Starknet Integrates EY Nightfall to Offer Institutional Privacy on Ethereum

StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol into Starknet, enabling institutions to run private payments and decentralized finance activity on public Ethereum-aligned rails. The move is aimed at banks and corporates that need confidentiality without giving up auditability.

Nightfall is an open-source zero-knowledge privacy layer that lets transactions be verified without revealing underlying data. The integration is designed to support private B2B and cross-border payments, confidential treasury management and 24/7 tokenized asset transfers onchain, while allowing institutions to access Ethereum DeFi for lending, swaps and yield strategies with transactions private by default but supporting selective disclosure, auditability and KYC.

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