Partisia Blockchain Monthly Update: August & September 2025

Turning Feedback Into Features

This update covers both August and September, two months defined by collaboration.

What began as a community exercise led by Pitbull and Cryptid, who gathered improvement requests across Partisia Blockchain community channels, evolved into a structured process. Those requests were added to a shared Favro board, and after review by the leadership team, Peter, Yusef, and Mathias, several were prioritized and integrated into the roadmap.

This roadmap influence is now visible in the features and performance updates released over the past two months.

The result: a series of concrete updates across the protocol, products, and ecosystem.


Development & Technical Highlights

Community-Requested Features

Simpler Staking Visibility and Management

Delegators can now clearly see where their tokens are staked and reclaim them more easily.
If a delegation hasn’t expired, you can lower the expiration date and partially retract your stake.
If it has expired, you can disassociate the tokens directly on behalf of the node.

👉 Why it matters: Previously, users had to rely on manual checks or ask node operators for help. Now, both delegators and node operators can manage their stakes directly from the browser.


Automated APR Indicator

An automated daily APR calculation is now live inside the Partisia Blockchain Browser.
Rewards update automatically, no more manual recalculation or community spreadsheets.

👉 Why it matters: This makes yield information transparent and consistent for everyone, simplifying the experience for new delegators.


Infrastructure and Performance

External Chains Recorded On-Chain

The list of known external chains is now visible directly in the BYOC Orchestrator contract state.
New chains can be added dynamically, and reader nodes must now fully sync before upgrading to producer nodes, improving network reliability.

👉 Why it matters: Makes interoperability easier to monitor and manage, while tightening node-level quality control.


Replay Mode for Faster Node Sync

A new “replay mode” allows nodes catching up to the network to skip unnecessary event processing. The mode triggers automatically based on how far behind a node is.

👉 Why it matters: Greatly reduces the time and resources needed to get new or restarted nodes up to speed.


Core Blockchain Performance Improvements

Multiple performance enhancements landed in parallel:

  • Shorter handling of large blocks.
  • Transition to AVL trees for faster state access.
  • Removal of duplicated hashing.
  • Improved nonce and ChainID tracking in clients, cutting transaction latency by around 500% (2ms → 0.4ms).

👉 Why it matters: These backend upgrades translate to a smoother experience across wallets, dApps, and node operations.


Smart Contract Language Updates

  • Added a new Get Macro syntax to simplify repetitive contract actions.
  • Contracts can now check how much gas they have before executing.
  • Testing tools were hardened, and groundwork laid for REAL v2,  the next iteration of the Partisia contract language.

👉 Why it matters: Developers gain clearer, safer, and more flexible ways to build and test smart contracts.


Builder Success: Liquid Staking Upgrade

A request from builders running liquid-staking contracts led to a new cancel_pending_unlock function.
The update was implemented and tested, allowing our ecosystem partner Scepter to complete the first successful mainnet contract upgrade on Partisia Blockchain.

👉 Why it matters: This marks an important proof point,  builders can request protocol-level changes and see them delivered to mainnet.


Developer Experience

The Execution Engine (EE) documentation and templates have been fully reworked to make deployments smoother on both Testnet and Mainnet.

Beyond clearer setup guides, the Execution Engine now stands at the center of many upcoming integrations,  including its use in idOS, which relies on EE for secure, privacy-preserving computation.

👉 Why it matters: By improving accessibility and support, more teams can now deploy their own engines and bring advanced MPC logic to mainnet.


Ecosystem Highlights

idOS Launch

  • In September, idOS went live, a decentralized identity layer powered by MPC.
  • It enables users to store and share credentials privately across dApps and platforms while keeping control of their data.

The launch represents a major step toward privacy-preserving digital identity within the Partisia Blockchain ecosystem.

Crypto Factor: InterChain Progression

August:

  • InterChain protocol launched on mainnet.
  • The first CFR token bridge succeeded, validating consensus and interoperability under live conditions.

