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Arcium: Parallelized Confidential Computing Network - Yannik Schrade

Episode Summary

We were joined by Yannik Schrade, co-founder & CEO of Arcium, to discuss the importance of privacy and how Arcium leverages MPC to achieve confidential, yet compliant, decentralised computing.

Episode Notes

In this day and age, privacy and confidentiality are more important than ever. Advancements in the cryptographic research of zero knowledge proofs (ZKPs), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and multi-party computation (MPC) paved the way for computational integrity and confidential computing. While FHE allows for computation to be performed on encrypted data without the need for prior decryption, it is MPC that enables compliance with regulations (e.g. AML). Arcium aims to build a global super computer for parallelised confidential computing, powered by custom MXEs (multi-party computation execution environments).

Topics covered in this episode:

• Yannik’s background
• Confidentiality & decentralised compliance
• Confidential computing
• TEEs (trusted execution environments) & side-channel attacks
• ZKP vs. MPC vs. FHE
• Arcium’s global super computer architecture
• How Arcium differentiates itself from other privacy protocols
• Use cases
• Censorship risks
• Ecosystem development

Episode links:

• Yannik Schrade on Twitter
• Arcium on Twitter

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This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Felix Lutsch.