Blockchain Privacy & Technology - Zama utilizes Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to enable on-chain confidentiality while maintaining scalability and composability [1] - FHE adds an encryption layer to blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, facilitating private stablecoins, trading, payments, and DeFi [1] - The solution doesn't require changes to user experience (UX) or the use of bridges [1] - Zama highlights major performance breakthroughs in FHE [1] Applications & Use Cases - FHE enables compliance-friendly private computation [1] - Encrypted auctions and confidential AI are potential applications [1] Project Status - Zama is preparing for its mainnet launch [1]

Technology & Innovation - Mind Network is building HTTPZ, a "Zero Trust Protocol" for the next-gen internet [1] - HTTPZ ensures end-to-end data encryption during transit, storage, and computation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) [1] - FHE enables Agentic AI security and on-chain data privacy for Real World Assets (RWA) [1] Partnerships & Rewards - Mind Network is a member of Chainlink Build [1] - Chainlink Rewards Season 1 is live, with eligible LINK token stakers able to check their "Cubes" [1] - Cubes can be allocated to Mind Network's FHE infrastructure [2]

Privacy Technologies Comparison - MPC (Multi-Party Computation), tFHE (threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption), and TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) enable private applications beyond ZK (Zero-Knowledge proofs) capabilities [1] - The privacy strength of MPC, tFHE, and TEEs is weaker compared to pure ZK solutions [1] - For use-cases like payments, transfers, and voting, pure ZK is recommended if feasible [1]

Efficiency Metrics in Cryptography - The industry suggests reporting cryptographic overhead as a ratio of in-cryptography computation time versus raw computation time [1] - This ratio provides a hardware-independent measure of efficiency loss when using cryptographic applications instead of trust-dependent ones [1] - Overhead factor aids developers in estimating cryptographic computation time based on their existing knowledge of raw computation time [1] Challenges in Overhead Measurement - Measuring overhead is complex due to heterogeneous operations in execution and proving, especially with SIMD/parallelization and memory access patterns [2] - Despite imperfections, the industry believes overhead factor remains a valuable metric [2]

Web3 & Encryption Technology - dWallet Labs introduces REFHE: Fully Homomorphic ALU, a new FHE scheme [1] - The scheme natively supports both arithmetic and logical operations on 64-bit machine words [1] - This is a step toward treating FHE not as a circuit model - but as a real compute model [1] Company Focus - dWallet Labs (the team behind Ika) released a paper on encryption [1] Industry Impact - Web3's brightest gigabrains are building on Sui [1]