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PaperCryptographyJune 10, 2026

The quiet trick that lets a cloud server run a program it cannot read

If you have ever sent a sensitive document to a cloud service, you know the small chill of handing over your data. Fully homomorphic encryption is the idea that says you should not have to. A server with a fully homomorphic scheme can run any program on your encrypted data. It sh…

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PaperBlockchainJune 8, 2026

Cutting the bridge bill by 1000x: how BitVM3 reopens trust-minimized Bitcoin bridging

For most of Bitcoin's history, the cleanest way to move BTC into a smart-contract environment was to hand it to a federation. Lock BTC, mint a wrapped version, trust a multisig of well-known operators not to collude. That model is now under quiet, sustained pressure. Robin Linus …

InfoCryptographyJune 8, 2026

Let's Encrypt's Post-Quantum Plan: Merkle Tree Certificates, Explained

For most of the last decade, the post-quantum conversation has been about encryption. The threat model was simple: record TLS traffic today, decrypt it later when a cryptographically relevant quantum computer shows up. That meant the priority was swapping out key exchange, not si…

PaperCryptographyJune 7, 2026

Satoshi's Quiet Revolution: The 9-Page Paper That Killed the Trusted Third Party

In late May 2026, a thread on r/Bitcoin asked members how long they had waited before actually reading the original whitepaper. The answers revealed a truth the crypto industry has long tried to paper over: most people bought the asset long before they understood the engineering.…

InfoBlockchainJune 5, 2026

The 200-byte proof that lets a rollup inherit Ethereum's security

If you have sent a transaction on zkSync, Scroll, Polygon zkEVM, Linea, or Starknet, you have used Groth16. The proof attached to the batch of L2 transactions you signed is a Groth16 SNARK, and the gas the rollup pays to verify it on L1 is the same roughly 200,000 gas that every …

PaperCryptographyMay 18, 2026

A privacy switch for the world's oldest public ledger

Bitcoin has been a public ledger for seventeen years. Every payment you have ever received has a sender, a receiver, and an amount attached to it, and anyone with a block explorer can read them. That property is a feature when the goal is replacing trust in banks with trust in cr…

GuideCryptographyApril 25, 2026

Nova folding with nova-snark: a beginner's guide

Picture this: your program takes one million sequential steps to finish. Maybe it is a blockchain, a smart contract, or a scientific simulation. Now someone asks you: "How do I know it ran correctly?" You could ask them to re-run the whole thing. That defeats the purpose. They wo…