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Founder (@zama_fhe), deeptech investor (https://t.co/3Bm60ghFkR) & competitive biohacker
Joined June 2009
Chat Control is the most insane surveillance law ever proposed. In effect, you will either have to accept being under total surveillance or not be allowed to use whatsapp, emails, reddit etc. Europe is being such a hypocrite here: on one hand they force companies to comply with.
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We just announced @zama_fhe ‘s $73m Series A, led by @multicoincap and @protocollabs . Why did we raise so much, and what will we do with it? A 🧵#fhe #blockchain #ai.
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Congrats to @ShytoshiKusama , @kaaldhairya and the whole Shib community on launching $TREAT! This is officially one of the first FHE token to go into Mainnet! A 🧵 /1.
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This is an incredible achievement, and perhaps the first example of a memecoin that built actual utility in the real world! Not only is Shib building their own network state with FHE, they are also helping big countries go onchain! Go #SHIB 🚀🚀🚀.
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@kaaldhairya @ShytoshiKusama @zama_fhe Cant wait for people to see what FHE on #shibarium will enable! 🚀.
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Thank you for all your great work @ShytoshiKusama ! Looking forward to working together on making ShibOS the operating system for all network states 💫.
IMPORTANT: ShibOS; Farewell and Holá! The Next Chapter for Shy (REPOST). When I joined Shib with a few thousand dollars I had no idea that my influence would help bring forth the world's greatest meme and community. After chatting with Ryoshi, I had but one thing to focus
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FHE rollups are very cheap now. We can do ~20 confidential ERC20 transfers / second on a single GPU ($1.5/h). That amounts to only $0.00002 / transfer. Next objective: 100 tps for the same price!.
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I wasn’t going to comment on Sunscreen’s allegations initially, but some people I respect and admire have unfortunately rushed to conclusions without asking me about it first. So here is what actually happened and why we decided to take action. I find it extremely disheartening.
If @zama_fhe and @randhindi believe in their work, we invite them to compete with @sunscreentech in a way that moves the industry forward rather than engage in secret campaigns of intimidation, IP trolling, and speech suppression. Thread 🧵👇. On December 3, following a 6+ month.
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This is huge, we can now predict encrypted DNA ancestry in about ~5min using FHE. No privacy issue, no data breaches. Who wants to build a decentralized, private 23andMe?.
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This is happening today! Dont miss out, @ShytoshiKusama will walk us through the #SHIB vision and what the future of memcoins will be.
Don’t miss it! Tomorrow, @ShytoshiKusama & @randhindi will discuss how FHE and Treat are shaping the Shiba Network State. Hear about Shib community’s latest advancements, the Treat token, and FHE’s role in the Shib ecosystem. Join us live on @X!.🔔▶️
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A few weeks ago, @a16zcrypto published the Nakamoto Challenge, a list of the hardest problems to solve in crypto. One of them, “compliant programmable privacy”, caught our attention at Zama, so we decided to take a shot at solving it using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). 🧵
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Doing a space tomorrow with @ShytoshiKusama to talk about FHE, $TREAT and the Shiba Network State! If you are into FHE, memecoins or network states, this should be relevant.
Don’t miss it! Tomorrow, @ShytoshiKusama & @randhindi will discuss how FHE and Treat are shaping the Shiba Network State. Hear about Shib community’s latest advancements, the Treat token, and FHE’s role in the Shib ecosystem. Join us live on @X!.🔔▶️
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Very proud to announce @zama_fhe’s partnershib with @Shibtoken ! Together, we will bring privacy to millions of blockchain users, making @ShytoshiKusama’s ambitious vision of a Shib Network State a reality!
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🚀🚀🚀.
Finally, a new use case for $TREAT. FHE LONGEVITY RESEARCH WITH $Ogai @ogaicoin. The ecosystem is just getting started!.
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Exactly one year ago, we presented our vision for private smart contracts using homomorphic encryption. Today, I'm proud to announce that WE BUILT IT. We will be releasing the whitepaper and alpha version of our fhEVM at #EthCC this summer, so stay tuned!🚀.
