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Jun 2
MACI made one thing clear:
private inputs and shared outcomes shouldn't depend on one operator.
Voting was the starting point.
The Interfold generalizes that pattern into a network for confidential coordination.
May 28
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😃)
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The Interfold retweeted
Jun 12
✨@theInterfold lets competing companies — or complete strangers — collaborate on computations together, where each party keeps their inputs secret, but everyone can verify the result is correct.
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The Interfold retweeted
Jun 11
If you're currently (or thinking about) using @AragonProject and are interesting in private, receipt-free voting. I want to talk with you! DMs open here and on TG.
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Jun 11
Multiplayer Privacy space recording is now available below.
Thanks to our guests @ystrickler, @lunardragon420 & @auryn_macmillan for the interesting chat on the need and possibilities brought by private shared internets & encrypted coordination - and everyone else for tuning in! 💜
x.com/i/spaces/1AKEmmDqXqZKL
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Jun 11
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…
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Jun 11
Ethereum should not require users to expose their intent before execution.
The Interfold is joining the Encrypt the Mempool Coalition to support private, credibly neutral transaction infrastructure.
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Jun 11
Encrypted mempools are part of a broader shift: privacy moving from the edges of apps into the infrastructure that coordinates execution.
More here: encryptedmempool.org/
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Jun 10
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
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Jun 10
Jun 10
The X Space just got daker:
Amir (@lunardragon420) from @DarkFiSquad is joining the conversation.
We'll be talking dark forests, dark finance, and privacy as the basis for collective agency, not just protection.
Tomorrow, 2PM GMT.
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Jun 10
The X Space just got daker:
Amir (@lunardragon420) from @DarkFiSquad is joining the conversation.
We'll be talking dark forests, dark finance, and privacy as the basis for collective agency, not just protection.
Tomorrow, 2PM GMT.
Jun 10
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
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Jun 9
tl;dr
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The Interfold retweeted
Jun 9
read the ciphernode primer, read this and then register intent to be part of the genesis set.
if you are interested, that is.
the genesis set onboarding is soon.
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Jun 9
Zino nailed this quick snapshot of the Interfold vision. ⚡️
what if privacy was more than a SHIELD?
what if it became the foundation for trust, collaboration, and coordination on the internet?
yes, everyone talks about privacy as protection
but only a few talk about privacy as a coordination tool
and one of the few ones, is @theInterfold 🎥👇
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Jun 8
Confidential coordination is the next infrastructure layer. 👾
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The Interfold retweeted
Jun 7
Jun 7
The goal:
- NO raw data collected.
- NO exposure.
- Yet still verifiable outcomes from multiple private inputs.
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