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According to official news, federated learning protocol Primus announced the completion of a $6.50 million pre-seed and seed round of financing. This round of financing was led by Dispersion VC, Symbolic VC and VanEck, with participation from Samsung Next, Alchemy, Maelstrom Fund, Welara, BB Fund, Modular Capital, Karatage, Initial Ventures and other institutions. Primus is a protocol that securely performs computations on untrusted networks without exposing sensitive data through the Multiparty...
According to Jin Ten, European privacy regulators will discuss DeepSeek at a meeting on Tuesday local time.
On February 7th, privacy and security computing network Nillion announced that the registration window for NIL token airdrop has been closed. After the mainnet goes live, participants' NIL tokens will be deposited into their application wallets. Failure to register in time will result in the loss of Nillion airdrop eligibility. Nillion has allocated up to 75,000,000 tokens (7.5% of the total supply) to its community members and early builders.
DeepSeek was grilled by Irish privacy authorities over its use of data.
On January 18, programmable privacy network Aleo announced on the X platform that the number of network validators has expanded from 16 to 25, and it is expected to share more information about specific validators next week.
Privacy-first social protocol Rarimo has announced the completion of a $2.50 million Vision round dedicated to founders. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Celestia co-founder Nick White, RiscZero co-founder Brian Retford, Gnosis co-founder Stefan George, Aleo co-founder Alex Pruden, Monad co-founder Keone Hon, Aztec co-founder Zac Williamson, Arnaud Schenk, Aztec co-founder and Zcash contributor Ariel Gabizon, Alpen Labs founder Liam Eagan, Polygon Zero co-founder Dan...
The privacy public chain Namada posted that Namada has confirmed the launch of the mainnet on December 3. For the mainnet genesis (the first phase), starting from December 3, users will be able to pledge NAM to validators and vote on on-chain governance proposals.
Brentstone, a contributor to the privacy public chain Namada, said in the community forum that the Namada mainnet practice run will be extended until November 28, with mainnet genesis (phase 1) taking place next week (sometime between December 2 and 6).
Speaking at the Near Redacted conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Edward Snowden, a privacy advocate and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, said the importance of decentralization in countering the widespread surveillance capabilities brought about by artificial intelligence. He warned that artificial intelligence-driven surveillance would allow governments and businesses to process large amounts of personal data in real time, potentially paving the way for large-scale real-time data...
Privacy-focused Swiss startup Nym Technologies has announced it will buy back $1 million worth of NYM tokens. The company plans to launch NymVPN in the coming weeks.
The privacy chain Namada tweeted that it will conduct a practice run before the official launch of the mainnet. The practice run is a walkthrough of the five-stage startup process by the Creation Verifier.
1. Privacy blockchain project Nillion raised $25 million; 2. Blockchain startup Vixichain completes $7 million financing; 3.AI data collection startup Sapien raised $10.50 million in seed funding. 4. Magma, Monad's ecological liquidity pledge agreement, completed a $3.90 million seed round of financing; 5. Solana expansion infrastructure developer Nitro Labs completed a $4 million seed round of financing.
Privacy blockchain project Nillion has raised $25 million in a funding round led by Hack VC, with Arbitrum, Worldcoin and Sei also participating. Nillion is trying to attract projects at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) that need to securely share and store large amounts of data. Blockchain converges with AI by attempting to decentralize ownership and leverage the data required by AI engines, preventing it from being dominated by a few centralized entities.
Stablecoin issuer Circle, in collaboration with Inco Network, will release a privacy ERC-20 framework that uses fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), allowing for the hiding of balances and transaction amounts and programmatic risk management to maintain compliance while protecting user privacy.
On October 24th, Aztec, a privacy and scalability solution based on ZK Rollup, tweeted that it has opened applications for the Sequencer and Prover testnets. The testnet is designed to solve problems with the Sequencer selection protocol, the coordination mechanism between Sequencer and Prover, and the governance (upgrade) mechanism.
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