EMURGO and Partisia to enhance Cardano privacy features

EMURGO Ventures and Partisia Blockchain, a Layer 1 public blockchain protocol built for privacy, trust, and scalability, announced a partnership to enable the exchange of resources to enhance Cardano’s (ADA/USD) decentralized privacy features on-chain, Invezz learned from a press release.

Leveraging Partisia’s privacy-preserving ZK for Cardano dApps

With this partnership, Cardano dApp developers and users will be able to take advantage of Partisia blockchain’s privacy-preserving zero-knowledge (ZK), multi-party computation (MPC).

Cardano developers will use customized smart contracts created by Partisia’s team where applicable to their dApp’s utility case. Both Cardano developers and their dApp users with enjoy more robust privacy as a result.

Partisia expects to deliver the first full version of its smart contract programming language designed for privacy-preserving ZK and MPC computations mid-2022. EMURGO founder and CEO Ken Kodama commented:

Partisia Blockchain Co-Founder Brian Gallagher said:

Venture capital firm a16z made a statement: