Yannik Schrade

I sat down with @TuckerCarlson to talk about Privacy, Encryption, and the future I'm building with Arcium. The largest political show in the world. The biggest podcast on privacy in history.

@hokage_DAO gMPC ☂️

@yrschrade gMPC ☂️

With encryption we're opening up the portal to a different realm. No one can follow you into that encrypted realm. With encrypted execution we make this encrypted realm the most powerful it can be. A realm where information can interact without anyone seeing it.

@aberamaaa indeed

@yrschrade Arcium offers the key ☂️

@Delphi_Digital calling this private inference is one of the biggest larps of this space lmao

@maxdesalle You would think so but lately there’s folks that don’t even go as far as using TEEs. Literally no privacy tech at all, just centralization. Frightening stuff tbf

@yrschrade *cough* TEEs *cough*

The biggest threat to on-chain privacy isn’t regulation. It’s influential larpers promoting centralized systems with zero real privacy guarantees as "privacy tech". Too much snake oil. Too little math.

@Professor_XN many such cases

@yrschrade Are we talking about a wallet we all know about or is there something we’re missing?

You can literally shield your entire financial life in seconds with Umbra. No need for a seperate chain. No need to buy into ponzinomics. It has never been easier.

Not all hope is yet lost for the UK. @rkbaggs is the voice for privacy in the UK. I just sat down with him to discuss the future of Privacy.

👁‍🗨Not Dead Yet | S1E6 — Yannik Schrade Privacy is finally on the main stage. This isn’t merely an incidental trend, however; it’s necessary. The rise in interest was exemplified recently when our industry's own @yrschrade went on @TuckerCarlson's podcast to discuss the fall of privacy and the war to regain it. The episode, quite rightly, went viral. Yannik is the CEO and co-founder of @Arcium and is dedicating his life and career to creating tools that strengthen the cypherpunk values we all hold dear. So, this week, @rkbaggs is joined by Yannik in the season finale of Not Dead Yet. Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro 02:03 – Tucker Carlson and the privacy narrative 06:08 – That Ring advert and what is leading people to privacy 10:28 – Why is personal data so valuable? 14:28 – Are AI becoming ethical arbiters? 19:57 – Is convenience the enemy of privacy? 22:01 – The EU and the UK’s privacy woes 31:30 – Why is decentralization important to privacy? 35:28 – With data so valuable, how can we make data privacy the norm? 37:59 – How we make privacy tools standard practice 40:12 – Tornado Cash and the regulatory threat to privacy 46:46 – Which industries would benefit the most from privacy? 49:19 – “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” 55:30 – What are some common privacy mistakes and 57:25 – Are you optimistic about the future of privacy?

@VitalikButerin @garious14 @Anthropic

It will significantly increase my opinion of @Anthropic if they do not back down, and honorably eat the consequences. (For those who are not aware, so far they have been maintaining the two red lines of "no fully autonomous weapons" and "no mass surveillance of Americans". Actually a very conservative and limited posture, it's not even anti-military. IMO fully autonomous weapons and mass privacy violation are two things we all want less of, so in my ideal world anyone working on those things gets access to the same open-weights LLMs as everyone else, and exactly nothing on top of that. Of course we won't get anywhere close to that world, but if we get even 10% closer to that world that's good, and if we get 10% further that's bad) CC @DarioAmodei firefly.social/post/bsky/pv7f…

@NEARProtocol Bearish Near:

Finally, NEAR Private Shard—now live: -Validators run inside TEEs -Private accounts + contracts live inside TEEs, with public metadata -Users access state via viewing keys Public + private state can coexist, with a privacy boundary via a TEE. A big unlock for NEAR Intents 👀

Today at NEARCON, @BowenWang18 unveiled Nightshade 3.0 - the next era of NEAR Protocol. NEAR today: 5+ years on mainnet, 100% uptime, fully sharded, 600ms block time, 1.2s finality, 1M TPS benchmark achieved. What's next: a fundamental architectural upgrade 🧵

@btwphones lol MPC like we’ve built it with Arcium can help with that based on the concrete application

@yrschrade I mean unless one loses one’s keys…

I’ve never heard anyone say: I wish I didn’t encrypt. I wish I didn’t keep this private.

The core requirement for privacy to take off is – and has always been – normie friendliness. Convenience has in the past been the biggest enemy of privacy. This changes now.

@sjdedic privacy/acc

Even though it might not come as a huge surprise, it still hits different when you see it visualized how our industry has performed over the last 12 months. All sectors are down bad across the board. Some verticals like data availability, Bitcoin ecosystem projects or gaming have even almost completely evaporated out of existence. And then there's privacy, which hasn't just outperformed the entire industry, but is up a staggering 216%, outperforming benchmarks like Bitcoin by roughly 7x. Whether this is driven by cypherpunks demanding more privacy in a world that's increasingly going off the rails, or simply the need for programmable privacy to fuel the institutional supercycle that's already underway - one thing is clear: Privacy has never been more needed than today. And in hindsight, it will be one of those painfully obvious verticals you really shouldn't have slept on, just like stablecoins, prediction markets etc. This is an @Arcium bull tweet btw.

@jswihart onward!

Spent a couple hours with @yrschrade today. A new generation of cypherpunks are here. Inspiring. No retreat. All in. Relentless. Onward.

@unusual_whales Here I actually discuss solutions with Tucker Carlson:

"There will be no privacy... all transactions will be known... and if you're politically disfavored, you could be shut off," Ray Dalio has said.