Your Data Isn't Private. You Just Haven't Put It On-Chain Yet

There's a dangerous assumption most developers bring into Compact: "It's a privacy-first chain. My data is private unless I explicitly expose it." This is backwards. And it's where the serious mistakes happen. The actual model Compact doesn't give you automatic privacy. It gives you a hard boundary between two worlds, and a compiler that enforces it. World Where Who sees it Public On-chain, every network node Everyone Private Your local machine Only you The boundary between them is explicit. You