Join Nick New (CEO – Optalysys), Joe Wilson (Head of Strategic Innovation, Optalysys) & Cryptography Expert Dimitar Jetchev (CEO and Co-founder – Inpher) to explore how Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), and hardware acceleration are paving the way for truly confidential and scalable blockchain applications. 

Beyond transparency 

Blockchain’s transparency is powerful, but it limits adoption. Sensitive enterprise data, private DeFi strategies, and user confidentiality demand robust privacy solutions to combat issues like MEV exploitation and meet regulatory requirements. How can blockchain deliver both trust and privacy to enable wider mass adoption? 

Privacy Enhancing Technologies like ZKPs and FHE offer pathways forward, but they have distinct capabilities and challenges. Understanding how they work, where they differ, and how they might converge is crucial for anyone building in Web3 and interested in the future of digital.

What you’ll learn: 

• The limitations of public ledgers and the need for privacy in DeFi, enterprise blockchain, and beyond 
• Where Zero-Knowledge Proofs excel and the types of on-chain privacy challenges they don’t fully address
• How Fully Homomorphic Encryption enables direct computation on encrypted data, unlocking new possibilities for confidential smart contracts and dApps 
• What the path to a scalable, secure, and confidential blockchain ecosystem looks like, including the critical role of performant infrastructure and how ZKPs and FHE might synergise 

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