⚠️🟨 Zama is going big during @EthCC . 1. Launching the alpha version of our homomorphic smart contract protocol.2. @mortendahlcs takes over the EthCC stage (Tue 18).3. An exclusive party in an art gallery (Wed 19).4. The first ever fhEVM hackathon (Fri-Sat 21-22). 🧵⤵️ Read more
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Some thoughts on FHE performance scaling. 3 metrics that matter:.- latency (how long it takes to do a single operation).- throughput (how many operations can you do per second).- cost-performance (how many operations can you do per $). For a proper benchmark, you should ensure:.-.
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Today marks a major milestone in FHE: the release of the first production-ready, stable version of TFHE-rs. This is what underpins all of our products at @zama_fhe . Ah, and for those who want to understand how it works, there is a 100 page whitepaper that comes with it,.
🚀 TFHE-rs v1.0 is here. This is the first stable release of Zama’s pure Rust implementation of TFHE, bringing a solid CPU backend, refined cryptographic parameters, and much more. Let’s dive in. 🧵👇
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Many people try to push a narrative that it’s FHE against TEE, MPC or ZK. This is wrong for 2 reasons:. 1. You usually need a combination of these technologies to build robust protocols. Eg the fhEVM uses FHE for secure computation, MPC for key management, ZK for integrity of.
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Important to note that this only applies to hiding the identity of the people making the transaction. It does NOT apply to hiding the content of the transaction. Bearish for mixers, bullish for FHE!.
Les mixeurs crypto et tout ce qui permet une « opacification des transactions » vont être interdits en France. Si vous en utilisez, ce sera de la présomption de blanchiment pour votre poire. Ces deux amendements ont été adoptés.
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People often ask what is the difference between FHE and Tornado-like privacy. A good analogy is that Tornado is like Tor: the content is public, but your identity is hidden. In other words, the data is public, but the metadata is private. FHE on the other hand is more like.
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The first State of FHE report is out! Let me know what you think in the comments!.
The first edition of The State of FHE Report is out! Key use cases, market size, recent funding rounds, and groundbreaking initiatives. What was once a cryptographers’ dream is now ready for prime time.
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After months of efforts, our team at @zama_fhe has finally succeeded in proving an entire TFHE bootstrap using SNARKs! This is a huge result, as it shows for the first time that ZK-FHE is actually possible!.
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The french are really good at building web3 products. An investment thesis that would have worked great was simply “invest in french web3 entrepreneurs”.
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Good thing FHE is quantum resistant then.
guys. If quantum computing breaks encryption . I guarantee your magical internet money would be the least of your worries.
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Many companies give grants to researchers building new cryptographic primitives, but not enough to those trying to prove whether they are actually secure. To bridge that gap, @zama_fhe will be distributing grants to researchers working on the security of FHE, MPC, ZK, TEE or any.
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Biggest lesson everyone is learning in crypto today: people dont buy infra, they buy use cases. When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, he didn’t say “it’s a mobile operating system”. He said “it’s a phone, a music player and a web browser combined into one”.
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We just released a key new feature. in TFHE-rs: ZK proofs for encryption correctness (aka ZKPoK):
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Not a silver bullet, but if the balances and signer addresses in Safe multisigs were encrypted with FHE, it would be much harder for hackers to know which ones and who to target. Public visibility of assets is a bug, not a feature.
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Vitalik's post is a good overview of schemes like BGV and BFV, which enable additions and multiplications over encrypted data. While they can be useful in many applications, they aren't suitable for general purpose blockchains. Here's why.
Since a lot of people are interested in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) recently, re-upping my article from 2020 that goes into how the math works in depth:.
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The real narratives of crypto in 2025:.- Bitcoin.- RWA.- UX matters more than perfection.
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Everyone knows my passion for longevity and biohacking. But I hate having to give my data to random companies that frankly probably have very basic cybersecurity measures in place. If you feel the same way, this quarter's @zama_fhe is for you! It's about computing biological age.
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Our vision at @zama_fhe is simple: make privacy guaranteed at the protocol level. HTTPS added encryption in transit, #HTTPZ will add encryption during computation.
Working towards httpz. A future where we have end-to-end encryption by default in everything, and for everyone, thanks to Fully Homomorphic Encryption. #FHE #Cryptography #Privacy
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Congrats, big milestone! 💪🚀🔥.
FHE is better served hot ☕️!. After 1.5 years of work, our FHE Coprocessor is out on Ethereum testnet. FHE Coprocessor > L1/L2/Lx because it lives natively on any chain/rollup of your choice and imbues it with magical fully homomorphic encryption powers. Now any smart contract.
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Which crypto do you think will still be there in 20 years? Think about what you would put in a wallet to give your kids on their 18th birthday. For me, it’s BTC, and that’s despite the fact that most of my own portfolio is ETH.
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Nice piece by @inconetwork and @circle on confidential ERC20 tokens using FHE. I love this example because it shows how simple FHE is:.1. send regular tokens to an FHE wrapper, and receive encrypted ERC20 tokens in exchange.2. send, swap, borrow privately.
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FHE is coming to AI! The first and third place winners of the @huggingface x @MistralAI hackathon used @zama_fhe‘s Concrete ML in their app 😍.
50 hackers at the LLM Hack in Paris organised by @join_ef, @MistralAI and @huggingface . Strong teams building innovative LLMs projects . You can check them below 1/n 🧵
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Two big things we announced at ETHcc this week:. - you can now use FHE on Ethereum and other non-FHE chains: . - we are launching a threshold MPC chain to securely generate FHE keys and decrypt FHE ciphertexts: Both are going to.
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Great stuff from @encifherio! They are using @zama_fhe’s fhEVM coprocessor to enable confidential swaps on top of existing, non-confidential AMMs. Trading confidentially without moving liquidity is a big deal!.
Let's bring Programmable Privacy to existing DeFi apps!. Privacy has been a debated topic for a long time; people have criticised it, rugged it down, or even sometimes appreciated it. Check out our ETH Research on why we think this time it's different 👇
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Going to Tel-Aviv soon. Who should I meet in blockchain and/or privacy there?.
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About this: im very serious. If someone wants to do this, Im willing to invest and help make it happen. We can onboard tens of millions of people to web3 with it!.
This is huge, we can now predict encrypted DNA ancestry in about ~5min using FHE. No privacy issue, no data breaches. Who wants to build a decentralized, private 23andMe?.
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Like many, I initially thought of Shiba as a memecoin. It wasn't until I read their manifesto and got deeper into their ecosystem that I realized what it really was: a Network State. /2.
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I'm really excited about what's to come, and about what will be a long, productive partnership between Zama and Shib! /end . Anouncement:
$TREAT is officially LIVE!. Buy it now on our CEX partners! . Stay SAFE! 🛡️.Beware of scam links and tokens mimic or replicate $TREAT. Double-check with and our official brand channels for verification.
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Zama is taking over a coffee shop at @EthCC this year! Come say hi, hang out, hack on FHE and of course drink coffee :)
If you missed Zama's Vernissage during the @EthCCweek last year, make sure you don't miss our CoFHE Shop event this July! All info: 🟨☕️
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We are hiring one or more Entrepreneur in Residence to build and launch decentralized FHE apps. You will have access to all the company resources (devs, marketing, funding, etc) to achieve your goal: find a killer use case for FHE onchain! . More info here:.
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FHE is becoming a reality! Here is an example of how to apply a filter to an encrypted image:
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Tomorrow is a big day! We are finally releasing our #fhEVM whitepaper! Come join us at our meetup tomorrow to learn more about it: @mortendahlcs @zama_fhe @fhe_org.
