Recent Podcasts and Livestreams:

: Epicenter Podcast with Sebastien Couture and Felix Lutsch
: DeFi Decoded Podcast with Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young
: Decentralized Confidential Computing and Encryption Paradigms
: Epicenter Podcast, Ep. 564
: Twitter Spaces with Anatoly Yakovenko and Mert Mumtaz
: Twitter Spaces with Mario Nawfal
: Building a Parallelized Confidential Computing Network
: Building a Parallelized Confidential Computing Network
: Validated Postcast with Austin Federa
: The Future of Blockchain Privacy Tools
: Lightspeed Podcast with Garrett Harper

Recent Articles:

: Supercharging the Blockchain: Arcium's Parallel Execution Model
: Q&A with Yannik Schrade, CEO of Arcium
: The CrowdStrike butterfly effect
: Apple's AI Push Puts Privacy, Security in the Spotlight
: Millions of Apple Apps Exposed to Potential Security Threat

Recent Videos:

: Arcium Keynote at Breakpoint 2024
: Making DePIN Real with Yannik Schrade of Arcium
: Decentralized Confidential Computing and Encryption Paradigms
: Fintech.TV intreview at the NYSE (Market Movers: The Opening Hour)
: Why AI needs DePIN? Aethir, OriginTrail, Arcium, Filecoin Foundation
: Filecoin Dev Summit (EthCC Brussels 2024)
: Arcium: Parallelized Confidential Computing Network (Epicenter Poscast, Ep. 564)
: Workshop: MPC vs FHE by Yannik Schrade from Arcium (FHE Summit 2024)
: Decentralized Confidential Computing Deepdive at ETH CC
: Arcium | Multichain Day | EthCC 2024
: Powering On Chain AI | Multichain Day | EthCC 2024
: Arcium DeCClassified EP3
: Validated | The Future of Blockchain Privacy Tools
: AIxDePIN: Is The Hype Real? (Consensus 2024)
: How Digital Money and Zero Knowledge Proofs Are Setting a New Standard for Privacy
: Why Solana Needs Privacy For Mass Adoption

Cryptographic Open Source Work

I am the author of w25519, an open source cryptographic library for the Short-Weierstrass representation Curve25519 isomorphism for curve operations and Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Writing

I enjoy writing about tech, distributed systems, philosophy and finance.
Nowadays I mostly write on my Twitter.

- Beyond Apple's Promises: The Real Story on AI Privacy and Security

About Yannik Schrade

Yannik Schrade is a German computer scientist, entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-Founder of Arcium, a startup building confidential computing technology. Arcium is building a global supercomputer for the "hyper-encrypted internet" using secure Multiparty Computation and distributed systems to enable confidential and secure applications and AI.
Yannik has studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich and Law at the Heidelberg University. Before founding Arcium, Yannik developed shiftscreen which has been one of the most sold apps on the Apple App Store. Yannik is a frequently featured speaker at conferences and events on the topic of blockchain technology and confidential computing.

My Book Recommendations

I often get asked for book recommendations to get started with cryptography, MPC and distributed systems. So here are some of my recommendations.

Cryptography and distributed systems books:
- Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Jonathan Katz - The first book I read about cryptography.
- A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup - A great in depth walthrough of cryptography.
- Real-World Cryptography by David Wong - The most practical book about cryptography I've found.

Scientific and philosophical books:
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - This book changed how I think about probability and uncertainty.
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche - A profound exploration of morality.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsche's masterpiece on the pursuit of greatness.

Fictional books:
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - A thought-provoking exploration of artificial intelligence.
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - A cyberpunk novel that delves into the implications of digital consciousness.

What motivates me

I believe privacy is a foundational precondition for the advancement of humanity and intelligence.
With my work on Arcium, I want to build a more private, secure and powerful internet.
I want to enable a world where systems can function without requiring any trust.
A world where people can interact with zero trust requirements.
An internet that not only protects our privacy but also enables more powerful interactions through encryption and secure, collaborative computation.

I want to drive and accelerate human progress and the progress of intelligence.

Next to my work on Arcium, I am also doing wildlife management and conservation.
(The above pitcure shows me setting free a young hawk after rescuing it and helping it recover.)