Fabric, Startup Building ‘VPU’ Chips for Cryptography, Raises $33M
Fabric Cryptography, a startup focused on hardware, has raised $33 million in a Series A fundraising round. (Creative Commons)
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It’s a Different Sort of Olympics as Cryptographers Face Off in Polyhedra’s ‘Proof Arena’
With Polyhedra’s new “Proof Arena,” it should be easier to tell who’s the fastest (April Walker/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)
Exiled Russian Opposition Leader Launches Blockchain-Based Referendum on Vladimir Putin’s Election Win
Exiled opposition leader Mark Fegyin is leading an effort to give Russians an anonymous, blockchain-powered way to register a “protest vote” against Russia’s election results which have handed Vladimir Putin a fifth term as Russian president.
Cryptography Firm Zama Raises $73M for ‘Fully Homomorphic Encryption’ Apps
The funding found was led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs and included participation from Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Ethereum and Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood. The ‘FHE’ technology allows for processing of encrypted data, useful for privacy in blockchain and AI.