Today, Brevis and BNB Chain have both made an update to further expand their collaboration aimed at creating a next-generation privacy infrastructure in Web3. The project focuses on the adoption of a privacy framework that is configurable, privacy-compliant and can be powered by current zero-knowledge technology.
🚀 Brevis partners with @BNBCHAIN to redefine privacy infrastructure
We’re building a general privacy framework that goes beyond first-generation transaction hiding.
Our first implementation is an Intelligent Privacy Pool launching soon in partnership with @0xbowio 🧵 pic.twitter.com/4Xg1qB3jI7
— Brevis (@brevis_zk) January 15, 2026
At the heart of this work is a broader vision: privacy is a flexible infrastructure component and not a single-purpose tool. The inaugural practical application of this vision will be introduced into the blockchain ecosystem BNB Chain during the first quarter of 2026 and represents a huge step forward towards the use of privacy-saving applications.
Limitations of first-generation crypto privacy tools
The initial crypto privacy protocols mainly focused on hiding the information about transactions (e.g. address, recipient and value). As simple payment privacy, these systems were limited by both the technical capacity of early zero-knowledge proofs, and the capacity to verify only a limited complexity of information without knowledge of sensitive information.
Consequently, previous privacy tools were problematic in terms of access control, compliance, and authentication or history of user behavior. There was very little flexibility in deciding who could access privacy settings or under what circumstances confidential information could be disclosed.
A three-dimensional view of privacy by Brevis
The new Brevis framework and BNB Chain can view privacy in three fundamental dimensions.
- The first is concerned with what needs protection and this is not necessarily limited to transactions, but to user-defined attributes, confidential data or even one’s own computation logic.
- The second is how and in what situations protected information can be disclosed. This includes designs that allow selective disclosure, administrative unmasking, or enforcement intervention without weakening the system’s overall privacy protections.
- The third dimension specifies the people who have access to privacy mechanisms. Instead of full access or full denial, access can be monitored with cryptographic proofs that verify eligibility without identity disclosure.
Unlocking new Web3 use cases
This broad definition of privacy opens up possibilities for practices that previously could not be put into practice.
Customers were allowed to validate social or financial site identifications without displaying wallet traces. The market operators’ own logic could be made public without the market operators disclosing the integrity of the algorithms. An AI developer could use his or her own data sets, but only release verifiable results.
Access controls combined with selective disclosure and verifiable computation make privacy a trusted resource, not an adoption barrier.
Intelligent privacy pool is launched BNB Necklace by Brevis
The Intelligent Privacy Pool designed by Brevis and BNB Chain under the partnership with 0xbow will be the first attempt to showcase this framework. The swimming pool is built on the basis of BNB Chain, which allows users to deposit assets and withdraw them to new addresses without creating an on-chain connection between transactions.
The pool is unique because of its eligibility mechanism. The deposits must be under an approved association that is incorporated privately. Users can also bypass eligibility by proving sources of compliant on-chain funds, leveraging Brevis’ zero-knowledge data infrastructure, or cryptographically proving ownership of a verified account at an exchange using privacy-preserving verification tools.
Balance between privacy and enforcement
Controlled intervention mechanisms are also included in the system. If a deposit is later found to be related to a legitimate or malicious action, it can be removed from the association’s collection, blocking subsequent personal withdrawals. This would create liability in such a way that the privacy of legitimate users is not compromised.
With attribute-based evidence, unlinkable transactions and the choice of enforcement paths, Brevis’ Intelligent Privacy Pool shows how privacy and regulation can coexist on the same platform.