ARPA Monthly Report | May Progress Review
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 May. Enjoy!
01 ARPA Development Dynamics & Technology Progress
- Revisited and referred on other existing DKG protocols
- Formalized our DKG protocol and started writing litepaper
- Prototyped RandCast BLS component
02 Community, Marketing & Listings
A Random Walk Along Blockchain Avenue | Section 4
On May 16th, ARPA posted the Section 4: Advancement & Future Pillars of its series of knowledge-sharing articles: A Random Walk Along Blockchain Avenue. Let’s look back to 2020 when the industry began to see mass iterations of existing concepts, technologies and applications to drive it closer to a decentralized utopia. Hope you enjoy the last section of this reading series:
ARPA Listed in Top Projects with Fully Diluted Market Cap of $50M — $100M by CryptoDep
On May 23rd, ARPA was listed in the “Top Projects with Fully Diluted Market Cap of $50M — $100M” by CryptoDep. We appreciate your love and support! More to come!
CryptoMeina x Felix Xu: ARPA, the myth of being crypto native, investing in Bear Market
On May 20th, Felix Xu, the CEO and co-founder of ARPA, interviewed with CryptoMeina. Throughout the interview, Felix gave a high-level overview of ARPA and explained why we are determined to empower web 3 creators and builders. Felix also touched on the differences between web 2 and web 3, investment tips on the current market condition, and shared his NFT thesis and personal fun facts. Watch the full conversation here:
A Random Walk Along Blockchain Avenue | Section 3
On May 16th, ARPA posted the Section 3: Crypto Natives & Enlightening Outsiders of its series of knowledge-sharing articles: A Random Walk Along Blockchain Avenue. Looking back, the year of 2018 and the first half of 2019 were rather bearish for the crypto market. End-2017 and early-2018 saw the Bitcoin price surged from about $7,000 to over $19,000 within a month and swiftly plunged back to a little of $7,000 within almost the same time, if not shorter. ICO mania in 2017 inarguably contributed to the dramatic up and down. However, while the secondary market got hit, innovations in the blockchain universe didn’t tumble. In contrast, several seeds that in near future grow into towering trees were sowed in 2018 and 2019. In this section, let us walk you through the milestones of a little bit bumpy but wide road paved in 2018. Enjoy!
Hackernoon | Redefining Privacy and Data Ownership: An Interview with ARPA Founder, Felix Xu
On May 10th, Hackernoon featured an interview with Felix Xu, the co-founder and CEO of ARPA, and Dan Stein, the editor at the Startup Thread. The conversation covered broad topics from Felix’s professional experience and his blockchain journey, insight on data utility and ownership, the NFT ecosystem and creators’ economy, to Felix’s view on the current market condition and the next steps for ARPA. Enjoy the whole context here:
https://hackernoon.com/redefining-privacy-and-data-ownership-an-interview-with-arpa-founder-felix-xu
ARPA’s Affiliate Partner Program with Travala.com
As summer is approaching, ARPA shared its Affiliate Partner Program with Travala.com to give our community the unique opportunity to connect with one of the leading accommodation booking platforms with over 2,000,000 properties in 230 countries worldwide. Book over 3 million travel products with $ARPA on Travala.com and begin earning a 5% commission on accommodation bookings by joining our affiliate program here:
ARPA Integrated on E-Commerce Platform Uquid as Payment Method
On May 3rd, ARPA announced its strategic partnership with Uquid, a pioneering crypto e-commerce platform utilizing DeFi features and convenient payment solutions, to integrate ARPA token on Uquid’s shopping platform. The integration will allow ARPA token holders to purchase over 40 million products and services across over 150 countries and regions. ARPA token holders can use their holdings to pay utility bills, shop for real-life goods like groceries, as well as virtual merchandise like online game cards.
Learn more about this partnership here:
Announcement also available on Yahoo Finance:
ARPA Listed on Upbit
On May 3rd, ARPA was listed on Upbit, the largest digital asset exchange in Korea, with BTC trading pair. ARPA is now available to Korean users and supporters via Upbit, Bithumb, Binance, Coinone, Kucoin, Gate.io, etc. We strive to make $ARPA accessible to anyone, anywhere, with the best-in-class liquidity. Stay tuned!
Read more details:
https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=2624
ARPA & Bella Meet Up | Interview between Co-Founder Yemu Xu and Kripto Kurdu
An interview between ARPA’s Co-Founder Yemu Xu and Kripto Kurdu from our recent ARPA & Bella Istanbul Meet Up was released on May 1st. We had so much fun linking up with our Turkish community and building meaningful relationships from this fantastic event!
Enjoy this interview here(English subtitle is available):
About ARPA
ARPA is a blockchain-based solution for privacy-preserving computation, enabled by Multi-Party Computation (“MPC”). Founded in April 2018, the goal of ARPA is to separate data utility from ownership and enable data renting. ARPA’s MPC protocol creates ways for multiple entities to collaboratively analyze data and extract data synergies while keeping each party’s data input private and secure. ARPA allows secret sharing of private data, and the correctness of computation is verifiable using the information-theoretic Message Authentication Code (MAC).
Developers can build privacy-preserving dApps on blockchains compatible with ARPA. Some immediate use cases include: credit anti-fraud, secure data wallet, precision marketing, joint AI model training, key management systems, etc. For example, banks using the ARPA network can share their credit blacklist for risk management purposes without exposing their customer data or privacy.
Team members have worked at leading institutions such as Google, Amazon, Huawei, Fosun, Tsinghua University, Fidelity Investments. ARPA is currently assisting the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology in setting the national standard for secure multi-party computation. ARPA is a corporate member of MPC Alliance and IEEE and is in partnership with fortune 500 companies to implement proofs-of-concept and MPC products. In 2019, ARPA was named the Top 10 most innovative blockchain companies in China by China Enterprise News and China Software Industry Association.
For more information about ARPA or to join our team, please contact us at about@arpachain.io.
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