Ep 30- The Encrypted Supercomputer with Yannik from Arcium

In this episode, Yannik Schrade, CEO of Arcium, explains how they're building an encrypted supercomputer to bring privacy to both Web2 and Web3. We explore:

• The journey from creating one of the world's most downloaded iPad apps to building privacy infrastructure

• Why current privacy solutions like trusted hardware and zero-knowledge proofs aren't enough

• How Arcium achieves efficient private computation through pre-computed multiplications and oblivious data structures

• The future of private AI - from confidential training to trustless inference

• Why privacy should be infrastructure, not a product

• The path to bringing institutional players into DeFi through privacy

• How Arcium could enable everything from dark pools to private gaming

Timestamps -

00:00 Introduction to Web3 and Privacy

02:54 The Journey from Law to Crypto

05:50 Building Elusive: On-Chain Transactional Privacy

09:06 The Encrypted Supercomputer

11:57 AI's Role in Crypto and User Experience

14:51 Legacy Approach to Privacy Enhancing Technologies

18:05 Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Their Limitations

20:53 The Future of Privacy in DeFi and Healthcare

23:47 Secure Multi-Party Computation: A New Paradigm

27:12 Confidential Computing and Trust Models

32:32 Transforming Encrypted Data into Random Values

34:27 Understanding Arcium's Position in the Tech Stack

36:54 Arcium as an Encrypted Supercomputer

38:52 Efficiency of Secure Multi-Party Computation

41:47 Flexibility and Oblivious Data Structures in MPC

44:11 Selective Disclosure and Composability in Confidential Computing

46:03 Arcium's Autonomous Network and Accountability Protocols

49:55 AI Agents and Trust in Decision-Making

52:45 Responsible AI and Explainability

56:48 Market Landscape and Use Cases for Arcium

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