Blockchain Lit up Cold Windy City — ARPA 2nd World Meetup in Chicago
On Wednesday, October 17th, ARPA co-hosted the Loyalty Live Conference 2018 Afterparty with Chicago Blockchain Project and Untraceable at the Hubbard Inn at Downtown Chicago.
The afterparty also served as the second stop of the ARPA global meetup tour, after Silicon Valley. Chicago is the financial and trading hub of the world, center for innovation of the U.S. and home to numerous fortune 500 companies such as United Airlines, Boeing and McDonald’s.
Despite the chilly, windy Chicagoan night, over 200 attendees were present at the afterparty, including the Julie Lyle, the former global executive at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, and Prudential, and Philip Shelper, CEO & Founder at Loyalty Reward & Co.
Friends and guests from Citadel, HSBC, United Airlines, Blackstone, Discover, KPMG, PwC digital accelerator, Untraceable, Blockpulse, Groupon, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and Build312 were present.
ARPA’s co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Yemu Xu, gave a brief introduction about APRA and its vision to bring privacy to blockchain, data industry and beyond. described the vision that APRA is trying to achieve.
“I’d like to thank you all for coming tonight, it’s our joint effort like this that makes Chicago a more important voice in the blockchain space.”
The crypto and blockchain world will no longer be in in a silo as it used to be during the cyberpunk era. Blockchain is an amazing technology. But is not the goal, but always a means to an end.
Currently, only less than 1% of the data is being utilized or shared due to the lack of a secure waynto monetize these humongous amount of data.
“What we do at ARPA is not only trying to bring blockchain to mass-adoption by offering unprecedented private smart contract, but also to use privacy-preserving blockchain and the power of ARPA computation network as a tool to unlock the potential power of data in this digital era.”
“We are extremely proud and humbled by the talents that are working with us. We currently have an 11 core full-time team, all quitting their high-paying jobs in the United States, Japan, and France, working full-time in Beijing, 12–15 hours a day, 6 days a week.
We are also partnering up with the best scholars in the field, along with a strong engineering team consisting of ex-Googlers, blockchain experts, and hedge fund system architects. That’s why we are so confident that we are going to deliver.”
In terms of the progress, APRA already has the Proof of Concept (POC) and is expecting to launch testnet in early 2019.
To get a better understanding of how ARPA is going to bring privacy to blockchain and data, please read our litepaper.
If you want to contact us, please email to about@arpachain.io.
ABOUT ARPA
ARPA is the privacy-preserving solution for blockchain. ARPA’s secure computation network enables 1) private smart contract, 2) unprecedented privacy protection for data-at-use, 3) scalable computational sharding via Verifiable Computation.
ARPA enables numerous use cases including secure data renting/exchange, secure cloud computation, identity protection, computation outsourcing, etc. These cases are applicable to AI, banking, insurance, healthcare, IoT, government etc.
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