news/data/2024/week07.md

curator
Mykola

Research

• Technical exploration of Erasure Coding within the Swarm network, focusing on ensuring data integrity and resilience -- @GasperX93
• Healthcare data privacy: Researchers pair medical devices with blockchain to defend against cyberattacks (scs)
• OCash: Fully Anonymous Payments between Blockchain Light Clients (src)
• Pay2Chain bridge, named Alba, facilitates the efficient, secure, and trustless execution of conditional payments or smart contracts on a target blockchain based on off-chain events (src)

Concepts

• Eppie: encrypted p2p email as better replacement for Skiff (src)
• koan: private cross-chain swaps by Zcash (src)

Governments

• European Court of Human Rights unequivocally protects encryption in Telegram (src)
• Digital euro will have a high level of privacy (src)
• EEF: The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill (src)

Ecosystem

• Eternal Safe: decentralized fork of Safe{Wallet} without tracking (src)

Releases

• Noir v0.24.0 (pre-release)
• Skiff Mail will now run forwarding up through 2025 (src)
• Privacy wallets W3PN database PR by niclaz (src)
• Holepunch launch Pears - a combined Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Runtime, Development & Deployment tool (src)

Events

• W3PN Call for proposals is here (src)
• ETHBerlin will be sponsorless (src)

Podcasts

• Ben Wizner: Speech, Privacy, and Technology | Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope (src)