encrypted compute is the edge most teams are sleeping on fhEVM v0.5 dropped with real gas efficiency gains, Polygon is moving on private DeFi, and EigenLayer restaking adds a new security dimension the stack is coming together for confidential smart contracts that actually ship via @zama_fhe what changes when the model never sees raw data and the contract never exposes state? finance runs analytics on encrypted ledgers, healthcare trains on protected datasets, and KYC happens without the honeypots the unit economics of data flip toward trust and compliance attn: solidity devs and investor network mainnet upgrade hits Nov 5, AI inference toolkit lands Nov 15, and the FHE creators program is paying out Yaps while $ZAMA aligns compute, governance and staking yield the next narrative is #PrivacyFirst and it compiles now