The Hashing it Out team speaks with Ameen Soleimani, co-author of the Privacy Pools paper – Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium. Ameen, along with Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Jacob Illum (Chainalysis), Matthias Nadler (University of Basel), and Fabian Schär (Center for Innovative Finance, University of Basel; University of Basel – Economics Department) describe a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol.