Aug 27, 2021
Partisia Blockchain Round Up: August 2021
We are delighted to release our first monthly update post, which will keep you in the loop on all our latest news and developments.
We raised $25MM!
The round was led by Ausvic Capital, P2P.org, Kosmos, and Bitscale, as well as other key players including Crypto Bazar Capital, CRT Capital, Gate.io Labs, and Insignius Capital. Thank you to everyone who took part. Read more here.
We made new strategic appointments to our advisory board and executive team. Welcome to the team, Christian Cachin, Nagib Aouini and Nick O’Neill! Read the full press release here.
Partisia MPC Wallet Beta is Live on Chrome and Firefox! Read more here.
Sharding Is Now Live On Betanet!
We are delighted to share this significant technical update with you with the aim of facilitating high network speeds.
Node Operator Update
There are now 38 node operators in production on Betanet, and an additional 65 that are whitelisted. If you or someone you know might be interested in becoming a node operator, please email accounts@pbc.foundation.
In the Media
Dr. Kurt Nielsen’s, Co-founder of Partisia Blockchain, opinion article ‘Tech Giants Failed to Protect Consumer Data — Blockchain Can Help’ was published in BeInCrypto. Read the full article here.
Another article of Kurt’s titled Can blockchain and MPC technology protect the integrity of auctions? Was published in Help Net Security. Check it out here.
Spotlight: ‘Five Things I Learned As A Twenty-Something Founder’.
Partisia Blockchain’s Brian Gallagher sat down with Authority Magazine. Read the full Q&A here.
“If you can, go work at a startup first. The experience you gain could make your own startup a success rather than a failure, based on learning from the mistakes you will see first hand by working at another startup.”
Dr. Kurt Nielsen discussed how we can alleviate data risks through MPC on the Irish Tech News Podcast. Listen back here.
MPC Techniques, A Weekly Blog Series By Partisia Blockchain
We recently ran a weekly blog series where we presented some of the basic techniques which can be used to implement MPC. In case you missed them, you can find them below:
- Secret Sharing
- Security Taxonomy and Active Security
- Secret Sharing Shamir Style
- Beaver’s Trick
- What is Oblivious Transfer, and why should you care?
- Secure two-party computation with Garbled Circuits
- Homomorphic Encryption
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs — What Are They and What Are They Good For?
- SPDZ
- MPC-as-a-Service — the Partisia Blockchain Infrastructure
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