COTI: ZK Foundation Takes Over Direction in Foundation Handover - 21 Sep 2026

The Coti Foundation is shifting from pure development to a blended, adoption-driven approach built around purpose-built privacy applications. Current management steps down as ZK Foundation, led by Robbie Vander, takes over direction of COTI. The handover pairs new leadership with a strategic pivot toward spendable private payments and a COTI 2.0 campaign.The change puts execution under a new team whose stated focus is private payments that remain usable in everyday transactions rather than development for its own sake. Token holders face a practical question: whether COTI's utility thesis holds as the roadmap is rewritten around privacy applications and the COTI 2.0 campaign. Direction, priorities, and delivery timelines now depend on ZK Foundation's decisions, so near-term updates from the new management carry more weight than prior foundation announcements.COTI is excited to announce its new chapter.Today, Coti Foundation is shifting gears from pure development to a blended approach, to further the adoption of COTI and its privacy ecosystem. The foundation is now critically tasked with creating purpose-built applications that…