September:

  • Public rollout opened access to all users, with BYOC fees now flowing to node operators.
  • The CFR MPC20 contract was deployed on Partisia Blockchain.
  • Koala Wallet integration made CFR accessible for everyday users.
  • cDFI and cUSDC became the first bridged assets, expanding liquidity across chains.

Next (This October):

  • Deployment of the Partisia Partial Chain.
  • CFR listing on zkCross DEX.
  • First new token launches via InterChain.

Team Finance Integration

Team Finance is integrating its token management suite into Partisia Blockchain. Smart contracts are being tested, and the front-end is under design. Once live, builders will gain access to token minting, vesting, staking pools, and liquidity-lock tools natively on Partisia.

Crowdsnap POH

Crowdsnap advanced its MPC-secured Proof of Humanity system:

  • Two client demos completed with positive feedback.
  • Introduced face-movement verification (replacing eye-blink checks).
  • Delivered major UI/UX upgrades and began work on a Flutter-based mobile app.

Looking Ahead

The past two months turned direct feedback into production updates.

Delegators gained clarity and automation, builders received new tools and contract functions, and the network itself became faster and more robust.

Meanwhile, ecosystem partners, from idOS to Crypto Factor, brought live use cases that extend privacy, identity, and liquidity across the Partisia Blockchain.

As we enter Q4, expect:

  • The first partial chain execution on mainnet.
  • CFR trading on zkCross DEX.
  • New token launches through InterChain.
  • Continued delivery of builder-driven improvements.

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July 2025 Update: Annual Roadmap, Partner Progress, and Browser Improvements

July delivered concrete progress across public chain development and ecosystem partners. CryptoFactor prepared for their August mainnet launch, Sceptre completed final testing for liquid staking, and we finished our annual technical roadmap with community input integrated throughout the process.

The month also brought browser improvements that address specific user pain points, from testnet onboarding to stake visibility.

Here’s what happened in July and what’s coming next.


Ecosystem Partner Updates

Crypto Factor: August Mainnet Launch

Crypto Factor’s InterChain protocol entered its final preparation phase. The CFR dApp is completing final integration with the new InterChain operator protocol. Gas optimizations are targeting 20-30% fee reductions from testnet versions.

August plan:

  • Deploy InterChain Consensus Layer (Master Chain) on Partisia: initiate and bootstrap block production for mainnet.
  • Deploy InterChain Interoperability Layer (Partial Chains) on Partisia, Polygon, and DeFiChain, enabling seamless blockchain connections.
  • Open mainnet in beta, limited public access with a whitelist of approved participants.
  • Launch CFR Bridge, built on the InterChain Interoperability Layer, connecting Partisia, Polygon, and DeFiChain.
  • Conduct initial cAsset tests, trial runs of cUSDC and cDFI transfers across the InterChain Interoperability Layer.

Mainnet beta will be available for registered participants once deployment is complete. Please contact us via official channels to request beta access.

Sceptre: Liquid Staking Ready

Sceptre completed final preparations for liquid staking launch. All wallet integrations are finished. Final testing is complete. Launch expected soon.

Users will stake MPC tokens and receive sMPC tokens that accumulate staking rewards while remaining liquid for use across other protocols.

“Sceptre will give MPC holders a way to earn staking rewards while keeping a token (sMPC) that allows them to participate in other protocols on Partisia,” says Joel Monteiro, Head of Marketing at Sceptre.

Other Partners

Koala Wallet

  • WalletConnect interface improvements applied
  • Backend infrastructure updated for better reliability

idOS

  • MPC Execution Engine integrated into production
  • Enables passwordless profile creation from wallet signatures
  • Live demo available at demo.idos.network

CrowdSnap POH

  • Human face verification system completed
  • Partisia execution engine launched
  • Testnet launch in preparation

Annual Roadmap Complete

We finished the Annual Technical Roadmap (July 2025–June 2026) in July. Community input was collected, reviewed for technical feasibility, and integrated into development priorities.

