Reports and market caps show that being a data-driven company is not only paying off, but also that it is becoming the only option to navigate the data producing economy we live in. Companies understand this, so they rush to update their business models to become “data-driven” or “data-first”.

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a powerful tool that has many applications in the blockchain space and cryptography in general. With one of the last releases, we added support for efficient ECC-based cryptographic primitives inside a zkSNARK construction.

Buying data is a lengthy process on its own. Finding the right vendor, type of data, and passing all the regulatory and legal procedures takes time and costs money. On top of that, in practical reality, the procedure is even lengthier because it starts before the decision to buy the data.

Over the last centuries, humanity has tested various governance models for society and individuals. Checks and balances, separation of powers and democracy to be governed as fair as possible. It’s about not giving too much power to a single entity by having proper governance methods in place.

Today for most organizations it is hard to impossible to benefit from artificial intelligence (AI). Especially, when it comes to training and applying machine learning models because they require substantial investments of money, time, data and expertise.

When Apple released the iPhone 5S in 2013, most people focused on its new camera and features such as Touch ID. However, on top of these features, Apple introduced the Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) as a separate sub-processor that would store sensitive data and run computer programs on top of it.

Cryptography is the backbone of our current digital society, but how did it become so important? Interestingly, the systematic study of cryptography as science started only during the past century. The first type of cryptography was writing since the majority of people could not read.