TL;DR (Quick Highlights)

• COTI partners with Houdini Swap to enable confidential, compliant cross-chain swaps directly into COTI.
• Users can move assets like BTC, SOL, and ZEC into COTI without exposing their wallet history.
• No wallet linking, no address exposure - privacy stays intact while regulatory auditability remains possible.
• Houdini's non-custodial architecture and dual-exchange system protect identities and break transaction traceability.
• Builders gain access to Houdini APIs, boosting the COTI ecosystem with private DeFi and payments tooling.
• HoudiniPay now lets businesses send/receive confidential crypto payments, including in COTI.
• This partnership supports COTI's mission: programmable privacy for Web3, payments, and enterprise adoption.

Privacy has become a core requirement in Web3 - not a luxury. Users and institutions want the freedom to transact without exposing their complete financial history, while still operating within legal and regulated frameworks. That balance has been notoriously hard to achieve.

COTI has positioned itself as the programmable privacy layer for the blockchain world - a fast, compliant, and developer-friendly system built using high-performance Garbled Circuits. Houdini Swap, on the other hand, is a leader in privacy-focused token swapping and routing across thousands of assets. By bringing these two strengths together, a brand-new privacy pipeline is now available:

• Private
• Compliant
• Simple
• Cross-chain
• Built for all users

This is not just another integration - it's a critical piece of infrastructure enabling the future of private trading, payments, and DeFi liquidity around COTI.

Understanding Houdini Swap: Privacy Without the Complexity

Houdini Swap allows users to convert assets like native BTC, ETH, SOL, or ZEC into COTI without exposing sensitive wallet history. It uses a combination of centralized exchange liquidity and unique routing logic - but without requiring the user to trust a custodian.

There are no wallet links, no screenshot uploads, no identity exposure to random counterparties. The user keeps ownership and privacy. What makes Houdini different is how the transaction flow is split:

1. Exchange #1 receives the initial funds
2. A randomized Layer-1 blockchain acts as a privacy shield
3. Exchange #2 sends the final assets to the recipient wallet

Because every part sees only half the transaction, the full path cannot be traced. Each transaction uses:

• One-time wallet addresses
• Randomized routing networks
• Deep liquidity pools

Even advanced blockchain tracking tools cannot map sender → receiver through Houdini's process. At the same time, because regulated exchanges conduct risk-based KYT (Know-Your-Transaction) checks where appropriate, auditing remains possible through selective disclosure - ensuring legitimate actors can comply with law while still preserving privacy.

That security profile makes Houdini Swap particularly attractive for institutions in markets like:

• The United States
• The European Union
• Singapore and similar regulated hubs

And now - that privacy meets COTI.

How COTI Integrates This Privacy Rail into Its Bitcoin-Fast, Enterprise-Focused Network

The role of COTI in Web3 is larger than a token or a single payment layer. It is building an entire infrastructure around:

• Confidential commerce
• Regulated finance
• Private AI computation
• Identity-protected applications

Until now, one major piece was missing - a way for users to enter and move within the ecosystem privately without using mixers or centralized gateways that expose identities.

With Houdini Swap integration:

• A user can hold BTC privately
• Swap into COTI privately
• Pay via COTI privately
• Access DeFi privately
• Prove compliance on-demand

It is a full life-cycle of compliant confidentiality - something the industry has struggled to deliver. This is particularly important for enterprises - where privacy breaches can destroy relationships, reveal supply chain connections, or expose competitive strategy.

A Closer Look: Why Houdini Swap's Architecture Complements COTI's Vision

Houdini Swap and COTI align on a core belief: financial privacy should be accessible, compliant, and user-friendly. Houdini's transaction architecture hides wallet history by separating the transaction flow across two different centralized exchange partners, while routing the swap through a randomly selected Layer-1 chain. This breaks any visible link between sender and receiver and prevents outside parties from inferring personal wallet details. Even the exchanges involved only see one half of the transaction, ensuring they can't reconstruct a user's financial footprint.

This approach is not just private - it is structured for regulation-friendly oversight. Selective disclosure allows investigations when required, protecting legitimate users while discouraging abuse. That combination of confidentiality and auditability makes Houdini Swap compatible with banking standards in the US, EU, and other major regulatory jurisdictions.

This is where it fits perfectly with COTI. COTI's programmable privacy infrastructure is built for enterprises, institutions, and future large-scale payment systems that require both confidentiality and compliance. When paired together, Houdini becomes the privacy rails for cross-chain movement, while COTI becomes the privacy engine powering the next generation of decentralized finance, payments, and identity-based use cases. It's not a speculative integration - it's a strategic step toward real-world adoption.

