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