Privacy highlights #6

Hey FHEllow FHE enjoyeeers, here are my favourite highights from last week 🫡 

But before that, Kyle from FHEnix and I will be hosting a twitter spaces to talk about their $15m series A, upcoming plans, how one can get involved and more.

Join us 👇️ 

Partnerships 

• Privasea <> Nesa

  • “Nesa will be providing private and secure AI inference for Privasea’s AI+DePIN network as it attests human liveness and facilitates critical data across the web.”

• Mind Network <> OORT

  • “OORT and Mind Network aims to further scale consensus security amongst AI applications between our communities moving forward!”

• Aztec <> vlayer

  • “We’re teaming up with Aztec Labs to develop the first @NoirLang library, enabling trustless verification of historical data on Ethereum and EVM-compatible blockchains”

• Aztec <> Manas

Releases 

• Fhenix announces $15m Series A and releases initial testnet

• Zama adds new bounties to the Zama Bounty Programme

• Mina Berkeley uprade goes live

• Zama will have a coFHE shop at EthCC

• Stashh, an omnichain social-first hub for NFT creators and collector goes live; and also announces $3.3m fundraise from Animoca Ventures, 6th Man Ventures and more

• Monero Garden goes live

Media 

• Cointelegraph twitter spaces about FHE

• FHE Onchain’s episode with Nillion Network

• The importance of privacy, a panel from DeCCDay at Consensus

• Secret Network and Unstoppable Domains, upcoming twitter spaces

Writeups

• The state of FHE, a thread

• ArkStream Capital: Why we invest in the FHE track, an article

• 5 ways that verifiable FHE will transform Web3 AI, a thread

• Mind Network’s monthly recap

• Luka Tchang, who worked on the Nomad bridge and later built Nocturne (focused on Privacy), will be leaving crypto, a thread

• ZK mentioned in the recitals for European Identity - what does it mean? A thread by Hyle

Upcoming events 

• 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 🇧🇪 

• FHE: Past, Present, and Future, June 13th 🇫🇷 

• ZK Hack Montreal, 9-11th August 🇨🇦 

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