At Devconnect in Argentina last year, Danny Ryan commented that nobody in tradfi cared about decentralization until it was reframed as the elimination of counterparty risk.

In a recently completed research project for the EF, we propose and develop a similar shift with respect to privacy. This is an intuitive way to reach audiences that might be more receptive to privacy as it relates to another right they already understand and value.

We’ll walk through the three independent constitutional grounds our analysis rests on. Each supports the conclusion that privacy technology is infrastructure for expressive freedom, and that Ethereum should be recognized and protected for the expression it carries, like the internet.