This week we have blockchain history, practical private AI with homomorphic encryption, Bitcoin's quantum threat, mathematical curiosity, lattice-based rate limiting, binary-field SNARKs, post-quantum ZKSNARKs, and isogeny-based signatures.

• Interviews with pioneers of computing technologies

• https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/p/before-bitcoin-the-ideas-that-made

• https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/

• 中文翻译版（Kurt Pan）: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/t6RhLv-J8J0oBxkTHaomfw

• https://web3101.fireside.fm/92

• https://mathematica.zkpunk.pro/

• Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Anna Lysyanskaya, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1649

• Srinath Setty

• Recommend:

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1656

• Pranay Anchuri, Matteo Campanelli, Rosario Gennaro

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1660

• Uğur Şen, Sergei Tikhomirov, Sylvain Delhomme, Nadeem Bhati, Cyprien Grau

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1666

• Mikhail Sergeevitch, Konrad Staniec, David Tse, Nikhil Vanjani, Robin Linus Woll

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1684

• Aparna Gupte, Seyoon Ragavan, Mark Zhandry

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693

• Jipeng Zhang, Yanpei Guo, Tao Lu, Hao Cheng, Jiaheng Zhang

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1698

• Yuki Kume, Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Mert Yassi

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1639

• Yi-Fu Lai

• https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1640

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