Florian Liss

BREAKING! We are proud to announce our $13.5MM raise, led by @PanteraCapital, with Jump, Lightspeed, Big Brain and more visionary partners. We’re making @solana inevitable with institutional-grade certainty, guaranteed transaction inclusion and advanced scheduling. Here’s how:

Internet capital markets require confidentiality. Today, we're excited to introduce the development of Confidential SPL Token — a unified standard merging core SPL programs to bring native confidentiality to @solana. The same SPL experience — now encrypted. ↓↓↓

I'm 24. I went from studying law to: - building the #1 productivity app on the App Store, - raising millions for Arcium, - teaching myself cryptography to build encrypted computing, - acquiring our largest US competitor. All without finishing a single degree. Here is my story 👇

Massive pension funds move billions in stocks daily using Goldman’s dark pools. Hidden from prying eyes. But there's a catch — Goldman itself can see and potentially front-run every trade. This is the digital world's paradox: We need privacy, but current solutions force us to trust someone with our secrets. We have tried to solve it. We tried building digital vaults (TEEs) right into computer chips. Sounds great until you realise hackers can "hear" secrets by listening to the chip's power usage - like a safecracker with a stethoscope. AMD's latest vault was cracked for just $10. We tried using zero-knowledge proofs. Mathematical magic that proves you know a secret without revealing it. Perfect for verifying things, but useless when multiple parties need to actively work with encrypted data. Then came fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). It lets computers work directly with encrypted data - amazing in theory. The problem? It's like driving a car through molasses. A simple calculation takes seconds. @arcium aims to solve the puzzle differently. Instead of making single computers ultra-secure or accepting massive slowdowns, they created a network where security emerges from collaboration. Your data is split into meaningless fragments across multiple computers. As long as just ONE computer stays honest, your secrets remain safe. Even if 99/100 try to peek. And it is fast. By using mathematical shortcuts and parallel processing, they made privacy-preserving computation 10,000x faster than FHE. What does this mean in practice? • DeFi can execute trades privately, killing front-running • Hospitals can train AI on shared patient data without exposing records • Companies can analyse joint datasets while keeping proprietary info secret If you are a developer, you can add this enterprise-grade privacy with a single line of code. No PhD in cryptography required. This has the potential to be the foundation for a truly private digital economy. One where we can work with sensitive data without exposing it. Where "trust" comes from mathematics, not promises. @desh_saurabh dove deep into Arcium to understand how encrypted computing is getting practical.

Arcium in 1000 words. ☂️👇📚 arcium.com/articles/arciu…

📢 Calling all $CLOUD men and women. 📢 WE NEED YOU, TO VOTE! Link: research.sanctum.so/t/proposal-com… Whether you are Sanctum Curious, Earnest or Mercernary, we want your thoughts on WHO should be in the TOP 10. Be it an LST, be it a dAPP, Analytics Tool or Memes. We need YOU, to VOTE. 🌍 THE EARNEST SHALL BUILD OUR NEW WORLD ☁️ SANCTUM ALIGNED ☁️