Product Keynote: Arcium (Breakpoint 2024)

0:00Hey, everyone. As you know, Solana is one of the ecosystems I'm the most interested in. I've been incredibly bullish. I love to see the vibrancy of what is happening in the space. Unfortunately, I couldn't make Breakpoint this year, but the stories have been amazing. I heard the talks are incredible, and we're really proud of Real Vision to give you talks from Solana Breakpoint 2024 in Singapore. I really hope you enjoy them.

0:38Encrypt everything, compute anything, that's what we're building with Arkeum. So I'm Janik, co-founder and CEO at Arkeum. And today I want to introduce you to the technology that we're building and how it addresses some of the most pressing challenges in privacy and data security. So, we are building the global supercomputer for a hyper encrypted internet. So, imagine a world in which any data can be stored securely in an encrypted way, while it remains possible to do anything with this data. A world where we can analyze, process and learn from information without ever having to expose it. And so, we are building the infrastructure and the technology to allow for this to happen in a trustless and efficient way.

1:27The way it works is that Archeum is a purely computational stateless network. It runs entirely on encrypted data. And so we can have encrypted data that sits on Solana that enters Archeum. And then within Archeum, this encrypted data can be securely processed. And the way we are able to process this data is through cryptography, more precisely, secure party computation and the way it works is that encrypted data is being securely split into data shares and those data shares can then be processed in parallel within the Archeon network and so once those computations have been finished encrypted outputs can be produced and settled back on Solana but so Archeon becomes this autonomous asynchronous execution machine that allows for arbitrary computations to be executed on Solana.

2:24One of the innovations we've designed is ARX OS, the first decentralized encrypted operating system that powers Archeum and on top of ARX OS it's possible to deploy encrypted isolated environments, MPC execution environments, which allow for the arbitrary processing of encrypted data. We've also designed our custom Rust compiler that allows arbitrary Rust programs to be compiled into a format that Arceum understands and can securely process and with this compiler combined with our frameworks it becomes possible for developers to add confidentiality and security to their applications by simply deploying their apps in an encrypted environment.

3:10The most magical thing about our architecture I think is our cryptographic security model and so where traditional distributed systems fail if a majority of participants become compromised Argym has security against the dishonest majority so as long as there's one single participant that isn't maliciously collaborating isn't compromised before the others Argym can remain secure and this cryptographic security model however doesn't come at the cost of performance and so our breakthroughs in MPC protocols but it's just behavior identification and combined with GPU and hardware acceleration we are ten thousand times so many orders of magnitude faster than fully homomorphic encryption when processing fully encrypted data now what becomes possible with the system is to build fully confidential on-chain applications and fully confidential often applications archaeo is a purely computational network so archaeo can be utilized to build confidential and efficient markets on Solana imagine Solana defy but now fully encrypted and efficient at the same time it's possible to facilitate very data intense applications so to facilitate data aggregation or note authentication for deepened applications building on Solana and most impressively I think on our technological level is that we are able to allow for collaborative and federated learning in Archeum.

4:55So we've made significant breakthroughs in floating point operations and real number arithmetic that allows for many parties to run collaborative machine learning and fully encrypted AI models without having to trust any single individual. So those are just a few of the use cases that become possible with the kind of confidential computing that we are building with Arceum. Arceum is this dedicated network that developers can use to add confidentiality and encryption to the applications. Thank you.