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In 15mn, 2pm GMT. Coordinating in the Dark: DarkFi Dark Forest OS • Amir Taaki (@lunardragon420) , @DarkFiSquad • Yancey Strickler (@ystrickler), DFOS/ @metalabel_ • Auryn Macmillan (@auryn_macmillan), Interfold x.com/i/spaces/1mxPaaDQPlVKN…

Tomorrow, join us for a conversation on the rise of the "dark forest" internet - and what becomes possible when privacy is treated not as a defensive mechanism, but as a foundation for collective agency. Featuring: • Yancey Strickler (@ystrickler), Dark Forest OS • Auryn Macmillan (@auryn_macmillan), the Interfold 📅 Thursday, June 11 🕑 2:00 PM GMT Save the date! 🌐🌳🌐 x.com/i/spaces/1mxPaaDQPlVKN

1/ World, meet Cohort I of the Ethereum Security Subsidy Program. Out of 100 applicants, here are the 30 projects selected for our first of many cohorts. Proudly securing @ethereum mainnet together with @ethereumfndn, @nethermind and @chainlinklabs.

More people should know about the Interfold. It's basically what I've been yelling at people to build with the MACI ideas ( ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-… ) for almost a decade, and now it exists, in a generalized form. The idea is: a privacy protocol optimized for things like voting (and other use cases eg. secret-ballot auctions). The mechanism generates a threshold encryption key, and people send in their votes onchain, using a ZKP to prove eligibility. An arbitrary computation on the votes gets run inside FHE, and then threshold-decrypted. From what I can tell (the docs are good docs.theinterfold.com/CRISP/… ), it gets pretty optimal security guarantees: * Voter anonymity can be made unconditional if eligibility is proven with ZK-SNARKs * Censorship resistance is guaranteed by ethereum (votes can be posted directly onchain, and there's a proof that all posted votes are taking into account) * The correctness of the outputted result can be ensured via ZK over FHE * Liveness and coercion resistance depend on M-of-N honesty; unavoidable given present-day technology The main limitation is that today "ZK over FHE" is only properly available for additive vote tallying, as it's too expensive for computations that involve multiplication or other more complicated manipulation at the moment. There's work in progress on slashing-based / optimistic computation for such situations. (And of course ideally in the long term we'd figure out obfuscation so you can get rid of the M-of-N committees😃)

The Interfold Launch Primer starts today. Over the next several weeks, we'll explain the system, the network, ciphernodes, and the path to participation. First: How Interfold works, from private inputs to collective outcomes.

More people should know about the Interfold. It's basically what I've been yelling at people to build with the MACI ideas ( ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-… ) for almost a decade, and now it exists, in a generalized form. The idea is: a privacy protocol optimized for things like voting (and other use cases eg. secret-ballot auctions). The mechanism generates a threshold encryption key, and people send in their votes onchain, using a ZKP to prove eligibility. An arbitrary computation on the votes gets run inside FHE, and then threshold-decrypted. From what I can tell (the docs are good docs.theinterfold.com/CRISP/… ), it gets pretty optimal security guarantees: * Voter anonymity can be made unconditional if eligibility is proven with ZK-SNARKs * Censorship resistance is guaranteed by ethereum (votes can be posted directly onchain, and there's a proof that all posted votes are taking into account) * The correctness of the outputted result can be ensured via ZK over FHE * Liveness and coercion resistance depend on M-of-N honesty; unavoidable given present-day technology The main limitation is that today "ZK over FHE" is only properly available for additive vote tallying, as it's too expensive for computations that involve multiplication or other more complicated manipulation at the moment. There's work in progress on slashing-based / optimistic computation for such situations. (And of course ideally in the long term we'd figure out obfuscation so you can get rid of the M-of-N committees😃)

The crypto industry is on a collision course with quantum computing. We just published a report on where it stands, what it does to crypto, and what the industry is and isn't doing. Introducing 👇 "The State of Quantum: What Crypto Can't Afford to Ignore" A thank you to our co-collaborators, @NEARProtocol @near_intents @quipnetwork @cadillion @midnightfdn @SebastienGllmt @KeystoneWallet @gnosisguild @auryn_macmillan @terminal3io @SwaynesWord @tx_track Link here 👇 report.quantus.com/

More people should know about the Interfold. It's basically what I've been yelling at people to build with the MACI ideas ( ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-… ) for almost a decade, and now it exists, in a generalized form. The idea is: a privacy protocol optimized for things like voting (and other use cases eg. secret-ballot auctions). The mechanism generates a threshold encryption key, and people send in their votes onchain, using a ZKP to prove eligibility. An arbitrary computation on the votes gets run inside FHE, and then threshold-decrypted. From what I can tell (the docs are good docs.theinterfold.com/CRISP/… ), it gets pretty optimal security guarantees: * Voter anonymity can be made unconditional if eligibility is proven with ZK-SNARKs * Censorship resistance is guaranteed by ethereum (votes can be posted directly onchain, and there's a proof that all posted votes are taking into account) * The correctness of the outputted result can be ensured via ZK over FHE * Liveness and coercion resistance depend on M-of-N honesty; unavoidable given present-day technology The main limitation is that today "ZK over FHE" is only properly available for additive vote tallying, as it's too expensive for computations that involve multiplication or other more complicated manipulation at the moment. There's work in progress on slashing-based / optimistic computation for such situations. (And of course ideally in the long term we'd figure out obfuscation so you can get rid of the M-of-N committees😃)