After the 2008 financial crisis, blockchain was born with a simple idea:
Put control back in your hands.
No banks. No intermediaries. No permission required.
Just you, your keys, and the power to transact freely.
We called it a revolution. But we left a deep flaw inside.
Every Move You Make, I'll Be Watching You
Right now, every onchain transaction you make is a permanent public record.
Your salary? Public.
Your trading strategy? Public.
That donation to a controversial cause? Public.
The memecoin you bought this morning? Public.
Over $4 trillion flows through public blockchains annually. Every single dollar leaves a permanent trail.
MEV bots front-run your trades because they see your orders coming even before they are executed.
Competitors clone your winning strategies within minutes.
Hackers build target lists of wealthy wallets ($2.2 billion stolen in 2024 alone)
This isn't financial freedom. This is surveillance capitalism with better marketing.
Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
― Edward Snowden
Ask yourself: Did we escape the banks only to build something worse?
The Fake Solutions
"But privacy tools exist!" you say.
Do they really?
Tornado Cash? Banned. Use it and you're on a government list.
Monero? Can't buy it anywhere normal. Try using it for everyday stuff.
Privacy wallets? So complicated you need a computer science degree. And they don't work with normal apps. Check the usage stats of railgun on how many people use it.
Here's reality: 99.7% of crypto users never use privacy tools. Not because they don't want to but because every option forces you to choose:
Privacy OR everything you actually want to do. Pick one.
Want privacy? Give up Uniswap, Aave, and every app you use.
Want to hide? Give up good prices and trading volume.
Want to stay anonymous? That's a seperate headache, relearn everything about how crypto works.
If staying private means changing your whole life, it's not real privacy.
Time's Running Out
This isn't "we're still early" anymore.
- BlackRock is here. $2.3 trillion watching every transaction.
- Big banks are settling trades onchain. Wall Street arrived.
- Europe's new rules require them to track every wallet.
Every big institution coming onchain brings their surveillance system with them.
Blockchain was supposed to free us from banks. Instead, it's becoming the biggest financial surveillance system ever built.
Once this becomes normal, once every company and government expects to see everything, there's no going back.
Privacy needs to win now, or it never will.
What Will Actually Work
Platus is privacy that doesn't make you choose.
Same blockchains. Same apps. Same everything.
Just private.
We use stealth addresses that let apps remember you without knowing who you are.
Everything's protected by zero-knowledge proofs.
One account. Works everywhere. Zero trade-offs.
If we get this right, if we make privacy normal, easy, and everywhere, we don't just fix privacy. We save crypto.
Privacy shouldn't be hard. It should be invisible.
And that's what we're building.