COTI has unveiled plans for 2026 after what it describes as a strong showing this year. It plans to double down on providing privacy solutions while getting involved with the RWA sector. Right now, participants can earn millions in $COTI rewards during in its points-based program. Following a breakout year where COTI emerged as a leading privacy infrastructure in Web3, it has released its 2026 roadmap, sharing plans to be at the forefront of what a16z calls crypto’s most important moat: privacy. The fast, lightweight and cost-effective privacy solution definitely benefited greatly from privacy emerging as the defining trend of the year. This year, COTI got busy, launching its V2 mainnet and enterprise-grade Garbled Circuits framework. Institutional momentum also skyrocketed through active collaborations with governments and international forums. Meanwhile, ecosystem growth exploded with 80+ new projects and major partnerships, fueling rapidly rising DeFi activity while liquidity and usage surged, hitting $250M+ in daily perps volume on PriveX. Now, as the year runs to an end, the privacy layer innovator has unveiled its ambitious strategic vision for 2026, especially as experts predict that privacy could become an even bigger deal next year. COTI’s plans for 2026 For 2026, COTI’s flagship initiative is multichain Privacy-on-Demand, extending its much-touted Garbled Circuits infrastructure to other leading blockchains. It will work on giving dApps and developers the ability to build using COTI’s privacy stack across multiple blockchains. Privacy is not the only item on COTI’s agenda though. It also plans to bring the first privacy-RWAs on-chain. If all goes to plan, it could become the gateway for TradFi to access compliance-grade privacy in a tokenized asset market that is projected to reach up to $30 trillion. COTI also has strategic partnerships lined up to build on its private DeFi and DEX market share, with its sights set on becoming a top 3 project in private DeFi by volume. Additionally, its Nodes V2 system will be scaled to thousands of community-operated nodes, rolling out an enhanced treasury and governance framework and new community rewards initiatives with the ultimate goal of taking privacy mainstream. COTI launches point campaign to reward users In related news, COTI formally launched the COTI Earn loyalty platform, offering a total of 12.5 million COTI tokens as rewards in the first season of the campaign, which was dubbed “Season 001: Genesis”. COTI Earn is not to be confused with the treasury airdrop program COTI ran before it deployed mainnet. According to Shahaf Bar-Geffen, COTI’s CEO, it is “designed to recognize real users and real contributions to the ecosystem.” “As on-chain activity increases, loyalty platforms must evolve to be transparent, fair, and rewarding by design. Platforms running on vanity metrics simply won’t stand the test of time,” Bar-Geffen added. For the first season, users were encouraged to earn Token Points (TPs) via various interactions, including trading, holding assets, and referring friends, with TPs being created on-chain daily and sent directly to users’ wallets. Rewards are also earned by trading on PriveX or Carbon DeFi as well as joining social channels, and completing quizzes, and they can be exchanged for $COTI at the end of the campaign. The first season ran for six weeks before it ended on November 11, 2025 and the second season started immediately. It was dubbed “Uprising” and launched with announcements confirming the transition and new features. The second season has 15 million $COTI in rewards, and recent updates regarding it include bonus increases (e.g., 30% extra for holding Season 1 TPs) and high APYs (over 50–90% equivalent for certain holdings).