Detailed timelines and features will be announced soon.


Crowdsnap Grant: Proof of Humanity

We awarded Crowdsnap a grant to build a Proof of Humanity solution. AI tools can create fake identities to manipulate surveys. Traditional verification systems expose biometric data or use centralized authorities.

Crowdsnap’s solution uses MPC to generate biometric hashes from speech recognition and facial detection. No single party sees raw biometric information. This verifies human identity without exposing personal data while meeting data protection regulations.


Browser Improvements

July updates:

Testnet gas distribution: New users on testnet can now get gas automatically. This enhances the developer experience for those testing applications and streamlines the onboarding process for ecosystem builders.

Gas activity fixes: Fixed gas activities showing wrong signage, improved accuracy in transaction history, and fee tracking for better transparency.

UI improvements: Resolved token and gas balance overlapping on small screens, enhancing the mobile browsing experience. Added helpful tooltips for block producer icons on the accounts/node-operators page.

Association spread visibility: Association spread is now shown on the jobs tab, which is part of the broader “Make it easier to understand where stakes are and make it easier to get them released” roadmap task. Additional improvements in this area are planned for the following weeks.

Previous improvements for context:

  • Snapshot mechanism (mid-June): Node bootstrapping reduced from 3-4 weeks to 1-2 days
  • Automated weekly rewards (end of May): Weekly MPC distribution, fully automated
  • Banking overview (mid-May): Complete asset transfer history in a single dashboard

What’s Next

August:

  • Crypto Factor InterChain mainnet launch
  • Annual roadmap details announced
  • Sceptre liquid staking launch
  • CrowdSnap POH testnet deployment

July showed partners moving from testing to production and infrastructure, addressing user feedback.


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Reimagining Web3: A Vision of Privacy, Interoperability, and Real Adoption

Reimagining Web3: A Vision of Privacy, Interoperability, and Real Adoption

Web3 is widely described as the next evolution of the internet, a decentralized, user-centric ecosystem where individuals control their digital assets and data. 

Yet, while blockchain technology delivers transparency and asset ownership, true data control remains elusive. People may hold and control their assets on-chain, but they generally lack privacy over how their personal information is stored, shared, and monetized. 

At Partisia Blockchain, we fix this. Our mission is to embed privacy and data ownership in Web3 through Multiparty Computation (MPC)—a powerful cryptographic technology that enables secure, centralized privacy-preserving computations.

This is why we say: “We do for data what Bitcoin did for money.”

Our vision is clear: build a decentralized network that is both transparent and confidential, enabling users and organizations to interact freely without losing control of their data. 

Achieving this requires removing friction, enabling seamless interoperability, and delivering a practical path for both native web3 projects and traditional enterprises to build on or with Partisia Blockchain. 

A Strategy Focused on Real Adoption

To bring this vision to life, our strategic priorities focus on two key areas:

1. Expanding the Web3 Ecosystem

Despite remarkable strides in the blockchain industry, widespread adoption is still hindered by fragmentation, inefficiencies, and insufficient confidentiality. 

Partisia Blockchain tackles these challenges in several ways:

User-centric confidentiality and data control:

  • All-purpose privacy-preserving computation readily available.
  • Interoperable and accessible across web3 ecosystems.
  • Enables secure AI-driven computations without exposing your sensitive data.

Cross-chain interoperability:

  • Bring Your Own Coin (BYOC) – MPC secured bringing of native coins in and out of Partisia Blockchain.
  • Bring Your Own Nodes (BYON) – Allowing users to bring in their own ZK nodes to run MPC.
  • Data Interoperability – MPC secured data interoperability fully elaborated with the GODS Network. 

