Cryptography

The mathematical foundations: signatures, commitments, MPC, FHE, and beyond.

Cryptography Machine Learning Blockchain

FHE Hits Mainnet: What Private On-Chain Compute Actually Costs

FHE left the lab: confidential ERC-7984 tokens settle on Ethereum for ~$0.09 in gas, with 48,000 transfers since December. We dissect a live encrypted transaction, the 13-node MPC committee underneath, and why encrypted inference is still 11 seconds per token.

Jun 12, 2026 9 min read ⬢ interactive

Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning Cryptography

zkML in 2026: The State of Verifiable Inference

Zero-knowledge proofs promised to make machine learning trustless. A field survey of where zkML actually stands — proving systems, quantization tradeoffs, and what's deployable today.

May 28, 2026 3 min read ⬢ interactive