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What is the Coti protocol?

Nahid
Published: May 29, 2025
(Updated: May 31, 2025)
2 min read
What is the Coti protocol?

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The COTI protocol is a privacy-first Layer 2 designed to bring confidential computation to Ethereum. It’s not another rollup. It’s not a ZK playground. It’s a full execution environment for encrypted smart contracts, built using garbled circuits, a cryptographic method that keeps logic and data hidden while still verifiable.

Here’s what the protocol actually does:

  1. It lets developers build apps that process sensitive logic without revealing inputs, outputs, or business rules
    2.
    It allows users to pay for private computation in COTI tokens
    3.
    It offers a staking treasury where users can earn rewards while securing the protocol
    4.
    It introduces a modular privacy layer that connects to Ethereum’s existing ecosystem without needing to replace it

Think of the COTI protocol as a plugin layer for privacy. You don’t have to move off Ethereum or give up composability. You just opt into encrypted computation when you need it, financial contracts, AI models, private voting, or anything else that shouldn’t be public by default.

COTI was originally a Layer 1 (Trustchain), but that’s legacy now. With COTI V2, the protocol is fully Ethereum-native, designed to be EVM-compatible, wallet-friendly, and easy to integrate into existing workflows. The protocol is governed and maintained by the COTI Foundation, with staking-driven economics, programmable token issuance, and a roadmap focused on developer tooling, SDKs, and long-term decentralization.

It’s not built for hype. It’s built for builders who care about privacy, and users who don’t want to sacrifice usability to get it.

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Nahid

Nahid

Based in Bangladesh but far from boxed in, Nahid has been deep in the crypto trenches for over four years. While most around him were still figuring out Web2, he was already writing about Web3, decentralized protocols, and Layer 2s. At CotiNews, Nahid translates bleeding-edge blockchain innovation into stories anyone can understand — proving every day that geography doesn’t define genius.

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