At Stellar House Miami, a panel featuring leaders from Boundless and Wormhole discussed how privacy and openness can coexist and reinforce each other in blockchain. The conversation highlighted a privacy-centered tech stack combining Stellar for settlement, Boundless for computation, and Wormhole for interoperability to serve institutional finance.
During Stellar House Miami, an SDF pop-up event, panelists Shiv Shankar (CEO of Boundless) and Robinson Burkey (co-founder of Wormhole) explored whether privacy and openness can coexist in blockchain. They concluded that blockchain's inherent openness actually enables privacy through configurability and data control. The panel outlined a practical tech stack where Stellar handles settlement, Boundless provides zero-knowledge computation, and Wormhole enables cross-chain interoperability in a privacy-preserving manner. Key insights included that institutions prioritize privacy as the main blocker for adoption, that banks are motivated by cost reduction rather than ideology, and that compliance and profitability are critical to driving institutional adoption of blockchain technology.
