Devcon VI

Why We Need Threshold FHE for Blockchains
10-13, 17:10–17:20 (America/Bogota), Talk 3

There is a fundamental limit to building privacy-preserving applications in ZK. For example, we do not know how to replicate applications such as Uniswap and Aave in zero knowledge where complete privacy for users is achieved. This talk introduces how threshold FHE can help fill the gap ZK tech leave us desiring--privacy for shared-state applications.

Wei Dai is a Cryptographer at Bain Capital Crypto. He is not the inventor of b-money, who the unit of Ethereum and the Maker stablecoin is named after. Nevertheless, he aspires to contribute enough to the R&D of blockchains so that he may one day become "the Wei Dai."

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