Privacy highlights #4

Welcome to last week’s Privacy highlights 🫡 

From now on, this will go out on Monday at:
3pm BST = 10am EST = 7am PST

Partnerships 

• Houdini Swap <> Telos

• Houdini Swap <> Aeternity Foundation

• Secret Network <> Euclid protocol

  • This will allow Secret DeFi dApps to tap into liquidity beyond the borders of our Secret Network, without requiring cross-chain bridging

• Privasea <> Accseal

  • “Together, we'll explore new frontiers in the ZK+FHE domain, driving the future of crypto solutions forward”

• Mind Network <> Zama, partnership expansion

  • This collaboration integrates Zama's cutting-edge Concrete ML solution for confidential ML training and inference into Mind Network's FHE validation network, setting new standards for decentralized AI validation

• Mind Network <> Inferix GPU

  • The main focus of the partnership will be on the FHE SDK service integration, each node equipped with GPUs on Inferix Network will gain the capability to achieve consensus under fully homomorphic encryption.

  • This ensures that when AI computational tasks arise, both the requests and data are encrypted, enabling the fair allocation of tasks to the appropriate nodes

• Mind Network <> Chainlink Labs

  • By Integrating CCIP, Mind Network pioneers cross-chain transactions powered by FHE, bringing quantum resistance to Web3 and ushering in a new era of cross-chain security for institutions

• Mind Network <> 0G labs

  • This two-way collaboration adds FHE to 0G's data storage and also provides Mind Network with secure, cold storage for our FHE validation results

• RISC Zero <> Optimism

  • With R0's Zeth, you can provably build and derive Optimism blocks from Ethereum mainnet

Releases 

• 22 ideas to build in the privacy space

• Cysic, ZK Proof Generation Layer, announces a $12m Pre-A fundraising round led by Hashkey Capital and OKX Ventures

  • The fund will be used to expedite the generation of ZK proofs in a faster, more cost-efficient, user-friendly and decentralized manner

• Secret Network v1.13 is now live on mainnet

  • This upgrade added DCAP attestation, which enables node runners to use newer and more efficient hardware

  • This will lead to improved performance and scalability, and potentially reduced node running costs

• Winning submissions for Fhenix at ZK Hack Krakow

Writeups

• The latest updates from Secret Network, a thread

• Top developments in the ZK space, a thread

• Vitalik’s article: How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?

Upcoming events 

• Real World Cryptography Paris meetups (12th June and onwards)

• Shibtoshi_SG as co-host and speaker for #DeCCDay at Consensus

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

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

Hope that was helpful!
If you need to reach me, find me on twitter or ping me on telegram (@mitko_wtf)

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