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We should run every state onchain, wether they are nations or networks. But in order for your identity, money, voting preferences, etc to remain confidential, you will need FHE! . If you are excited about building this "State OS", join our hackathon in Argentina!.
The team has landed in Argentina for @crecimientoar Aleph de Verano pop up city—Join us tonight for an amazing evening to meet the community, learn about the FHE State OS, and share drinks 🧃💛.Register here:
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Folks, if you are gonna advertize that your tech is "10x" faster than @zama_fhe, could you at least do it for real? This means 1. publishing the code, 2. using 128 bits of security and 3. running on the same hardware. This is our most recent timings for reference:.
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And this is just the start. Shy, Kaal and the incredible Shiba engineers are working on an whole suite of products that will take this to the next level. /6.
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Memecoins aren't dumb, scams and rugs are dumb. We saw exactly the same thing in 2021 with NFTs, in 2018 with ICOs, in 2014 with bitcoin forks. Some projects are legitimate, some are scams. Just crypto history repeating itself, every 4 years or so :).
I am pro crypto but anti this cycle. Memecoins are dumb.
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I just published my angel investing performance. I might do a fund next. #blockchain #web3 #vc #angel #deeptech.
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We @zama_fhe just released a new homomorphic encryption library! TFHE-rs is a pure Rust implementation of TFHE for boolean and integers. It has a Rust, C and WASM API, and is 2x faster than the state of the art.
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Congrats to my amazing cofounder @pascal_paillier on being a 2025 IACR fellow! Well deserved ❤️
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I just published my deeptech and crypto investment thesis for 2023! Let me know what you think :). #deeptech #blockchain #vc.
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I followed an anti-blueprint protocol for 2 months, to see how unhealthy it would make me. Here are the results on my biomarkers. For context, I rank 40th on the Rejuvenation Olympics of @bryan_johnson, with an average aging pace of 0.75. I'm generally healthy, but nothing over.
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From decentralized identity to DeFi, tokens to governance, FHE enables Shiba to build an entire Network State OS onchain, while guaranteeing the privacy of its Shibizens. /5
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We just had another fantastic week at @zama_fhe . Cant wait to show you all what’s been cooking. FHE is gonna 🚀.
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This is the stupidest thing Europe could do. You cant pretend you care about privacy and ban it at the same time.
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For years, blockchains have faced a dilemma: Public blockchains offer verifiability but no confidentiality, while private blockchains offer confidentiality without verifiability. @zama_fhe’s fhEVM eliminates this tradeoff using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). /2.
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Network States are decentralized communities leveraging blockchain to bring people together around a common belief. In the case of Shiba, that belief is that everyone deserves to have fun. /3.
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My plan if we bought 23andMe:. 1. delete all the data. DNA is useless for most people who don’t have a genetic disease. 2. relaunch it as an longevity focused company using epigenetic testing and AI to help people live to 150. 3. put the data encrypted onchain, and allow.
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Today, there are millions of Shibizens engaging with the various Shib products on a daily basis. It is by far one of the most successful ecosystem in crypto, and FHE is now a part of it! /4.
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I decided recently to force myself to finish every book I start, no matter how boring or difficult it is. Im a slow reader with lots of distractions around me, so this hasn’t been easy, but it’s really worth it! I learn things even on topics I think I know in depth. Current
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For anyone interested in understanding our business model, you can read this blog post:
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Probably one of the most comprehensive and easy to understand video on FHE! In French only though.
[Je viens de sortir le plus gros projet de ma chaîne]. Pendant qu’une grande partie du CT porte son attention sur les memecoins, ou s’est rendormi 2 jours après l’annonce des ETFs Ethereum. Il y a une technologie en train d'émerger, dont personne ne parle, qui pourrait
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One of the strongest zk team, and my only zkevm investment!.
We have powered up and entered Super Saiyan mode⚡. Kakarot Labs has officially been incorporated and closed a pre-seed round with top-tier investors. Let’s unpack our vision, current standing, and the exciting future ahead. 🧵👇
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Everyone trying to code with AI is learning how difficult engineering management is! If you don't know how to explain your product and cut it into clear objectives, no amount of LLM magic will produce the desired outcome ;).
