# Background Public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum were architected on a premise of **Radical Transparency**. Every transaction, wallet balance, and smart contract interaction is broadcast to a global ledger. While this solves the problem of trust, it introduces a critical flaw for real-world adoption: **Exposure**. In traditional finance and enterprise operations, confidentiality is not a crime; it is a requirement. * **The Exposure Tax:** On public chains, trading strategies are reverse-engineered, and large orders are front-run by predatory MEV bots. * **The Compliance Barrier:** Corporations cannot put payroll, supply chain logic, or user Personally Identifiable Information on a chain where it is permanently visible to the public. **FOGEVM resolves this paradox.** We decouple **Execution** from **Verification**. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.fogevm.vip/introduction/background.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.