disclosing transaction details publicly. Rather than relying on custodial intermediaries, privacy is embedded at the protocol level, allowing institutions or the retail user to maintain control of their assets while reducing public visibility of operational activity.
Shibtoshi’s Approach to Institutional Privacy
Founder and CEO Shibtoshi, describes this approach as protecting organizational interests without compromising compliance. The focus is on giving retail users, enterprises and financial institutions a mechanism to transact securely in open networks while preserving discretion.
“Transparency is important, but operational privacy and regulatory certainty are what make blockchain usable at scale,” said Shibtoshi, Founder and CEO of SilentSwap. “SilentSwap V2 was designed with institutions in mind, introducing privacy features that protect sensitive information without sacrificing compliance or performance. It’s about making blockchain safe for serious capital.”
Expanding SilentSwap’s Strategic Direction
SilentSwap expanded its leadership in 2025 with two new advisory appointments.
Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin and Managing Director of the Litecoin Foundation, joined the company’s Advisory Board. A veteran engineer, Lee worked at Google on Chrome OS and served as Director of Engineering at Coinbase from 2013 to 2017.
CryptoFace, a trader and founder of Market Cipher known for his live-streamed market activity, also joined the Advisory Board. He brings insights into market behavior and trading psychology.
“SilentSwap has built exactly what the cryptocurrency industry desperately needs – a privacy solution that actually works at scale without compromising on speed or user experience,” said Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin and Strategic Advisor to SilentSwap. “The reality is that blockchain’s transparency has become a massive liability. Every transaction, every wallet balance, every financial movement is exposed for bad actors to analyze. SilentSwap elegantly solves this problem.”
Privacy as the Next Competitive Advantage
Across the blockchain sector, privacy is increasingly viewed as a requirement for bringing institutions into the fold. Ernst & Young’s blockchain division notes that data privacy, scalability, and compute capacity continue to stand out as the main challenges for enterprise use.
An EY-Parthenon survey published in January 2025 reports that 60 percent of institutional investors now place more than 1 percent of their portfolios into digital assets and related products. Even with that shift, concerns about how data is protected and how regulations will evolve remain central to their decision making.
As digital wallets move toward an expected 25 trillion dollars in annual transaction value by 2027, institutions are setting clearer expectations. They want the efficiency of blockchain systems without exposing sensitive financial information. SilentSwap, along with other teams working on privacy solutions, is involved in efforts to create confidentiality features that meet institutional standards.
Privacy as the Foundation of the Next Web3 Wave
The debate over privacy in blockchain is no longer theoretical. The challenge now is building systems that scale securely under real-world conditions, balancing transparency with protection. SilentSwap represents this shift toward responsible transparency, proving that compliance and confidentiality can coexist and that privacy will define the next decade of digital finance.
