Privacy Pools, an open-source research project and forked successor of coin mixer Tornado Cash, was deployed on the testnet of layer 2 scaling system Optimism this past weekend.
Like Tornado Cash, Privacy Pools allows users to make anonymous transactions, but the defining difference between the two privacy tools stems from how Privacy Pools uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove that funds in the anonymous transactions are not connected to criminal activity.
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