May 2020

Want to talk about the security of your blockchain project?

In March, we gave two talks on ZKAPs — zero knowledge access passes.

What are ZKAPs? The use of ZKAPs helps the maintain privacy-preserving payments. This anonymous, token-based authorization protocol based on Privacy Pass helps facilitate an online exchange of value while disconnecting the payment and service data that is gathered on customers.

We created ZKAPs to better address the access-control issue in Tahoe-LAFS for the development of PrivateStorage, however we see many possibilities for the use of ZKAPs to help protect user privacy in other services that need to accept online payments.

On April 30th, we hosted Security Sessions — a free webinar on the security of blockchain projects. 

After many conversations with tech leaders who want to prioritize security for their projects, we were inspired to offer an educational session about security audits and the importance of security to the ecosystem in general.

What we’re reading in Paper Club:  OpenPrivacy / Towards Anonymous Prepaid Services  (Similar to a book club, our “Paper Club” is a periodic meeting where we discuss a paper as a team. Sometimes it's a new paper, sometimes an older one.)

Virtual water cooler time: Even though we're already a remote-first team, with all the sudden changes in the world we found ourselves wanting to connect, share, assess, analyze and discuss events. So, we came up with scheduling an "Open Chat" across various time zones, where team members can jump in, say hi and partake in some non-work related banter. What are some things your team is doing to stay connected?