ctrlc03.eth retweeted
the proposed Constitution sets out a privacy-first, open, forkable, and opt-in network.
whether you agree or disagree, we'd love to have your voice in shaping what comes next.
voting closes tonight at 05:06 UTC.
The Interfold Constitution is back on the ballot.
Privacy first.
Open, forkable, and opt-in.
We're putting these principles to a secret vote on the network itself.
$FOLD holders with active voting power: five days to have your say ↓ governance.theinterfold.com/…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Epoch 13 Privacy Round via @OctantApp is live until 21 Oct.
Quadratic/matched funding: donate or vote for @session_app → your contribution is matched from the 100 ETH pool.
Support continued Session development here:
epoch.octant.app/rounds/0x57…
The latest on Protocol v2, the next major upgrade to Session, adding PFS, post-quantum encryption and verified device linking.
To support the deployment of v2, Session is raising funds via @OctantApp until October 21.
getsession.org/blog/session-…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Zodiac has raised a $650k angel round.
We’re building the operating system for organizations managing assets and operations onchain.
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Such a great feeling getting a shoutout on the livestream that just ended! 🥹🔥
Interfold Board started as a small POC. I remember sending a DM to @ctrlc03 about the idea, and he was super nice and appreciated what I was building.
About an hour later, I turned that POC into an actual dashboard, and it’s been continuous updates and improvements ever since.
It’s always special to see something you started as a small experiment grow into something people recognize and appreciate.
You can track everything happening around Interfold through my dashboard and Telegram bot:
📊 Dashboard: interfoldboard.app
🤖 Telegram bot: @interfoldbot
Still building. Still shipping. 🫡
$FOLD
Live now: exploring how The Interfold enables shared computations on private data without exposing the underlying inputs
With @jchaskin22 and @auryn_macmillan, founder of @theInterfold
xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1aKbdErZE…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Live now: exploring how The Interfold enables shared computations on private data without exposing the underlying inputs
With @jchaskin22 and @auryn_macmillan, founder of @theInterfold
xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1aKbdErZE…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
What does confidential coordination actually look like?
Come see it live today.
Interfold demo, hosted by @ethereumfndn.
12 PM ET / 4 PM UTC
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Replying to @theInterfold
@theInterfold v0.19.0 is live! Time to upgrade
1. Stop your node
2. Install the latest release `interfoldup install --version v0.19.0`
3. Reset and validate your node
`interfold node reset-data --yes`
`interfold node validate`
4. Confirm the logs show Ciphernode release is accepted.
github.com/theinterfold/inte…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
First E3, maybe? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qGoNYgag…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
We are live. 𒆙
Tomorrow, we're talking with @RAILGUN_Project about what happens when private state meets confidential computation.
E3s, sealed-bid auctions, privacy primitives, and the design space between them.
9:30 AM ET / 1:30 PM UTC
xitter.cf/i/spaces/1oKMvNeVyVkGQ…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
The internet gave us infrastructure to connect, communicate, and transact. But more and more of what we need to do together now involves information that cannot simply be shared.
Digital voting should produce a public, verifiable result without exposing individual choices. Healthcare researchers should be able to learn from sensitive patient data without exposing the people behind it. Competitors should be able to solve shared problems without giving up the information that keeps them competitive.
Interfold is building infrastructure for that problem: confidential coordination.
It lets independent parties compute together across private inputs without exposing them or relying on trusted hardware. Decryption is distributed across independent operators, and anyone can verify the result.
That opens the door to digital democratic systems with secret ballots, markets built around private positions, and entirely new forms of collective intelligence.
Systems increasingly bring together people, institutions, and agentic systems with different interests and incentives. The internet needs a new coordination model built for that reality.
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
everyone's talking about @theInterfold's $FOLD
but there are 3 kinds of ppl Network Alpha needs right now...
you're probably one of 'em
👇
1/
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Network Alpha is live.
The Interfold is live on mainnet: private inputs, verifiable outputs, no trusted hardware.
Public ciphernode participation and confidential governance are coming next.
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
The FOLD auction settled 523.94 ETH through the Uniswap CCA, exceeding its target by ~31%.
With the auction closed, attention now shifts to the next stages of the launch.
Full results: blog.theinterfold.com/fold-a…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
I'm literally crying right now.
That was the most nerve wracking few days.
Thank you to everyone that showed up to bid on privacy.
Thank you to everyone who has supported over the past few years.
This is just the beginning.
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Chat controls passing today should be a huge wake-up call; a reminder that privacy is a fundamental human right.
Plausible deniability and receipt-freeness are two of the most underrated features enabled by modern cryptography!
This is why we built @theInterfold!
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
What happens when a vote leaves a receipt?
Our latest Multiplayer Privacy recap covers receipt-free voting, coercion resistance, MACI, and the trap of accountability.
With @VitalikButerin @llamaonthebrink and @auryn_macmillan
blog.theinterfold.com/the-ac…
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
A red-eye fireside chat on X.
@VitalikButerin
@llamaonthebrink (@Trueo_)
@auryn_macmillan (Interfold)
What happens when a voter can be forced to prove their vote?
X Space: The Accountability Trap
Mon, June 22 · 04:45 UTC / 12:45 AM ET / 6:45 AM CEST
Set a reminder ↓
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
If you're currently (or thinking about) using @AragonProject and are interesting in private, receipt-free voting. I want to talk with you! DMs open here and on TG.
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
The next phase is controlled external onboarding, beginning with selected infrastructure participants.
Interested in running a ciphernode?
Apply for the genesis operator set: tally.so/r/meJPjo
ctrlc03.eth retweeted
Fun fact, the idea for The Interfold was born out of my unease of being the MACI coordinator for several @clrfund rounds.
MACI's privacy guarantees relay on an honest coordinator assumption. MACI is essentially private voting in a ZK circuit. But in ZK, one must know the data one is making proof about. A compromised coordinator can reveal any inputs because the coordinator must see all of the inputs to generate a proof of their tally.
For those clrfund rounds, I knew that I was not compromised. But would always ask myself "why should anyone else trust me to secure their privacy?", "how can the be confident that I'm not compromised?".
The natural step was to attempt distribute coordinator trust as broadly as possible, without compromising on the other fundamental guarantees that make MACI interesting. This lead us to the combination of ZKPs, FHE, and MPC (threshold cryptography).
The real light-bulb moment was when we realized that voting was just one of a whole class of similar problems; where private inputs from many parties are aggregated to produce some public output.
This is what ultimately lead us to build @theInterfold.
More people should know about the Interfold.
It's basically what I've been yelling at people to build with the MACI ideas ( ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-… ) for almost a decade, and now it exists, in a generalized form.
The idea is: a privacy protocol optimized for things like voting (and other use cases eg. secret-ballot auctions). The mechanism generates a threshold encryption key, and people send in their votes onchain, using a ZKP to prove eligibility. An arbitrary computation on the votes gets run inside FHE, and then threshold-decrypted.
From what I can tell (the docs are good docs.theinterfold.com/CRISP/… ), it gets pretty optimal security guarantees:
* Voter anonymity can be made unconditional if eligibility is proven with ZK-SNARKs
* Censorship resistance is guaranteed by ethereum (votes can be posted directly onchain, and there's a proof that all posted votes are taking into account)
* The correctness of the outputted result can be ensured via ZK over FHE
* Liveness and coercion resistance depend on M-of-N honesty; unavoidable given present-day technology
The main limitation is that today "ZK over FHE" is only properly available for additive vote tallying, as it's too expensive for computations that involve multiplication or other more complicated manipulation at the moment. There's work in progress on slashing-based / optimistic computation for such situations.
(And of course ideally in the long term we'd figure out obfuscation so you can get rid of the M-of-N committees😃)


















