Powering Privacy with Predicate

Permissionless blockchains are transparent by nature, but global adoption requires privacy over one’s financial history given its sensitive nature — for both retail and institutional users. Thankfully, blockchain technology enables a new era for private transactions. When coupled with a financial settlement system like Ethereum, privacy becomes globally accessible. Decentralized background checks , however, are critical for privacy, not only for legal and regulatory purposes, but more importantly to ensure that privacy technology does not bolster activities detrimental to society. While seemingly contradictory, privacy must be balanced with background checks .

The average user who seeks privacy should not be restricted, only the malicious actor looking to use privacy for nefarious purposes. For INTMAX, this means building and enabling novel mechanisms for asset check that paradoxically do not undermine the open and permissionless nature of the blockchain itself. It begins by fostering a system for healthy liquidity without changing the user’s fundamental experience.

The Predicate Network enables developers to integrate transaction prerequisites into their application through a modular approach. It is designed to be transparent, verifiable, and open. Any entity — whether an individual, organization, or DAO — can create, manage, and own their prerequisites through Predicate. INTMAX is working with Predicate to build and enforce policies at the smart contact level for the bridge from Ethereum to the INTMAX L2. The Predicate Network is used to set pre-transaction rules that prevent assets originating from high-risk addresses such as those associated with sanctions, child sexual abuse, human trafficking, terrorist financing, and onchain exploits.

To identify these addresses, the Predicate Network leverages offchain data providers like TRM. While offchain risk score providers function as centralized entities, the Predicate Network itself is trust-minimized by leveraging a distributed operator network, powered by EigenLayer. INTMAX retains control over the policy and the ability to change data sources as needed via the Predicate Network. The operators reference the policy and issue signatures for each transaction. Signature issuance is deterministic, and any bridging attempt without a valid Predicate signature is automatically rejected.

Making Privacy Accessible to All

Together with Predicate, we enable community-aligned liquidity, all without limiting our users. In this journey, decentralization is crucial because it enables the most open and trust-minimized system for building a thriving privacy-first economy. This lays the foundation for an ethical ecosystem that scales Ethereum.

About INTMAX

INTMAX develops cutting-edge Layer 2 solutions for Ethereum, focusing on scalability, privacy, and accessibility. Through innovative stateless architecture and advanced cryptographic techniques, INTMAX enables efficient, private transactions while maintaining the security and decentralization of the Ethereum network.

About Predicate

Predicate is a network for simplifying transaction prerequisites. Through Predicate, users, developers, and communities define rules for on-chain interactions, integrating expressive pre-transaction logic into decentralized applications. These rules, like legos, can be stacked to form policies, which are enforced by the Predicate Network. For more information, visit: predicate.io.