Research & design studio building cryptography for human connection 💫
Based in United States
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Our work with consumer-focused private set intersection has been featured in Berkeley's MPC deployments tracker! Check out the writeup and other MPC projects here: mpc.cs.berkeley.edu/posts/Cu…
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Trinity description: cursive.team/trinity, a combination of PLONK + Garbled Circuits + KZG Witness Encryption
mpc-framework team: mpc.pse.dev/
Trinity repo: github.com/privacy-scaling-e…
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Exciting news: an implementation of our novel 2PC scheme Trinity is now open sourced! The development is being led by @yanis_mezn, and supported by @PrivacyScaling as part of their mpc-framework team.
Links to repo & description in 🧵
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ART IN THE MACHINE, Devcon Museum Clip #2
@aisconnolly from @TACEO_IO covers her art piece, "Whispers of Privacy: MPC Through the Years". It celebrates the people & papers behind pioneering results in multi-party computation. Full museum video is in 🧵!
Amazingly, two featured researchers -- Don Beaver and Jens Groth -- happened to stop by and see the exhibit in person!
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ART IN THE MACHINE, part 4.
The crown jewel of our art-infused technology experiences was curating Cryptographic Connections, a museum exhibition featured at @EFDevcon SEA.
Check out this fantastic mini-documentary of the event, filmed & edited by AV (instagram.com/anshvarma)!
Exhibition description:
Cryptographic Connections explored the past, present, and future of how cryptography has been used to bring humans closer together. It featured works from a myriad of artists & technologists, ranging from abstract interpretations to cutting-edge demonstrations.
Exhibition contributors:
Aisling Connolly @aisconnolly, Andrew Miller @socrates1024, Aayush Gupta @yush_g, Gordon Berger @GordonBergerArt, io @memesamsara, Justin Melillo @justinmmelillo, Nico Ikeda @0xnicoshark, Micah Fitch @micahscopes, Nicolas Mohnblatt @nico_mnbl, Remi Colin @rems000, Richard Liang @richardzliang, Rithikha Rajamohan @rithikxa_, Sachin Kumar @0xSachinK, and Xinyuan Sun @sxysun1
Exhibition core team:
Andrew Lu @andrewlu_, Rachel Akerley @rachel_aux, Steven Elleman @StevenElleman, Tessa Maneewong @tessla0x0, and Vivek Bhupatiraju @viv_boop
Exhibition supporters:
EF Privacy Scaling & Explorations @PrivacyScaling and the @EFDevcon team
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By using fashion as a medium to expose & educate on technology, we were able to infuse our experience with even more art. These were all part of the merch store for our museum experience, which we'll cover during the rest of this week! Stay tuned ✨
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3) T-SHIRTS
Digital <> physical (designed by @tessla0x0) and rsa-dolphin (design & concept from urna.winstonsmith.org/materi… and referencing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export…)
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2) BUCKET HATS
The following NFC hat (sourced & stitched locally in Chiang Mai), and an exclusive embroidered elephant (sourced locally, don't have a photo 😅)
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1) ACCESSORIES & JEWELRY
Bracelets (sourced locally in Chiang Mai), necklaces (made by hand by our team!), and rings (sourced from China). All have tappable NFC built in!
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Much of our Devcon experience focused around private, verifiable social graphs built from in-person NFC interactions. We wanted to explore adding NFC chips to clothing to enable more natural ways of creating this social graph.
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ART IN THE MACHINE, part 3.
We wrap our tweet series this week by going through our Devcon SEA activations. First up: our Devcon NFC clothing line, designed by @tessla0x0 and @viv_boop. We go over our methodology & pieces in 🧵 !
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Devcon's visualization went deeper, with flowers that grew based on shared connections. More data in common with others meant more visual complexity—exploring multi-party computation through an intuitive visual language that made deeper connections immediately apparent.
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ART IN THE MACHINE, part 2.
Data ownership has always been our focus, but technical guarantees alone aren't enough. People connect with what they can see and feel. Here's four Cursive app iterations that used art to make ownership tangible, memorable, and beautiful.
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These digital signatures flowing from physical art objects eventually inspired Cursive's name—a nod to the elegant handwritten signatures of the analog world 🔏
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What made ZuStamps special? Over 500 stamps collected by 100 people in just 10 days—with no external incentives. People simply loved the experience of collecting beautiful, meaningful mementos that remained private and under their control. Art and technology in harmony.
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The "Friends of Zuzu" stamp celebrated a rescued cat adopted by a community member. Others commemorated shared meals, hackathons, and gatherings. These weren't just verification tools—they were community stories transformed into art.
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