2025 has been an eventful year for COTI, but the development team is already looking forward to the new year, with some crucial updates outlined. An important one is the goal to take privacy mainstream.

COTI Seeks to Take Privacy Mainstream in 2026

Privacy layer innovator COTI announced on Monday, December 22nd that it has launched its ambitious strategic vision for 2026. In a press release shared with Cryptowisser, the team said it seeks to become the undisputed industry leader in Programmable Privacy.

 COTI’s vision comes as privacy emerged as the defining trend in 2025 and is set to be the industry-leading trend of 2026. The team pointed out that a16z predicted that privacy will be the most important moat in crypto in 2026.

The vision for 2026 will be building on the achievements recorded in 2025. This year, COTI delivered on key milestones, including the launch of its V2 mainnet and Garbled Circuits (GC), its high-performance, enterprise-grade infrastructure.

In addition to that, institutional adoption surged thanks to active partnerships with governments and international forums, including the Bank of Israel and European Central Bank, enterprises, and forums like the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Tokenized Asset Coalition (TAC). 

Furthermore, the COTI ecosystem growth exploded with 80+ new projects and major partnerships, fueling rapidly rising DeFi activity. Liquidity and usage surged, hitting $250M+ in daily perps volume on PriveX. 

The team pointed out that for next year, COTI will focus on its multichain Privacy-on-Demand, extending its superior Garbled Circuits infrastructure to other leading blockchains. 

This update will give dApps and developers the ability to build using COTI’s privacy stack across multiple blockchains. In addition to that, COTI will launch private Real-World Assets (RWAs) through strategic infrastructure partnerships and bring the first privacy-RWAs on-chain. 

COTI aims to become one of the top 3 projects in Private DeFi by volume and will achieve this thanks to additional strategic partnerships. The project also plans to roll out its Nodes V2 system to scale to thousands of community-operated nodes, rolling out an enhanced Treasury and governance framework, and new community rewards initiatives. In 2026, COTI is set to take privacy mainstream.

This vision comes two months after COTI announced its mainnet upgrade that introduced Hydrogen, the first hard fork on the COTI Network. In August, COTI officially joined the Tokenized Asset Coalition to help drive $1 trillion in on-chain assets.