WorkLock Security Audit From January 13 through 17, we engaged Trail of Bits to audit the WorkLock smart contract (along with various smart contract size optimizations). As a reminder, the WorkLock is our
CASI Phase 2 Tasks Whew, congrats on finishing the Phase 1 tasks! You've evolved from a Nuub into a grizzled NuCypherino and are ready for Phase 2 (Advanced Staking & Node Operations), which will
CASI Phase 1 Tasks Hello, NuCypherinos! The list of tasks for Phase 1 (Core Staking and Node Operations) are below. In this phase, you'll get testnet NU, stake it, spin up an Ursula worker
Come and Stake It (CASI) Incentivized Testnet In 480 BC, at the Battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas of Sparta rejected the Persian army's demand of surrender, instead challenging Xerxes and his mighty force to "Molon labe," or
privacy Today's kids need end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption is a crucial tool for parents seeking to keep their kids' beginning-of-life data out of the hands of organizations whose only purpose is to use it against them.
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
The Final Countdown: Public Testnet + Professional Staking Round Today, NuCypher enters the home stretch towards our long-awaited mainnet launch.
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...
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.
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
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
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?
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 constructing the first lattice-based anonymous reputation system. She also holds a
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
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...
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
The WorkLock: An improved token distribution model A proposal for an improved token distribution model
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
NuCypher + CoinList Hackathon At NuCypher, our favorite way to engage with the community is through hackathons. Seeing participants build well thought-out and…
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…
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…
#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…
2018 Year in Review As we forge ahead into 2019, we wanted to reflect on NuCypher’s progress over the past year.
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…
