COTI launches Privacy-on-Demand and Privacy Portal on Avalanche

Blockchain privacy just got a new address. COTI officially launched its Privacy-on-Demand solution and accompanying Privacy Portal on the Avalanche network on September 16, 2026, enabling fully encrypted token transactions without users ever leaving the Avalanche ecosystem.

The timing is deliberate. COTI’s Chief Marketing Officer is presenting the solution live at Avalanche Summit 2026, held September 16-17 in New York City, giving the launch immediate visibility in front of one of the ecosystem’s largest annual gatherings.

What the technology actually does

Under the hood, COTI uses Garbled Circuits-based Multi-Party Computation, a cryptographic method that allows calculations to run on encrypted data without ever exposing the underlying values. Inputs are processed off the host chain, and results return as ciphertext, which the user’s client then decrypts locally. The blockchain itself never sees the raw numbers.

COTI claims its Garbled Circuits implementation is 3,000 times faster and 250 times lighter than comparable alternatives.

The Privacy Portal itself is built for people who are not cryptographers. One-click shield and unshield operations let users privately hold, send, and receive tokens through a straightforward interface. Supported assets at launch include AVAX and USDC, covering the two most transacted tokens in the Avalanche ecosystem.

Fees for privacy transactions are payable in AVAX, which keeps the experience native to the chain while also creating incremental utility for the COTI token across multiple networks.

Building toward a multi-chain privacy layer

This Avalanche rollout is not COTI’s first step. The project launched its initial Privacy Portal on COTI’s own mainnet in May and June of 2026, establishing the technical baseline before extending to external chains. The COTI V2 mainnet itself came online in 2025, providing the infrastructure that made these privacy features possible.

The Avalanche launch represents the first cross-chain extension of that infrastructure, and the project’s stated direction is explicitly multi-chain. The approach is designed to plug into existing Ethereum Virtual Machine stacks without requiring developers or enterprises to overhaul their current setups.

Some features within the portal documentation still reference the Fuji testnet, Avalanche’s public test environment, suggesting continued active development alongside the live deployment.

Why this matters beyond the privacy niche

The project frames its solution around selective disclosure, meaning users can share transaction data with auditors, regulators, or counterparties when required, while keeping it encrypted by default.

The use cases the company emphasizes reflect that positioning: confidential payments, DeFi activity, payroll processing, and real-world asset transactions. Payroll is a particularly grounded example. A company running employee compensation on-chain today broadcasts every salary figure publicly, which creates obvious problems. A privacy layer that encrypts those figures while still settling on a public blockchain solves a real operational headache.