Privacy is essential to scaling tokenized assets and DeFi, Aztec co-founder says

Privacy is a prerequisite for expanding real-world asset tokenization and decentralized finance, according to Aztec co-founder Zach Williamson. Protecting sensitive information while allowing assets and services to work together could remove a constraint on the market’s growth, he argued. In an interview shared on Bankless’s X account, Williamson said privacy would gain adoption by enabling financial products that cannot operate without it. Users generally favor lower costs and a better experience over privacy alone, making it a requirement for new applications rather than a feature consumers necessarily pay for.