Scalability and stable fees:

  • Unlimited scalability through independent shards
  • The scalability model removes surge pricing and fluctuation fees

Which enables many new and novel use cases such as:

Bringing Privacy to DID and AI: 

  • Enables secure AI-driven computations without exposing your sensitive data.
  • Enables general and privacy-preserving use of credentials across chains and providers of verifiable credentials. 

Providing Cross-Chain MPC Security: 

  • Offers decentralized backup for cryptographic keys across multiple networks, eliminating single points of failure.
  • This provides stronger key management features benefitting individuals and the entire network. If one node or user is compromised, the entire system remains secure.

Enhancing Cross-Chain DeFi: 

  • DeFi applications benefit from frontrunning protection and multi-chain liquidity, enabled by MPC-driven privacy solutions.
  • This benefits the web3 ecosystem through enhanced liquidity and reduced risk of exploitative practices like sandwich attacks.
  • Making staking more accessible, increasing flexibility and therefore participation.

Although Partisia Blockchain is a best practice L1 it does not compete with other L1 or L2 projects; instead, we complement them. We do so by providing privacy, security, and cross-chain functionality that makes web3 more scalable, user-friendly and secure.

2. Helping Enterprises Transition to Web3

For enterprises, the leap into decentralized technology can be often seen as too daunting, complex and disruptive. Many factors may contribute to this, including concerns around security, scalability, privacy, control, and regulatory compliance. 

Partisia Blockchain simplifies this process by providing a step-by-step migration path that allows businesses to transition from private networks to public blockchain ecosystems at their own pace.

There is a natural supply chain perspective in moving web2 companies to web3. While industry collaboration typically happens in private enterprise controlled networks, web3 offers a superior way to enhance the collaboration with end users of a product or service. 

Two core properties of Partisia Blockchain makes it a pathway to web3:

  • Confidentiality allows for confidential activation of first level data to be used for identity, access control and data driven services in general.
  • Interoperability allows web2 companies to tap into the entire web3 ecosystem as opposed to selecting a single blockchain ecosystem.

Examples of enterprise adoption use cases include:

  • Decentralized Identity (DID) for seamless authentication across multiple blockchain networks, protecting user credentials.
  • Real World Assets (RWA) & Data Activation: Harness blockchain for broader user engagement, data monetization, and transparent asset representation. 
  • MPC-Powered AI Agents: Deployment of privacy-preserving AI applications that maintain compliance and safeguard proprietary data. 

By minimizing adoption hurdles, we empower enterprises to capitalize on blockchain core benefits – transparency, interoperability, and privacy – without disrupting their existing operations.

Roadmap: What’s Coming Next?

This strategy is already reflected in our six-month technical roadmap for Partisia Blockchain, merging technical advancements with ecosystem expansion plans.

Key Objectives:

Strengthening the Developer Ecosystem: 

  • Improved onboarding, enriched documentation, and robust API integrations.

Improved User Onboarding: 

  • Improving visibility and access to tokens and wallets, plus user-friendly user interfaces and experience for easier adoption.

Expanding BYOC (Bring Your Own Coin) Solutions: 

  • Broader cross-chain asset support and enhanced security layers. 

Expanding BYON (Bring Your Own (zk) Nodes)

  • Enable MPC security models for critical infrastructure across web3.

Utilizing GODS.Network 

  • A cross-chain data subscription layer that seamlessly connects web3 applications fragmented across different blockchains.

A more detailed roadmap update will be shared in June, outlining the next evolution of the project.

GODS Network: A Leap in Interoperability

One of the most significant innovations in the ecosystem is the launch of GODS Network, a revolutionary interoperability layer built on Partisia Blockchain. 

Leveraging MPC and secure cryptographic techniques, GODS Network enables any smart contract to seamlessly access and process data across multiple blockchains—turning fragmented ecosystems into a unified digital infrastructure.

  • For Developers: It provides high-throughput interoperability by distributing workloads. This ensures efficient handling of large-scale data requests without sacrificing privacy or performance. Simply plug in, with minimal overhead, to leverage a unified approach to cross-chain data.
  • For Enterprises: GODS Network delivers a seamless solution to connect private solutions to all supported public blockchains. By maintaining confidentiality and security through advanced privacy measures, organizations can adopt decentralized technology at their own pace. No large-scale overhauls needed.
  • For Partisia Blockchain: Every interaction on GODS Network triggers on-chain transactions, fueling network growth and sustainability.

In essence, GODS Network addresses one of web3’s biggest barriers—true interoperability—while amplifying Partisia Blockchain’s vision of a privacy-focused, scalable, and decentralized future. 

It is worth noting that GODS Network is funded independently from the Partisia Blockchain Foundation, hence, the Partisia Blockchain benefits from additional throughput and activity without extra cost to the ecosystem.

Learn more via our dedicated introductory article or through the GODS.Network website.

Sustainability & Long-Term Viability

A public blockchain’s long-term success is measured by real-usage, not short-term speculation. Our strategy is designed to drive 3 core pillars:

  1. Increased On-Chain Transactions – Through enterprise involvement, web3 integrations, and more adoption from developers, builders, and through interoperability.
  2. Scalable Network Growth – Emphasizing practical privacy and interoperability for both developers and enterprises.
  3. Token Utility & Ecosystem Incentives – Prioritizing genuine adoption over hype-driven token incentives. 

While we offer grants to builders, we do not rely on them to attract enterprises. They join us for ROI and a robust technical foundation with proven technical expertise to take on this challenge. 

Our sustainability model focuses on consistent ecosystem involvement – real transactions, ongoing integrations, and enduring partnerships, rather than token-driven boom and busts.

Governance: The Path to Greater Decentralization

Decentralized governance is key to fulfilling our long-term vision. The Partisia Blockchain Foundation (PBF) is a Swiss-regulated non-profit, operating under strict oversight to ensure funds are used solely to develop and promote the public blockchain.

Over time, as we evolve, we will implement governance improvements to further align with community participation and transparency. Discussions and updates around governance changes will be conducted through blog posts, social channels, community channels and other avenues we’re working on. 

You can join us across any of these channels, available via our linktree.

Key Governance Initiatives

  • Expanding Community Participation – New frameworks for structured collaboration with ecosystem stakeholders.
  • Exploring a DAO Model – If and when the community determines a clear benefit, we will explore a DAO-driven governance structure, ensuring it is implemented when there is strong demand and readiness.

Our goal is not just decentralization for the sake of optics, but real, functional governance that supports the long-term success of the network.

Governance improvements will be introduced gradually, ensuring that shifts toward decentralization are well-planned and beneficial to the network.

Final Thoughts: A Stronger, More Connected Future

Partisia Blockchain is a key enabler of a truly decentralized web3. By combining MPC-powered privacy, interoperability, and real enterprise adoption, we are setting the stage for a more secure, scalable, and inclusive digital economy.

We are at a pivotal moment in our journey. With a refined strategy, an expanding ecosystem, and clear governance direction, we are ready to take web3 to the next level.

Expect to see major developments in the coming months, including new technical rollouts, ecosystem partnerships, and deeper community engagement.

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Unlocking tomorrow: Outlook for MPC in 2024 and beyond

Unlocking tomorrow: Outlook for MPC in 2024 and beyond

The need for a decentralized exchange (DEX) with a sealed bidding inspired the first practical application of the multiparty computation (MPC) technology, which was theorized some 20 years earlier. Partisia addressed the urgent need to reallocate production rights among sugar beet producers in Denmark in 2008. Fifteen years ago, Danisco, the sole Danish sugar producer, recognized the value of the MPC-based DEX solution and created a stepping stone leading to the creation of Partisia. Over the years, Partisia and, later, Partisia Blockchain expanded their offerings based on the MPC technology, developing secure auctions for the telecom and energy sectors, key management for general use and data analytics that forms a new beginning for the data economy.

