On October 19, 2026 we participated in Octant Epoch 13, introducing the Gordian Stack to the Ethereum community for support in a funding round focused on privacy for both the Ethereum community and the wider internet.
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Full Meeting:
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Three-Minute Intro:
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Also see the transcript for the full content of the meeting.
Key Quotes
What BC Is
“So, what you just saw isn’t an app, so we’re not like Session or a service. It’s a layer underneath apps. How keys are held, how data is shared, how wallets talk with each other. Most of our customers, you might say, are wallet developers that build on these tools, and their users thus get the privacy without ever knowing our name.”
Where Privacy Stands
“I’m sad to say that we’ve really lost ground.”
“At any point Google can just say, oh, we don’t like you. You did something wrong over here. So we’re going to just shut down your whole system. And there actually is no recourse.”
The Importance of Interop
“What we’re really talking about is how do we interact, whether or not it’s financially or via communications or coordinate in adversarial environments.”
“We have to work together. We have to solve problems together. … If we’re all doing it independently and not talking to each other about what is the best libraries and what is the best approach and how do we support those libraries and such, then we all can lose.”
Open Development
“I kind of consider open source to be the absolute minimum … and it’s not good enough just to have your team do it. You need to have incentives and reasons why other people will want to look at it as well.”
Recovery Codes
“I bet every single one has a slightly different recovery code format. They don’t have to be, it’s just a secret. Why can’t we have a common format for the secret and have some sort of really easy UX to be able to register.”
Links
Epoch 13:
Gordian Stack: