In this episode, Yannik Schrade, CEO of Arcium, explains how they're building an encrypted supercomputer to bring privacy to both Web2 and Web3. We explore:
• The journey from creating one of the world's most downloaded iPad apps to building privacy infrastructure
• Why current privacy solutions like trusted hardware and zero-knowledge proofs aren't enough
• How Arcium achieves efficient private computation through pre-computed multiplications and oblivious data structures
• The future of private AI - from confidential training to trustless inference
• Why privacy should be infrastructure, not a product
• The path to bringing institutional players into DeFi through privacy
• How Arcium could enable everything from dark pools to private gaming
Timestamps -
00:00 Introduction to Web3 and Privacy
02:54 The Journey from Law to Crypto
05:50 Building Elusive: On-Chain Transactional Privacy
09:06 The Encrypted Supercomputer
11:57 AI's Role in Crypto and User Experience
14:51 Legacy Approach to Privacy Enhancing Technologies
18:05 Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Their Limitations
20:53 The Future of Privacy in DeFi and Healthcare
23:47 Secure Multi-Party Computation: A New Paradigm
27:12 Confidential Computing and Trust Models
32:32 Transforming Encrypted Data into Random Values
34:27 Understanding Arcium's Position in the Tech Stack
36:54 Arcium as an Encrypted Supercomputer
38:52 Efficiency of Secure Multi-Party Computation
41:47 Flexibility and Oblivious Data Structures in MPC
44:11 Selective Disclosure and Composability in Confidential Computing
46:03 Arcium's Autonomous Network and Accountability Protocols
49:55 AI Agents and Trust in Decision-Making
52:45 Responsible AI and Explainability
56:48 Market Landscape and Use Cases for Arcium
