Airchains Partners with Zama to Bring FHE Confidentiality to dApps on Ethereum and Beyond
Airchains is thrilled to announce a long-term partnership with Zama to bring the latest Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) innovations to decentralized applications on Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos. Zama will become the sole FHE layer in Airchains’ modular stack, allowing developers to build privacy-first dApps that boast end-to-end encryption, in addition to zero-knowledge proof verification.
The partnership goes beyond Zama’s newly announced fhEVM coprocessor — which allows developers to create confidential dApps on any EVM chain. With the Airchains framework, it will be possible for developers to build dApps with the same confidentiality on SVM (Solana) and CosmWasm (Cosmos) chains as well.
Powered by Zama, Airchains will be able to bring FHE to a broader developer base across the EVM, SVM, and CosmWasm, as they will integrate Zama’s state-of-the-art FHE technology into its multichain framework. In essence, FHE makes it possible to perform computations on encrypted data, without needing to decrypt it, and it is sometimes called the “holy grail of cryptography.”
With this partnership, developers will be able to build dApps on Airchains with multidimensional privacy tailored to their use case, starting with zkFHE (Zero Knowledge Fully Homomorphic Encryption). This will make privacy and confidentiality accessible to all — which is ideal for enterprises and institutions looking to bring highly sensitive data onchain.
Together, the two teams will also share knowledge and insights to continue innovating the FHE layer of the modular blockchain stack, as well as educating the developer community on what is possible with FHE. From confidential tokens that manage employee payroll with end-to-end encryption, to financial institutions that would like to offer RWAs to clients where their identities and transactions remain private, the practical use cases of FHE span every industry.
“We’re so excited to partner with Zama to help bring FHE cryptography to the world. Our modular stack pairs perfectly with Zama’s FHE solutions, giving developers end-to-end encryption for real-world use cases that require privacy and confidentiality. We look forward to a continued collaboration with the Zama team as we focus on expanding FHE’s reach across the blockchain landscape.”
-Ankur Rakhi Sinha, CEO and Co-founder of Airchains
About Zama: Encrypting the Internet End-to-End
Zama is an open source cryptography company building state-of-the-art FHE solutions to protect privacy in blockchain and AI. Their technology enables a broad range of use cases, from confidential smart contracts to encrypted machine learning and privacy-preserving cloud applications. Zama was founded by Dr. Pascal Paillier and Dr. Rand Hindi, and has the largest research team in homomorphic encryption.
Today, Zama offers a robust suite of open source FHE libraries and tools. Anyone, from solo developers to large enterprises, can build applications that deliver out-of-the-box, end-to-end encryption and confidentiality to their users.
Since inception, Zama has improved the speed of its FHE scheme by a factor of 20x, and is on track to reach 100x soon. This milestone will unlock critical confidential blockchain and AI use cases. In addition, the Zama team is developing dedicated FHE hardware accelerators that will be capable of encrypting Large Language Models (LLMs).
Joining Forces: Airchains powered by Zama
The Airchains ZK Stack is a dynamic framework that provides developers with a wide array of execution environments to choose from when building confidential dApps, including the EVM (Ethereum), SVM (Solana), and CosmWasm (Cosmos). With this partnership, developers will be able to deploy zkFHE on any of these execution layers, tailored to their use case.
Powered by Zama, Airchains aims to harness the best of both teams’ technology and knowledge so that developers, enterprises, and institutions can build fully encrypted and scalable dApps with the confidentiality they require.
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