A broad vision of MPC’s potential to improve resource allocation across various sectors, Partisia Blockchain’s focus on data, encompassing encryption keys, crypto assets, online identities, health records and more remain central to its appeal. In a world of large data, Partisia Blockchain champions decentralizing transparency, confidentiality and preserving privacy. Thus, transforming the data economy and to empower individuals to control their data and foster a new era of data ownership.

Looking further ahead, Partisia Blockchain envisions further advancements based on the MPC technology, including exploration into quantum computing, where the combination of MPC and blockchain may be instrumental for secure outsourcing to quantum computers. In 2024, MPC technology will transcend its niche status and become a fundamental technology that underpins the secure and collaborative digital future. The below list highlights the diverse and transformative impact MPC will have across various industries in 2024 and beyond, safeguarding privacy and revolutionizing the way we handle sensitive data.

Mainstream integration: MPC technology will become a mainstream term as more industries and businesses adopt this technology to secure sensitive data. From finance to healthcare, MPC will be a pivotal player in safeguarding digital assets and privacy as privacy protection becomes central in legislative, corporate and user environments.

More secure decentralized identity solutions: MPC will play a pivotal role in shaping decentralized identity solutions. In 2024, individuals will have greater control over their digital identities, reducing the risk of identity theft and enhancing overall online security.

MPC in blockchain networks: More blockchain networks will integrate MPC protocols to enhance privacy and security. This integration will not only bolster the confidentiality of transactions but also contribute to the overall scalability and efficiency of blockchain platforms.

Quantum-ready MPC: Acknowledging the future potential of quantum computing, the right type of MPC solutions are already quantum-resistant. Partisia Blockchain’s exploration into quantum computing will pave the way for an integration of MPC with quantum technologies, future-proofing the security of data transactions.

Growth in financial sector adoption: Financial institutions will lead the charge in implementing MPC solutions to protect sensitive financial transactions and customer data. Expect to see a surge in MPC-powered secure enclaves for financial data processing.

Faster and more ethical healthcare research: The healthcare industry will witness a paradigm shift with MPC, as medical researchers and institutions leverage its capabilities for secure collaborative research without compromising patient privacy. This will expedite the development of breakthrough treatments and therapies.

Expansion of scalable DeFi beyond blockchain and crypto: DeFi will continue evolving beyond the blockchain industry. MPC based solutions will help address financial inclusion challenges, as well as scalability and front-running, leveraging advanced encrypted computation and collaborative solutions, with an emphasis on financial inclusion, regulatory compliance, and interoperability.

Edge computing security: As edge computing becomes more prevalent, MPC will be at the forefront of ensuring secure computations at the edge. This will be particularly crucial in industries such as IoT, where data are secured and processed locally.

Standardization initiatives: International standardization bodies will actively work on establishing industry-wide standards for MPC implementations. This will lead to interoperability among different MPC solutions and foster a more cohesive and secure digital ecosystem.

AI and machine learning acceleration: The marriage of MPC and artificial intelligence/machine learning will see unprecedented growth. Privacy-preserving machine learning models, trained collaboratively across different parties without revealing individual datasets, will become the new norm, fostering innovation in AI research and applications.

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Roadmap Spotlight #6: Simplified node operations

Roadmap Spotlight #6: Simplified node operations

At present, it requires a fair amount of technology knowledge to build and support a node in PBC. While many who do not have a technology background have been able to build and maintain nodes, it still creates a barrier that many individuals or organizations feel hesitant to cross. The other challenge is the current staking and job association process. Because the staked MPC tokens in a node are being used as collateral for all the types of jobs the node is running, unstaking and unassociating tokens that are being used can be a challenge.

This is why we are putting focus on implementing a simpler node setup and operations process. This will allow easier setup of nodes as well as easier associating and dissociating of your tokens.

