Privacy and Scaling Explorations
Privacy and Scaling Explorations
We explore use cases for zero-knowledge proofs and other cryptographic primitives through research and proof-of-concept apps. appliedzkp.org
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Semaphore Community Grants: Awarded Projects
January 24th, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the awarded projects from the recent Semaphore Community Grants round. This grants round invited builders, researchers, developers and privacy advocates to build privacy preserving applications integrating Semaphore, an anonymous signaling protocol.
Announcing MACI v1.1.1
January 18th, 2023
This post was authored by Alessandro and Chao.
Zkitter: An Anon-friendly Social Network
January 11th, 2023
Zkitter is a decentralized social network where users have the option to interact anonymously. The platform provides familiar social media functions such as posting, chatting, following, and liking, but with a private identity layer under the hood.
UniRep Protocol
January 4th, 2023
Anonymity gives people a clean slate to express themselves, unconnected to an existing identity. Reputation provides context: it reveals an aspect about a person’s history in relation to others. UniRep protocol adds reputation to anonymity, allowing people to provide relational context without revealing specifics of their history.
November 15th, 2022
The potential of zero-knowledge cryptography was on full display at Devcon VI in Bogota, which featured a dedicated ZK track for the first time ever. Since most of PSE’s work has happened in the 3 years since Devcon V in Osaka, it was also a debut for many of our projects – and many of our team members met for the first time! There was a lot we were excited to share with the community. In this post, we’ll revisit some highlights of our time in Bogota, including talks by PSE team members and the Devcon VI Temporary Anonymous Zone.
November 14th, 2022
This post was authored by grantee Sora Suegami (Twitter, Github)
Semaphore Community Grants
September 21st, 2022
The Privacy and Scaling Explorations Team is sponsoring a dedicated round of grants for applications that integrate the Semaphore anonymous signaling protocol. Semaphore provides zero-knowledge primitives that enable developers to build powerful privacy preserving applications. With this grant round, we’re encouraging builders to try out these tools in real-world applications that matter to your communities.
September 13th, 2022
Reputation is built one block at a time, on and off-chain.
August 29th, 2022
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