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society for interdependent software

OS for Safes @zodiaceco
confidential coordination @theInterfold

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

Ciphernodes are the operators that make encrypted execution possible in the Interfold.

They help generate public keys for encrypted inputs and contribute threshold shares when approved outputs are ready to be decrypted.

Read the primer: https://t.co/Eq08Fphk6x

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

New Interfold website.

If you've been trying to understand confidential coordination, multiplayer privacy, ciphernodes, or what we're actually building, this is a good place to start.

https://t.co/wLgUtOBCOc

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

MACI made one thing clear:

private inputs and shared outcomes shouldn't depend on one operator.

Voting was the starting point.

The Interfold generalizes that pattern into a network for confidential coordination.

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

Meet Alessandro (@ctrlc03), Senior Engineer at The Interfold.

With experience spanning cybersecurity, cryptography, contributions to MACI, p0tion, and @PrivacyEthereum infrastructure, he's helping build the foundations for multiparty privacy at scale.

We're grateful to have him on our team!

https://t.co/DfJsyZWKU6

[Giacomo @0xjei]

hey, today gave a lecture on ZK and posted some notes about what I said and the exercises! Very beginner friendly and helps you get the mental model, cheers!

https://t.co/1ZnthKfUgV

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

@TrustlessState @AskVenice @Lighter_xyz @theInterfold obviously

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

@theInterfold

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

More people should know about the Interfold.

It's basically what I've been yelling at people to build with the MACI ideas ( https://t.co/mlDy84zXQo ) for almost a decade, and now it exists, in a generalized form.

The idea is: a privacy protocol optimized for things like voting (and other use cases eg. secret-ballot auctions). The mechanism generates a threshold encryption key, and people send in their votes onchain, using a ZKP to prove eligibility. An arbitrary computation on the votes gets run inside FHE, and then threshold-decrypted.

From what I can tell (the docs are good https://t.co/adzwK6ezMN ), it gets pretty optimal security guarantees:

* Voter anonymity can be made unconditional if eligibility is proven with ZK-SNARKs
* Censorship resistance is guaranteed by ethereum (votes can be posted directly onchain, and there's a proof that all posted votes are taking into account)
* The correctness of the outputted result can be ensured via ZK over FHE
* Liveness and coercion resistance depend on M-of-N honesty; unavoidable given present-day technology

The main limitation is that today "ZK over FHE" is only properly available for additive vote tallying, as it's too expensive for computations that involve multiplication or other more complicated manipulation at the moment. There's work in progress on slashing-based / optimistic computation for such situations.

(And of course ideally in the long term we'd figure out obfuscation so you can get rid of the M-of-N committees😃)

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

principled people like @auryn_macmillan delivering confidential compute via @theInterfold

also avail as a talk at Cypherpunk Congress: https://t.co/PsOhX538vs

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

Privacy gets more interesting when it has to produce a shared outcome.

A winner.
A tally.
An evaluation.

The hard part isn't hiding information.

It's producing a verifiable result without giving one party control over the process.

New Launch Primer ↓

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

useful report from Quantus on quantum risk, cryptographic migration, and the coordination challenges facing crypto infrastructure.

see the report for @auryn_macmillan's take

[Quantus @QuantusNetwork]

The crypto industry is on a collision course with quantum computing.

We just published a report on where it stands, what it does to crypto, and what the industry is and isn't doing.

Introducing 👇

"The State of Quantum: What Crypto Can't Afford to Ignore"

A thank you to our co-collaborators,

@NEARProtocol
@near_intents
@quipnetwork
@cadillion
@midnightfdn
@SebastienGllmt
@KeystoneWallet
@gnosisguild
@auryn_macmillan
@terminal3io
@SwaynesWord
@tx_track

Link here 👇
https://t.co/XVsyMAdelg

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

facts

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

More people should know about the Interfold.

It's basically what I've been yelling at people to build with the MACI ideas ( https://t.co/mlDy84zXQo ) for almost a decade, and now it exists, in a generalized form.

The idea is: a privacy protocol optimized for things like voting (and other use cases eg. secret-ballot auctions). The mechanism generates a threshold encryption key, and people send in their votes onchain, using a ZKP to prove eligibility. An arbitrary computation on the votes gets run inside FHE, and then threshold-decrypted.

From what I can tell (the docs are good https://t.co/adzwK6ezMN ), it gets pretty optimal security guarantees:

* Voter anonymity can be made unconditional if eligibility is proven with ZK-SNARKs
* Censorship resistance is guaranteed by ethereum (votes can be posted directly onchain, and there's a proof that all posted votes are taking into account)
* The correctness of the outputted result can be ensured via ZK over FHE
* Liveness and coercion resistance depend on M-of-N honesty; unavoidable given present-day technology

The main limitation is that today "ZK over FHE" is only properly available for additive vote tallying, as it's too expensive for computations that involve multiplication or other more complicated manipulation at the moment. There's work in progress on slashing-based / optimistic computation for such situations.

(And of course ideally in the long term we'd figure out obfuscation so you can get rid of the M-of-N committees😃)

[Zodiac @zodiaceco]

Some vault actions are routine.
Others change the system's risk surface.

They should not sit behind the same permissions.

Policy Pattern 04:
Curator Ops, Separated by Authority

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

@theInterfold big if true

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

technology as applied metaphysics

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

“Voting was just one of a whole class of applications that benefit from being able to have many private inputs from many different parties, arbitrarily compute over them, and produce a verifiable output.”

On the recent @zeroknowledgefm podcast, @auryn_macmillan breaks down the core idea behind The Interfold, and why encrypted execution environments unlock far more than just private voting.

A great deep dive with @AnnaRRose

https://t.co/xbVSRNz65a

[gnosis guild 𒆙 @gnosisguild]

the interfold reflects a lot of what gg has been wokring toward: infrastructure for distributing authority, not concentrating it.

start with the first launch primer:

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

The Interfold Launch Primer starts today.

Over the next several weeks, we'll explain the system, the network, ciphernodes, and the path to participation.

First: How Interfold works, from private inputs to collective outcomes.

[AdamHurwitz.eth @adamshurwitz]

Voting and auctions that are open source verifiable, while remaining private and decentralized are mainstream opportunities for @theInterfold

It's useful to hear how @zodiaceco roles based access controls for @safe protect top performing organizations and ecosystems like Gnosis DAO, Gnosis Pay, KPK, Arbitrum sub DAOs, etc.

"Worst case a hacker can only move funds from an account you own to another account you own" - @auryn_macmillan

[The Interfold @theInterfold]

The Interfold Launch Primer starts today.

Over the next several weeks, we'll explain the system, the network, ciphernodes, and the path to participation.

First: How Interfold works, from private inputs to collective outcomes.