Nihilium

Chain agnostic, un-censorable, decentralized recovery and access control protocol.

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

Recovery is the key to sovereignty. @ovanwijk during the amazing @EthPrague event giving a crash course on key recovery! https://t.co/8I0a7TK5RM

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

Privacy is secrecy
... of secrets.

For privacy to go beyond power users we need to solve secret (key) recovery solutions.

Nihilium is doing exactly that!

[Olaf van Wijk @ovanwijk]

@XBToshi This is exactly why the staking behind @nihiliumio is not allowed to have tokens with a blacklist function. It is just an attack vector

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

Thank you for organizing this and thanks to all the support! The QF round will greatly help us to be more out there spreading the word for proper key recovery solutions!!

[thedao.fund @thedaofund]

Our first funding round was a massive success!

Congratulations to all the Ethereum security projects collecting about $1.6M in total and to Giveth for organizing a fantastic QF Round.

What started as a 500 ETH matching pool ultimately grew to 637 ETH+ thanks to ecosystem contributions.

Shout out to @wintermute_t for adding $200K to the matching pool and to @Quantstamp whose early $50K donation helped kick off momentum for direct matching pool contributions across the round.

We also saw over $300k+ in direct donations to 134 projects!

Our hope is that one day using Ethereum will be safer than using banks. To get to that day we believe it will require a community effort. This round validates that approach.

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

If there is anyone out there looking to solve one of the largest (UX) issues with crypto and privacy currently?

Key recovery

Let us know!

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

🧵Privacy is not just online content.
It’s real people gathering IRL around ideas.

Thanks to all the participants of our meetup during @ETHCluj

Few highlights👇

[Olaf van Wijk @ovanwijk]

This is why @nihiliumio, a protocol for key/secret recovery is using 'combinatorial threshold' trading complexity and orchestration overhead for ciphertext size and local compute, with the added benefit of picking your own group. Which allows for geographic arbitrage. It only uses standard cryptography making it very easy to reason about.

Nihilium is probably one of the few protocols that treats MPC setups as adversaries for collusion.

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

From just starting to go public to 41 backers during the @thedaofund QF round by @Giveth ! We are very happy with all the support! Key recovery is one of the biggest problems to solve, you will definitely hear more about us!

[Giveth @Giveth]

When the Ethereum community locks in to support security projects 🔥

[Mike ~ priv/acc @0xmikemcc]

Decentralised key recovery really is one of the core missing pieces of our stack.

You’re not bullish enough on @nihiliumio

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

@ovanwijk @EthPrague And if you want to support this work and looking to join the QF round by @thedaofund and @Giveth make sure to visit our page as well: https://t.co/AmAbcMZrHQ

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

Recovery is the key to sovereignty. @ovanwijk during the amazing @EthPrague event giving a crash course on key recovery! https://t.co/8I0a7TK5RM

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

Happy to hear we are not the only ones that think good recovery is essential 💪

[thedao.fund @thedaofund]

Web3 needs recovery that does not compromise self-custody.

@nihiliumio is building self-sovereign key recovery for Web3, using ZK proofs and slashable conditions so users can recover access without handing control to a custodian.

Learn more: https://t.co/5RwCb04Q1N

Support: https://t.co/noCOFQuqKF

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

@sigp_io @Giveth Better security starts with strong recovery, if that is taken care off, operational security can be the focus.

Want strong security for crypto, web3 and beyond? Consider supporting us for this QF round! https://t.co/AmAbcMZrHQ

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

@pashov Better security starts with strong recovery, if that is taken care off, operational security can be the focus.

Want strong security for crypto, web3 and beyond? Consider supporting us for this QF round!
https://t.co/AmAbcMZrHQ

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

🚨 The UK says it wants to "protect children online"

Yet, forcing EVERYONE to verify their age won't stop harm - but put all of us under surveillance.

Today, we've signed an open letter together with @mullvadnet @torproject @mozilla & others to stop #AgeVerification in the UK 💪

Read the complete letter: https://t.co/jf3NVURtDH

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

A great week is coming up! We will be at @EthPrague, @ETHCluj and @web3privacy events!

If you want to know more about how key recovery is going to onboard the next billion users and how Nihilium is making it possible? Make sure to catch @ovanwijk there!

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

@jchaskin22 @thedaofund Thnx! The support is much appreciated!

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

Just made my donation to the @thedaofund - the biggest QF matching round ever, with over $1M in matching funds

I donated around 0.085 ETH each to 20 projects

It was genuinely hard to choose. I could’ve given to way more. If I didn’t include you, it doesn’t mean I don’t think your work matters

Here are the projects I supported and why:

@zachxbt
It’s frustrating that the US gov targeted good actors while scammers and grifters largely go untouched. Zach does an incredible job tracking bad actors and bringing transparency to the space

@_SEAL_Org 911 + Certs
Literal first responders for crypto hacks. You can ping them mid-incident and they show up. Public good heroes. SEAL Certs is pushing toward real security standards and verification

lfglabs (dot) dev + @Verifereum
Formal verification is one of the most powerful (and underused) tools in security

@tanuki42_
Don’t know him personally, but trusted by the SEAL team and contributes there. Anyone volunteering their time like that deserves support

@RevokeCash
We’ve all used it. Critical tool for managing approvals. Saved users countless times

@l2beat
Goes without saying. They keep L2s honest and transparent around trust assumptions

@blockthreat
One of the best security newsletters. Deep, detailed breakdowns of the ecosystem

@blockscout
Open-source block explorer. Important counterbalance to closed-source infra like Etherscan

@blobscan
Open-source blob explorer. Important for visibility into L2 data

@buidlguidl
Onboarding and educating the next generation of Ethereum devs

@ProtocolGuild
An experiment to sustainably fund core contributors. We should all want this to succeed

@opsek_io
Something I didn’t know before this round. Securing the software we actually run is just as important

@walletbeat
Wallets are how we access Ethereum. If they’re not aligned, we don’t actually have trustless access. Important work holding them accountable

@crossbar_inc
Didn’t know this one either. Very cool to see serious open-source hardware efforts

@cyfrin Updraft
@PatrickAlphaC's courses helped me (and a ton of others) get into Solidity

@ECHInstitute
@poojaranjan19 and team do an incredible job coordinating and educating around the protocol

@nihiliumio
Key management and UX are still broken. Way too easy to lose everything. Glad people are working on fixing it

@zodiaceco
Extending multisigs with better account management. Multisigs should be the default

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

It was great to be covered and it was a great effort to try cover all projects! Well done! Nihilium got cover at the 5:06 Mark! Make sure to check it out !

https://t.co/AmAbcMZZxo

[Nihilium @nihiliumio]

It was great to be covered and it was a great effort to try cover all projects! Well done! Nihilium got cover at the 5:06 Mark! Make sure to check it out !

https://t.co/AmAbcMZZxo

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

Live now: @jchaskin22 & @griffgreen review the 100+ projects in @thedaofund's Quadratic Funding Round—@Giveth's biggest QF round.
https://t.co/JHblACnEhB