Privacy highlights #5

Gmgm, lots of partnerships, some drama, and some cool writeps.

Here are this week’s highlights 👇️ 

Partnerships 

• Hyle <> Marlin

  • “This collaboration equips developers with the tools required to generate and verify ZK-proofs more efficiently and securely, all while ensuring cost-effectiveness.”

• Secret Network <> Aurora

  • “Through this partnership, Secret will provide Aurora with confidential computing tooling, documentation, and support. This will unlock brand new capabilities for applications in the Aurora ecosystem, and potentially the NEAR ecosystem too!”

• Secret Network <> Unstoppable Domains

  • You can now get a .secret domain

• Secret Network <> Reclaim protocol

  • The two have joined hands to launch a grants program to fund novel ideas on top of Secret Network using Reclaim Protocol.

• Secret Network <> Swisstronik

  • Swisstronik will license Secret Network’s TEE technology for use in their own blockchain, enabling decentralized confidential computing #DeCC.
    In return, Swisstronik will provide Secret with its TEE-compatible EVM technology, enabling EVM contracts to run on Secret.

  • Additionally, Swisstronik will be airdropping $1m worth of its $SWTR token to the Secret community.
    $700k of this will go to $SCRT holders, and $300k will be used on development grants for implementation of Swisstronik decentralized identity applications on Secret.

• Mind Network <> Allora Network

  • Mind Network will provide FHE, further securing Allora Network’s consensus mechanism

  • Allora Network will bring AI innovation to Mind Network’s Smart Staking services

Releases 

• Aztec Network announces the winners of Privacy-focused DEX build series

• Privacy landscape ecosystem

• Cake Wallet introduces Biitcoin Silent Payments

• ZkSync’s has filed trademark applications to claim ZK as exclusive intellectual property

Media 

• Zero Knowledge podcast with Muthu and Carmit from Ligerio Inc

  • They share their history working on MPC, ZK, and specifically MPC-in-the-head, how MPC & ZK are interrelated plus the Ligero project + the new Ligetron system.

Writeups

• The Future Prospects of Fully Homomorphic Encryption: A Deeper Dive by FHE Future

• ZKNoid’s selection of favourite projects built using Mina Navigators, a thread

• The benefits of no-KYC Bitcoin, article by Freedom Tech

• HFHE: Subtraction in hypergraph space, an article by Octra

• Alpha you migh’ve missed from DeCCday

• ZK Hack Krakow recap, by ZK Hack

• ZK Mesh recap with lots of resources

Upcoming events 

• Kakarot zkEVM team is hosting a side event at EthCC

• Cryptography meetup in Paris, 12th June

• PSE Hacker House, July 1-7th in Brussels 🇧🇪 

• Lambda Hack Week, 6th-9th July in Brussels 🇧🇪 

• Encryption day, July 9th in Brussels 🇧🇪 

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About me

I’m Mitko - in web3 since 2021, retired entrepreneur & ex content creator.

Now doing BD in web3 which includes things like: GTM, DeFi integrations, chain expansion strategy, media buying, KOL relations & lots more.

I can’t code but writing this newsletter is my way of contributing to the adoption of FHE. If you or your business announces something exciting in regards to FHE/privacy, send it to me on twitter @mitko_wtf