These new features will be rolled out in phases, with the first one being automatic node registration. A simplified registration process will be rolled out where just the configs on your node will kickstart the KYC/KYB and the registration process.

Second phase of the project will be to simplify the association and dissociation of your staked tokens. It will all be a part of our “Staking 2.0” model, which will look to make it easier and less restrictive for both node operators and delegated stakers to manage their stakes.

Running a node will still require some level of technical skill. We hope by automating some of the process, it will make it less confusing and easier for the registration process.

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Roadmap Spotlight #5: New Smart Contract Features

Roadmap Spotlight #5: New Smart Contract Features

As we continue to see development occurring on our blockchain, we are always on the lookout for feedback on how to improve our platform, either to make it easier for developers to develop on, or to add new functionalities to help improve the product offering by the teams developing on our chain.

In the last 6 months we’ve been listening to the developers and have been working on various new functionalities and features that should help improve the quality and functionality of the projects. Some of them came in the form of development tools which we reviewed last week.

In this article, we will review the new feature sets that are upcoming to help developers improve upon the existing features or add new functionalities.

Some of these features will also create new use cases for the MPC tokens

Improvements in the PBC as a Second Layer Functionality

One of our main value propositions is our cross-chain bridge (Hermes). This unique bridge and gas payment system allows other chains to be a usable asset in Partisia Blockchain. It is this bridge that allows other chains to call our MPC technology as a service and pay for it using their native coins. But at the moment the data that is transferred is through manual data attestation, and the transfer only occurs in one way (PBC -> EVM).

By implementing BYOC messages to be supportable, we will now implement a two way communication system. This allows for the smart contract writer to hook events that are happening in the EVM back to PBC. Through adding a MPC powered threshold key and tying our oracle servers to collateralize these data through MPC tokens, developers will now be able to create an automated bidirectional flow of data between the EVM and PBC. This opens up additional functionality, such as adding message information in NFTs and allowing them to be transferable cross chain, or sending and receiving of data during the actual bridging transfers.

Staking as an Insurance

Currently, once the funds inside a smart contract runs out, the contract gets deleted. We will be creating a new method to allow for SC owners to stake their MPC tokens as insurance to allow for these smart contracts to continue to live on even if the funds run out of the contract. This will allow for both a safety mechanism in the event funds do run out and also introduce another use for MPC tokens.

ZK Contract Lifetime Beyond 28 Days

Currently the data in a ZK contract lasts for 28 days. Going forward, we will introduce a way to allow for this data to be extendable to go past the 28 days through staking MPC tokens and re-funding the smart contract.

ZK Computation in Batches

This feature will allow for multiple ZK computations to be batchable so that you do not have to execute each and every computation one at a time.

Allow ZK Contracts to Control User Data

Currently the developers writing ZK smart contracts do not have flexible control of the Zero Knowledge data. Through this feature, we will allow for developers to have greater control of the type of data and the control of how the data will be used.

We hope that the above will both help improve the speed in which development can be done as well as allow for new features to be implementable by the developers.

As each of the items complete, we will make a separate announcement in our development channels.

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Roadmap Spotlight #4: Research into Native Bitcoin as BYOC

Roadmap Spotlight #4: Research into Native Bitcoin as BYOC

Bitcoin is what started it all. The coin that began the blockchain industry and even over 14 years after its initial creation, and after so many new coins trying to improve upon the original, it still stands as the king of crypto currency. It is still the main form used as payment in the blockchain industry and others are either built as bringing functionality more than being a currency or is relegated as 2nd place at best.

As mentioned in our interoperability article, the current blockchain L1 ecosystem are basically in a zero sum game. Every chain is trying to be faster, cheaper, more secure and easier to build on. And each blockchain operates by using their own native coin for their transaction fees. And as DeFi came into the picture, DEX’s began looking for options to allow for swapping between chains that were not native to itself. Enter wrapped tokens.

