No transparent chain can deliver real privacy. We had to build an end-to-end stack purpose-built for it. Why not fork Ethereum or build on what already exists? Because ZK doesn't work with an architecture designed for public execution. It requires an entirely different foundation, one that traditional blockchains aren't built to support. It starts with the virtual machine. The EVM was designed for public, on-chain execution, while snarkVM compiles programs into zkSNARK circuits that execute off-chain and verifies the proofs on-chain. They’re fundamentally different computational models. Leo exists because we needed a language where privacy is enforced at the type system level. When you declare private data, the compiler guarantees it stays private through execution. Solidity and Rust can’t do that because they were never built with privacy as a core concept.