Private voting and protection from MEV and censorship are keystones of an on-chain Society. 

We have discussed the idea of integrating Shielded Trading with key developers and architects from the Metis community, and we want to get closer to the community to make Metis safer and more market-efficient for trading, prevent front-running, sandwich attacks, and censorship, and leave to the Metis community the decision of how to distribute benign types of MEV like arbitrage and liquidations.

Shielded Gaming

Shutter's commit-reveal mechanism can significantly enhance gaming fairness and security, especially in strategic and competitive settings.

DAOplomacy: DAOplomacy is a decentralized game inspired by the classic "Diplomacy." Multiple DAOs compete to claim territories, executing secret moves simultaneously each round. Like MEV on the blockchain, the game faces the challenge of prematurely exposing a DAO's moves, which could lead to unfair strategizing.

To address this issue, DAOplomacy incorporates Shutter's technology, which uses threshold cryptography to prevent front running on Ethereum. This ensures that game strategies remain encrypted and concealed until all moves are executed simultaneously, maintaining game integrity by preserving secrecy and strategic surprise.

Other conceptual uses in gaming:

Matchmaking and Resource Allocation: Shutter could prevent unfair advantages in matchmaking and in-game resource acquisition by concealing player actions until all data is simultaneously revealed, ensuring equal opportunities for all players.
Game Mechanics Security: Shutter's technology could benefit concepts such as protecting spawn points, reducing latency manipulation, and securing server queue positions. It would encrypt data to eliminate unfair preemptive actions and maintain competitive integrity across various game formats.

In regards to RWAs, we’d love to elaborate on how the encrypted mempool can provide a sound and safe, regulatory compliant trading environment which is (more so than for DEFI), highly necessary for RWAs, which need to exist in more regulatory compliant environment.

The encrypted mempool adds base layer neutrality and ensures that the sequencer's role remains impartial, making it impossible for end users or regulators to accuse the sequencer or other involved parties of market manipulation. The encryption of the mempool obscures transaction details, preventing any party from manipulating or censoring transactions based on their content. Ensuring that the transaction order is free from interference aligns with regulatory goals of maintaining fair and transparent market practices, potentially fostering a more cooperative relationship between blockchain networks and regulatory bodies. This minimizes regulatory threats; for example, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation MICA could treat front running and other types of MEV as “market abuse” (https://twitter.com/paddi_hansen/status/1795084797238256110)