Privacy Pools ≠ Confidential Data Pools

Both preserve privacy, but in very different ways. 🧵

Privacy Pools (by @0xbowio) offer private withdrawals using ZKPs and association sets.

They unlink deposits from withdrawals without mixers, letting users protect privacy and meet compliance requirements.

0xbow is developing Association Sets and Privacy technology on Ethereum and related chains.

A protocol for Encrypted Execution Environments

Privacy Pools (by @0xbowio) offer private withdrawals using ZKPs and association sets.

They unlink deposits from withdrawals without mixers, letting users protect privacy and meet compliance requirements.

https://privacypools.com

Enclave's Confidential Data Pools (CDPs) do something different:

🔹 Multiple participants can pool encrypted inputs to a joint compute process. 
🔹 No raw data is revealed. No trusted intermediary is required. 
🔹 Only the verified output is ever decrypted and shared.

If you're building encrypted programs, CDPs are a powerful new pattern.

Private inputs, public proof, no data custody.

Learn more about how Enclave enables CDPs: https://blog.enclave.gg/confidential-data-pools-with-enclave/

Privacy Pools and CDPs serve different purposes, and can even complement each other.

Together, they point to a broader shift: Privacy as infrastructure for both individual protection and multi-agent collaboration.

Where Privacy Pools protect txn privacy, CDPs are for collaborative contexts:

🏥 Cross-institution research (w/o sharing datasets) 
💸 Multiparty risk modeling (w/o exposing portfolios) 
🧠 AI training on private data (w/o data leakage) 
🌍 Encrypted public goods (w/o custody)