Benefits for COTI Users - What Changes Immediately

The integration is not hypothetical - it's live.

Users can now:

• Swap assets directly into COTI with privacy preserved
• Use HoudiniPay to send/receive confidential payments
• Access major liquidity pools through private channels

This creates an easier and safer path for new users to enter the COTI ecosystem - especially those coming from Bitcoin or other non-EVM assets.

Business use cases are even bigger:

• Payroll in COTI without revealing employee wallet balances
• Merchant transactions where competitor analysis becomes impossible
• Private client billing and vendor settlements
• Cross-chain asset routing for OTC desks

Privacy becomes a feature, not a barrier.

Benefits for Builders - A Big Signal That an Ecosystem Is Forming

Developers in the COTI ecosystem now gain:

• Access to Houdini private swap APIs
• Ability to integrate private swap flows into wallets and dApps
• Tools for compliant DeFi with jurisdiction-ready design
• Opportunity to participate in future Houdini incentive programs

Challenge solved:

• Users don't need to leave the ecosystem to move liquidity.
• Builders don't need to reinvent compliance tooling.
• Enterprises don't need to choose between privacy and regulation.

This is the kind of foundation that encourages product launches, not whitepapers.

HoudiniPay - A Sneak Peek at Where This Is Going

HoudiniPay represents the next evolution of how crypto payments should feel: simple, private, and chain-agnostic. By generating a single payment link, anyone can send funds using their preferred chain and token, while the recipient receives COTI - privately - without revealing their wallet history or the origin of funds. This removes traditional frictions like chain selection, token matching, or exposing sensitive details every time a transaction occurs.

For merchants, creators, service providers, and everyday crypto users, this bridges a major gap in digital transactions: privacy that doesn't come with complexity. It hints at a future where confidential payments are not a niche feature but a default setting, with COTI acting as the settlement layer behind seamless private commerce. HoudiniPay also signals a growing emphasis on real-world usability in the COTI ecosystem - not just privacy as a feature, but privacy as everyday convenience.

With both Houdini Swap and HoudiniPay now connected to COTI's network, the stage is set for a broader ecosystem that blends compliant privacy, multi-chain liquidity access, and fast settlement into a single, intuitive user experience. And this is only the beginning.

Why This Partnership Is Perfectly Timed

COTI's privacy layer is entering its commercialization phase - shifting from infrastructure building to ecosystem growth. Momentum matters here. Houdini's platform is already proving adoption metrics:

•  $2.27 Billion total swap volume
• Over 834,000 privacy-enhanced swaps completed
• 0 dollars lost - strong reliability track record
• Over 15% of $LOCK supply permanently burned

Those numbers reflect strong user confidence and continued growth.

Pair that with:

• COTI's Garbled Circuits leadership
• Expanding enterprise integrations
• Ongoing DeFi tooling releases
• The upcoming ecosystem of private smart-contract apps

And we now have two ecosystems scaling together instead of separately.

What COTI Holders Should Look At Longer-Term

For COTI holders, the partnership with Houdini Swap is much more than just another integration - it's a strategic step toward positioning COTI at the center of compliant financial privacy. As privacy becomes a non-negotiable requirement for institutions and everyday users, demand will rise for solutions that can guarantee confidentiality without breaking regulatory rules. Houdini Swap brings exactly that kind of compliant privacy rail, and pairing it with COTI's programmable privacy layer creates a future where secure, private transactions can happen on any chain, for any user, without adding friction.

This also aligns with the market shift toward PayFi - the merging of payments and decentralized finance - where privacy enhances not only personal transactions but enterprise-grade payment systems. With more ecosystems integrating Houdini's flows and with COTI expanding the reach of Garbled Circuits technology, the value of COTI's infrastructure could strengthen as more users rely on privacy-preserving apps built across its network. The long-term takeaway is simple: this partnership helps broaden utility, strengthens relevance in regulated environments, and reinforces COTI's mission to provide real-world privacy - not theory.

Final Thoughts

This partnership is not about speculation - it is about infrastructure. Private rails, compliant finance, and programmable privacy are the foundation for the next evolution of blockchain adoption. Houdini Swap gives COTI something the industry views as both valuable and rare:

• Privacy without isolation
• Compliance without surveillance
• Access without compromise

With HoudiniPay live and private swaps available today, users across chains can now join COTI's ecosystem with confidence that their financial data stays theirs. This is a long-term unlock for innovation - especially in payments and enterprise-grade DeFi - and an important milestone signaling that COTI's ecosystem is now expanding outward, welcoming new liquidity and real-world adoption.