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Alan Chiu is CEO and Co-Founder of Enya.ai, a privacy-focused blockchain network. He works on addressing privacy problems in blockchain and has partnered with OMG network to create Boba.
1Interview
2021First on the show
Aug 2021Latest appearance
18 minOn camera
17:38
Latest interview · Aug 24, 2021Alan Chiu on Enya.ai's privacy focused blockchain networkWatch the episode →
In their own words
“We're not talking about a zero or one black and white situation where we don't want to share any data or we share everything completely. Oftentimes it's helpful to have selective data sharing and selective data privacy.”
Key points from the latest interview
- Enya.ai focuses on making advanced cryptographic techniques like secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption accessible to developers building privacy-first applications.
- Public blockchains leak sensitive information such as trade order flow in DeFi, which malicious actors exploit for rent-seeking profits at users' expense.
- Enya's edge-based secure computation approach allows users to keep sensitive data on personal devices while maintaining selective control over what operations applications can perform.
- The OMG Network partnership created OMGX, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 that enables hybrid compute by running computationally intensive algorithms off-chain on infrastructure like AWS Lambda.
- Secure multi-party computation enables multiple parties with individual data to compute collective results without sharing underlying information with each other.