gubsheep is the founder of the 0xPARC Foundation and the field of Programmable Cryptography. He previously created Dark Forest, the first non-cryptocurrency application of zkSNARKs, and supported applied zero-knowledge R&D and ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation.

gubsheep

In the closing panel of Devcon 7 SEA, Nicholas Paul from The Long Now Foundation, Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, and Justin Glibert and Gubsheep (Brian Gu) from 0xPARC discussed the philosophy of “subtraction” in organizational design, emphasizing how creating space by letting go fosters innovation and long-term thinking, the interplay between technology and culture within Ethereum.

Main Stage

Leading Devcon and Devconnect teams with Ethereum Foundation

Skylar

Aya Miyaguchi

Justin Glibert

Nicholas thinks about thinking. He is currently researching and realizing a new project focused on the ‘thinking’ part of ‘long-term thinking’. Before this, Nicholas helped run The Long Now Foundation—the storied nonprofit fostering long-term thinking at the timescale of 10,000 years—where he served as both Director of Development and Director of Strategy for many years. His background spans systems engineering and philosophy. He is currently a fellow at The Institute in San Francisco.

Nicholas Paul

Closing Ceremonies: Devcon Decade 0

The Programmable Cryptography CLS hosts a series of talks exploring how advanced cryptography can reshape digital infrastructure beyond blockchain and trust infrastructure. 
SCHEDULE: 10:00–10:20 AM, Justin Glibert / 10:20–10:45 AM, Vitalik Buterin / 10:45–11:10 AM, Albert Ni / 11:10–11:35 AM, Barry Whitehat / 11:35 AM–12:00 PM gubsheep

Breakout 3

Barry

I work on understanding what Ethereum is, and realizing what it can become.

Albert Ni

Vitalik Buterin

[CLS] Programmable Cryptography

A Hallucinated Server is a virtual server whose execution is cryptographically simulated by users, using "multiplayer" privacy technologies like multi-party computation or fully homomorphic encryption. Today, thanks to recent advancements in MPC and FHE, we have the technology to build the first fully Turing-complete hallucinated servers. We discuss the underlying technologies, and how we've used them to build several proof-of-concept applications.

Stage 6

How To Hallucinate A Server

Programmable Cryptography is a "second generation" of cryptographic primitives - primitives that allow arbitrary programs to be executed "inside of" or "on top of" cryptographic objects. Programmable cryptography provides three key affordances that complement and amplify the affordances of Ethereum--verifiability, confidentiality, and non-interactivity. We'll discuss how these technologies can reshape the Internet over the next 50 years.

Keynote: Programmable Cryptography and Ethereum

Privacy is an unsolved challenge for blockchains and decentralized systems. ZK cryptography gets us there partially, but not all the way. ZK enables “single-player private state,” and certain other kinds of privacy are impossible to realize with ZKPs alone. Panelists, the cryptography library devs, infrastructure builders, and application devs who have recently started to explore programmable encryption will discuss MP-FHE as one such tool for achieving more general privacy capabilities.

Veronica currently works with 0xPARC on various programmable cryptography applications. Previously, Veronica was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase.

Veronica Zheng

Currently working at PSE (EF).
I worked for two years on the zkEVM and I'm currently doing research and exploration in multiparty FHE

Eduard Sanou

Inventing new cryptographic primitives at phantom.zone for a safe & resilient future. Working on new - encrypted, joint - computational mediums that are independent of the operating substrate. All-in open source!

Janmajaya Mall

Multi-Party FHE for Multi-Player Privacy

In this session, we will break down the FHE game Frogzone, which required advancements at every layer of the cryptographic software stack: cryptography libraries and tooling, circuits, software infrastructure, and even DevOps. We will also cover additional use cases for FHE at a technical level.

Riley Wong (they/them) is the Principal of Emergent Research, investigating privacy, governance, and data. Interests include applied cryptography, consent interfaces, p2p networks, and cooperative infrastructure. Their work is rooted in community practice and guided by collaborative work in solidarity economies, public goods and the commons, and interdependence. They have previous lives in machine learning, investigative journalism, and community organizing and are based in NYC.

riley wong (they/them)

Han Jian

Multi-Party Fully Homomorphic Encryption (MP-FHE) in Practice

One of the core themes of this panel is how Programmable Cryptography synergizes with Ethereum. Panelists will discuss questions such as ''Why have we not been able to do everything we've wanted with Ethereum?'' and ''Why have certain kinds of applications - from decentralized social to decentralized games to decentralized finance - not been able to reach their full potential with only consensus technology?''