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ETHWaterloo2 Hackathon - Season Finale!
Blockchain

ETHWaterloo2 Hackathon - Season Finale!

What a busy few months it's been for us at NuCypher. After a stretch in Europe for ETHBerlin, Web3 Summit, and Berlin Blockchain Week, we parted ways before quickly reuniting in Japan for

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
5 min read
The Final Countdown: Public Testnet + Professional Staking Round

The Final Countdown: Public Testnet + Professional Staking Round

Today, NuCypher enters the home stretch towards our long-awaited mainnet launch.

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
3 min read
What exactly do we mean by access revocation?
proxy re-encryption

What exactly do we mean by access revocation?

The topic of access revocation tends to be a confusing one in the context of encryption and data sharing. In our presentations, when we mention the ease of access revocation with proxy re-encryption as one of our sources of value...

  • Derek Pierre
    Derek Pierre
3 min read
Three things that NuCypher's "Ursula" can do that vanilla public-key cryptography can't
Blockchain

Three things that NuCypher's "Ursula" can do that vanilla public-key cryptography can't

There are three good answers - and several more OK answers. This post will go through the three good answers and leave the reader to mull over the others.

  • Justin Myles Holmes
    Justin Myles Holmes
4 min read
Security Audits (Round 2)

Security Audits (Round 2)

In February we completed a second round of security audits with Trail of Bits. You can view the full report here (PDF). This audit focused on our slashing protocol, contract upgrade scheme, and

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
1 min read
Welcoming my friend Damon Ciarelli to NuCypher

Welcoming my friend Damon Ciarelli to NuCypher

Responding to a need for more stovetop popcorn, verbose hand gestures to explain programming metaphors, and tales of bowling in every state in the union, NuCypher has made the highly questionable and haphazard

  • Justin Myles Holmes
    Justin Myles Holmes
2 min read
Upgradeable Smart Contracts: In Defense of delegateCall()

Upgradeable Smart Contracts: In Defense of delegateCall()

If privacy-preserving solutions are unaffordable, the security discussion is already a non-starter.In the weird world of upgradeable smart contracts (or have we moved to calling them "persistent scripts" yet?), three possible patterns

  • Justin Myles Holmes
    Justin Myles Holmes
5 min read

Welcoming Ravital Solomon

I'm very pleased to welcome Ravital Solomon to the NuCypher team! Ravital is a cryptographer and holds an MSc in Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science from Oxford University, where she completed her thesis

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
1 min read
ETHNY + NuCypher
ethereum

ETHNY + NuCypher

‌The NuCypher team is headed to New York City this week to get settled in for a couple of New York Blockchain Week events. If you've been following us for a while you'll

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
5 min read
ETHCape Town and the NuCypher + ETHGlobal 2019 Hackathon Tour

ETHCape Town and the NuCypher + ETHGlobal 2019 Hackathon Tour

ETHGlobal is a leader in organizing global developer engagement which is why we're delighted to announce a 2019 partnership. Next up is this weekend with ETHCape Town...

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
5 min read
Community Update #14

Community Update #14

We're well into what's been a busy 2019 with many noteworthy events. Here's a recap of what we've been up to in the last couple months: Proposing the WorkLock: As our mainnet launch

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
3 min read
The WorkLock: An improved token distribution model

The WorkLock: An improved token distribution model

A proposal for an improved token distribution model

  • Michael Egorov
  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
6 min read
The Road to Secure Computation

The Road to Secure Computation

Last week, I gave a technical deep dive on secure computation at Zero Knowledge Summit (ZK0X03) in Berlin, where I covered secure multi-party computation (sMPC), trusted execution environments (TEEs), and fully homomorphic encryption

  • tux
1 min read
The NuCypher Hackathon Tour 2019

The NuCypher Hackathon Tour 2019

Hacks on hacks on hacks…

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
3 min read
NuCypher + CoinList Hackathon

NuCypher + CoinList Hackathon

At NuCypher, our favorite way to engage with the community is through hackathons. Seeing participants build well thought-out and…

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
6 min read
Bufficorn Recap

Bufficorn Recap

Wow — what an amazing event by the ETHDenver team! NuCypher was proud to attend for the second year and we’re already looking forward to…

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
2 min read
NuCypher Genesis Release

NuCypher Genesis Release

We’re pleased to announce the Genesis Release (v0.1.0-alpha.0) of the NuCypher project. This release is a big step forward in the maturity…

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
2 min read
#BUIDL the Future of Privacy at ETHDenver

#BUIDL the Future of Privacy at ETHDenver

Hey ETHDenver hackers! All of us at NuCypher, the privacy layer of the decentralized web, are super excited to meet you in a few weeks…

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
3 min read
2018 Year in Review

2018 Year in Review

As we forge ahead into 2019, we wanted to reflect on NuCypher’s progress over the past year.

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
1 min read
Free as in Freedom: Why I Fight For GPL at NuCypher

Free as in Freedom: Why I Fight For GPL at NuCypher

At NuCypher, we develop privacy tools and protocols for the next generation of the web. As we develop these tools, the strategy for how we…

  • tux
3 min read
Security Audits (Round 1)

Security Audits (Round 1)

At NuCypher, one of our core values is to eschew the traditional Silicon Valley ethos of move fast and break things and to instead #buidl…

  • MacLane Wilkison
    MacLane Wilkison
1 min read
Community Update 13 — The first glimpse of Testnet…

Community Update 13 — The first glimpse of Testnet…

Ahoj! (At DevCon, we learned that’s Czech for hello.) Here is a recap for the past few weeks:

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
3 min read
Why we’re rolling our own “intra-planetary” node discovery at NuCypher

Why we’re rolling our own “intra-planetary” node discovery at NuCypher

Nearly all of my casual conversations about decentralized network architecture for the past three months or so have quickly come to be (at…

  • Justin Myles Holmes
    Justin Myles Holmes
6 min read
Community Update #12 — Back to EU

Community Update #12 — Back to EU

It was awesome to meet many of you at ETH San Francisco and Web3 Summit, but not to fear, DevCon is right around the corner… and so is…

  • Ryan Caruso
    Ryan Caruso
3 min read
Access control for real-world data, generated by real-world humans

Access control for real-world data, generated by real-world humans

Case study: A network of on-the-ground Dataeum collectors continually generates valuable real-world data, selling on to location-based…

  • Arjun Hassard
12 min read
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