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Encrypting data and putting it onchain means you have to be VERY confident the encryption scheme used wont be broken, as having the ciphertexts publicly accessible means there would be no remediation. Stick to peer reviewed schemes that people have attempted to break (and failed).
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1,000 FHE transactions per second would be a 50x increase from where we are now (20 tps). Looking at the rate of FHE performance improvement at @zama_fhe , we should reach it sometime in 2026.
Would you rather have:.
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We call this vision #HTTPZ: just like HTTPS enabled privacy online, HTTPZ will enable privacy onchain! You can learn more and start building by reading the full announcement here: /end.
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Today, we are releasing the biggest update to Concrete, @zama_fhe‘s homomorphic encryption framework. It includes a high-level API that developers can use without knowledge of cryptography, as well as support for large precision homomorphic integers.
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3 things I learned after having invested in ~100 companies:.- the only things that matter at Seed stage are the founders and the market.- I'm a much better deeptech investor than consumer investor.- my best deals are obvious in hindsight but contrarian when I made them.
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I’m organizing a dinner soon in Paris on the future of computing (think quantum, photonics, risc-v, asics, . ). Anyone you think should be there?.
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This is absolutely amazing! When we released the #fhEVM a few months ago, we thought it would be years before FHE rollups became a reality. But the @FhenixIO team did it in just a few months 😍😍😍. Great work @GuyZys and @GuyItzh 🚀🚀🚀.
1/3 #ETH folks, we're so excited to announce the release of @FhenixIO's Fully Homomorphic Encryption (#FHE) rollups whitepaper.
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One aspect of Founder mode could be to "never delegate understanding" (quote by Charles Eames). My interpretation is that you can delegate all operational tasks, but only after you understood them in detail. This often means doing the job yourself first (coding something,.
Founder Mode:
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When it comes to user and developer experience, nothing changes: everything is just solidity code, running on an L1, using traditional wallets. For example, this is how simple an encrypted ERC20 token looks like with FHE. /7
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You have to love how Europe likes to kill itself each time. US opens up crypto, EU shuts it down. EU politicians clearly hate innovation.
Looks like crypto transfers are becoming severely restricted in Europe. 1. @coinbase blocking transfers to recipients other than yourself, and if it is a self-custodial wallet, you have to sign a message to prove your ownership
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We have a few open positions at @zama_fhe:.- FHE researcher.- Blockchain marketing lead.- Threshold KMS engineer.- Blockchain engineer.- FPGA engineer. Full list:
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We always hear that people should protect their privacy, but I actually believe it’s developers who should protect it for their users. Because when a developer builds privacy by design into their app, it’s potentially millions of people who won’t have to worry about it! #privacy.
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We are giving grants to builders who want to create something with FHE. If you have a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it!.
We want to support teams building FHE apps that solve real-world privacy challenges, so we're launching the Zama Grant Program. Oh, and also the Zama Bounty Program Season 5. Read more here ⬇️.
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The fhEVM enables 3 core features: .🔒 Encrypted transactions and state: Even validators can’t see the data. 🔗 Composability: Smart contracts work on encrypted data seamlessly. 🛡️ Programmable privacy: Access control is managed onchain. /3.
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We deployed a first coprocessor on Sepolia, with Ethereum mainnet and many more chains coming soon. You can vote for the ones we should prioritize on our discord: /9.
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The solution is homomorphic encryption! Send encrypted queries, receive encrypted response. Same service for you, but OpenAI no longer sees the data.
Italy banned ChatGPT b/c it is unclear what OpenAI does with all the data it collects - that you enter! No one knows. The EU regulator believes you should have the right to know what happens to your data & the right to later remove it, if you want to. You cannot, with ChatGPT.
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My big takeaway from this ETHcc is that we are definitely not in a bull market. This is good, we can keep building without too much distraction!.
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