Dear community,

We are excited to announce that the IEEE P2830 standard, targeting shared machine learning, has progressed to the ballot stage of the IEEE Standard Association (SA) Standard Development Process. The standard defines the technique framework and details of trusted execution environment-based shared machine learning, a branch of privacy-preserving computation.

Alibaba initiated the submission, which was drafted in cooperation with representatives from ARPA, Baidu, Lenovo Group, Shanghai Fudata, Zhejiang University, Megvii Technology, and the China Electronic Standardization Institute.

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), is the world’s largest technical professional organization, with the goal of promoting high-quality…

Dear ARPA community,

To ensure that the ARPA community is well-informed on the team’s latest improvement, we update ARPA’s development dynamics and progress through our monthly report. Thank you all for your support!

This is a look back at April. Enjoy!

01 ARPA Development Dynamics & Technology Progress

MPC

1. Revisited aggregatable BLS signature and researched the feasibility of using BLS as randomness generator
2. Drafted the challenges and prospects section of privacy-preserving computation whitepaper
3. Participated in the resolution of the comments of IEEE Shared Machine Learning Standard
4. Researched in public-keyed cryptographic hash function and its comparison with signature

DeFi

1. Researched Ethereum nodes data acquirement, data cleaning, data aggregation
2. …

Dear community,

Today we share with you a piece of exciting news: ARPA codebase is now fully open-sourced. You can view the development progress of ARPA on GitLab, discuss and research multiparty privacy-preserving computing technologies with us. We strive for a digital world where privacy is protected, and data is securely shared.

After 3 years of extensive research and engineering, from prototypes to MPC mainnet, we have accumulated valuable knowledge of cryptography and insights into the Blockchain industry. Now we are combining our specialties in MPC with a vision of Blockchain 3.0, aiming to deliver infrastructures that will facilitate mass…

Dear community,

We’re thrilled to announce our technical partnership with Litentry.

Litentry is a cross-chain identity aggregation protocol that features a Substrate-built network, mobile app and identity-related tools. The protocol enables identity linking across different networks and facilitates decentralization and transparency in identity credit computation.

What is MPC?

Multi-party computation (MPC or SMPC) is a cryptographic protocol that distributes a computation process across multiple parties, where no single party can view the data of others. In other words, MPC allows the joint analysis of data without sharing them.

The synergy of DID and MPC

ARPA’s MPC protocol creates ways for multiple entities to collaboratively analyze data and extract data…

We are excited to share with our community that the ARPA Syrup Pool is officially open on PancakeSwap on Apr 10th, at 3 PM UTC+8!

In March 2021, ARPA (BEP-20) went live on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) network, deposit&withdrawal then opened in April, enabling ARPA to interact with DApps on BSC and freely exchange with its ecological coins. As the first billion-dollar project on Binance Smart Chain, PancakeSwap is the most talked-about DEX in town. With PancakeSwap’s rising popularity and whooping DeFi volumes, the ARPA team believes that this will be another step towards our explorations in the BSC…

Dear community,

We are excited to announce that ARPA secure computation nodes are now live on Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace.

ARPA secure computation nodes on AWS provide an engine for secure computation, thanks to ARPA’s blockchain-based multi-party computation network. Users can process their customized application or circuit upon this in a secure computation method. ARPA mainnet cryptographically enables private smart contracts, unprecedented data-at-use privacy protection, as well as scalable computational sharding.

By deploying our one-click full-functionality computation node on AWS, users can process their customized applications or circuits in a secure computation method. …

Dear community and ARPA supporters:

ARPA foundation has conducted a round of quarterly token burn as we mentioned in the earlier roadmap update. 6,000,000 ARPA tokens were burnt in this round, worth about $686,000 at the current price. The amount burnt has been sent to the black hole address shown below.

By the end of this round of token burn, the total amount of ARPA burnt adds up to 137,000,000, accounting for 13.7% of the circulation supply(1,000,000,000), 6.85% of the total supply(2,000,000,000), worth around $16,000,000 USD as of now.

Black hole address:

0x168115cf806009f8984f47c90033e9a9705b4f65

This round of quartly token burn was…

Dear ARPA community,

To ensure that the ARPA community is well-informed on the team’s latest improvement, we update ARPA’s development dynamics and progress through our monthly report. Thank you all for your support!

This is a look back at March. Enjoy!

01 ARPA Development Dynamics & Technology Progress

MPC

1. Tested large-scale private regression computation on tumor genetic dataset
2. Integrated specific 2-party PSI module into ARPA computation platform
3. Participated in the drafting of privacy-preserving computation whitepaper
4. Surveyed on possible applications of on-chain randomness

DeFi

1. Researched Chainlink VRF service
2. Researched solution to VRF on layer2 based on threshold signatures
3. Maintained ARPA official website
4. Optimized the frontend development pipeline
5. Investigated…