Naval has once again achieved a thousand fold return miracle. In 2015, he invested in ZECC, the parent company of Zcash, at a valuation of $6 million, with Naval investing $715000 According to ZEC's current 10 billion FDV calculation, the investment return is 1660 times So there is a reason why he has been nursing ZEC. But this is just the tip of the iceberg for his investment in the empire. As a top angel investor in Silicon Valley, Naval's 266 investment portfolios include unicorns such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, and others. The latest signal is that Naval is once again betting on the privacy track. Just now, Privacy Identity Protocol @ SelfProtocol completed a $9 million seed round financing. The lineup of investment institutions can be described as luxurious: Spearhead VC (co founded by Naval in 2017) SoftBank Greenfield Capital (the largest cryptocurrency fund in Europe, with investments in 1inch, Celo, and Near) Verda Ventures The list of individual investors is also star studded: Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal Founder of EigenLayer, Sreeram Kannan Across founder Hart Lambur Why does Naval value Self? Technically speaking, unlike Worldcoin's hardware dependency route, Self has chosen the most pragmatic path - based on passport NFC technology, without the need for biometric hardware Supports passports from 174+countries and biometric identification cards from 35 countries Privacy protection achieved through ZK certification, utilizing existing government identity infrastructure More importantly, Self has been adopted by the head protocol. Google Cloud deep integration Aave's anti witch token distribution Compliance verification of Velodrome Covering multiple use cases from DeFi to AI The long-term logic is that as regulation tightens and privacy awareness awakens, the demand for identity verification will explode AI agents require a trusted identity layer for autonomous transactions Self is at the starting line of this billion dollar race track Naval's investment philosophy has always been 'investing in infrastructure for the next 10 years' From investing in Zcash to now betting on Self, privacy technology has always been its core theme. Finally, how to ambush Self? Self has launched a point reward system, where users can earn points by verifying their identity and using cooperative platform services. Download the app to experience accumulating points.