211: Aleph Zero with Matthew Niemerg

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D., is the founder and president of <a href="https://alephzero.org/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Aleph Zero</a>— a Swiss non-profit offering scalable plug-and-play privacy solution leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Mathew is also a professor in Mathematics in the area of numerical algebraic geometry, a Simons-Berkeley Fellow, and an IBM Center of Excellence Fellow in High-Performance Computing.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Aleph Zero's Liminal is the first privacy solution to combine zk-SNARKs and sMPC in combination. Collectively, these tools work to cancel out the other's drawbacks. zk-SNARKs allow for basic transfers but do not allow multi-user interactions. Whereas sMPC can be prohibitively slow on its own but allows for multiple participants. Merged, they create the basis for Liminal— a fast, secure, and highly private framework from which users can gain true privacy and where developers can stage Web 3.0 projects. </span></p>