Privacy Highlights #11

Welcome back to another week of Privacy highlights

Here’s what we had last week

Partnerships 

• Fhenix <> ZK Pass

  • Both projects will collaborate to utilize ZK’s proofing strengths with FHE computation to provide private and secure onchain identity and reputation verification

• Mind Network <> Pendle

  • By staking PT on MindNetwork and leveraging FHE for secure consensus, this collaboration promises new incentives and utility opportunities for PT holders on Pendle

• Kakarot <> Pyth

  • Kakarot developers, take advantage of the low-latency price feeds powered by Pyth and start building high-performance dApps that leverage real-time, high-frequency data

Releases 

• Rand Hindi (Zama) - we can now predict encrypted DNA ancestry in about ~5min using FHE

• 20+ Blockchain Projects Form DeCC Alliance to Promote Data Protection and Confidential Computing

• ETHGlobal Brussels, Fhenix winners

• ETHGlobal Brussels, Inco winners

Media 

• Iggy Azzelea’s “Can someone please explain FHE to me, it sounds kinky”

• Top 5 moments from interview with Gurgen Arakelov, CEO of Fairmath

• FHE and confidential computing will unlock $1T in crypto capital, article by Cointelegraph

• Secret Path demo on Superchain Demo Day (31min38s into the vid)

Writeups

• The 1st FHE Summit concluded, thread by Remi

• Secret Network, weekly roundup thread 

• State of the Mina ecosystem, an article

• Latest developments in the ZK ecosystem, a thread

• TLDR on: ZK, MPC, FHE, TEE, a thread

• “What are ZKPs?” thread by Hyle

• The state of crypto infra, thread by Wei Dai (1kx)

Upcoming events 

• ZK Hack, Montreal (9-11th September), Canada 🇨🇦 

• Privacy Reunion 4 (1st August), Argentina 🇦🇷 

And that was it. If you need me, here’s my tg https://t.me/mitko_wtf