Before building wireless networks (actually less than six months before first building Andrena with Princeton) I got completely sucked into cryptography because of homomorphic encryption. Funny enough, I wanted to build houseless poker and blackjack. Thankfully @yrschrade and the @ArciumHQ team have a much better vision than I did. I'd like to think there's a moment in everyone's cryptography journey where public key cryptography just clicks. You see its elegance and realize why the Internet relies on it, how powerful it is for securely sharing data. For me, the work Arcium is doing with FHE, ZKPs, secure MPC + more, feels like that next elegant leap in cryptography. If public key gave us scalable encrypted data sharing, then these techniques are the logical next step -- securely working on encrypted data. This tech is so foundational for the future of a better, decentralized Internet that fewer things are as important. Arcium's technique towards building the encrypted supercomputer for the world finds itself at this interestinct intersection of computational demand, practicality, and necessity. It truly is an honor to help them build this vision with the Black Box. And I'm stoked to see a world where your HTTPS lock is upgraded to a purple Arcium lock that lets you know your data never left your device.