Currently in the DeFi ecosystem, there is only one way to trade BTC. By creating a wrapped version of itself. Whether its wBTC, HBTC or renBTC, etc, it is basically all a similar form of custodying a BTC and minting an IOU type mirror token on the native network. When the smart contract holding the mirror coin is burned, then the locked, or custodied real bitcoin is released. One of the problem in this system is that you must give trust to the custodians. Not only does this go against the trustless-system ethos of public blockchains, if something happens to the custodians (hack, out of business, etc) then your wrapped tokens could be lost or become worthless.

While Partisia Blockchain can implement wrapped bitcoin as BYOC asset easily, this fundamental architecture of wrapped bitcoin tied to a custody goes against the principles of allowing native coins to be used as a form of transaction payment in the blockchain. As mentioned above, from price parity between real and wrapped BTC, to security issues raised by using a custodian (corruption or even worse, a hack in the custody system) there were too many compromises. And so we are taking the road less traveled and working toward finding a solution to allow for native bitcoin to be usable as an asset in the Partisia Blockchain.

This means we are creating a multi-phase program to build this road. The first phase will be a research phase. We’ve already begun this effort and hope to complete it in the next few months. Once the research is complete, we will know the effort needed and then will engage in an architecture and engineering sessions to plan out the work to accomplish this.

This has some major possible benefits. From allowing users to spend native BTC as gas transactions for applications built on the Partisia Blockchain, to creating a native token swap between BTC and another BYOC chain, or even helping to scale transactions in the bitcoin network, implementing native BTC directly in the Partisia Blockchain network will open up new possibilities in the blockchain industry as a whole.

Please be on the lookout for future news of the results of this research.

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Roadmap Spotlight #3: Arithmetic MPC (REAL) Protocol

Roadmap Spotlight #3: Arithmetic MPC (REAL) Protocol

Currently our MPC protocol (called REAL) computes binary protocols, but we are going to add an arithmetic protocol in the not too distant future. The “binary” or “arithmetic” property of a protocol is not an indication of what is possible, but rather what is efficient.

Every MPC protocol operates on units of some type, and all applications using MPC are built using a very very small set of operations on this type. Some types are better at some applications than others, which motivates supporting protocols that operate on different unit types.

In binary REAL, the “unit type” is a bit; that is, a number that is either 0 or 1. The only operations we can perform on these bits are exclusive or and conjunction (or XOR and AND). All other protocols have to be built using one or more bits, and a combination of XOR and AND operations.

This naturally means that protocols that can be efficiently expressed as a combination of XOR and AND operations, would be efficient in binary REAL. Such operations include comparisons, any kind of bit manipulation, rotations, shifts, and so on.

On the other hand, operations that require a lot of XOR and AND operations, would be in-efficient. For example, additions, subtractions, multiplications and essentially any operation that is “arithmetic” in nature.

In Arithmetic REAL, on the other hand, the “unit type” is a number between 0 and n (for some n) — and the only operations we can perform are addition and multiplication.

Arithmetic REAL therefore performs very well in applications with a lot of arithmetic. That is, a lot of additions, subtractions, multiplications and so on. On the other hand, applications with a lot of non-arithmetic operations are expensive. For example, it is not very easy to compare two numbers, if all you’re allowed to do is add and multiply the two numbers being compared with each other.

Which for What

Binary REAL, being binary (or boolean) in nature, performs well on applications that are, well, binary in nature. This includes applications such as

  • Auctions (because an auction is just a lot of comparisons)
  • Encryption and hashing with certain ciphers, e.g., AES and SHA (because these ciphers involve almost exclusively bit operations)
  • String operations (most string operations are also just bit manipulations of some sort)

Arithmetic REAL, being arithmetic, performs well on arithmetic applications:

  • Machine learning (all ML requires a large degree of linear algebra, which is just a lot of additions and multiplications)
  • Statistics (for the same reason as above)
  • Voting (because voting can be expressed as simply tallying votes, which is just additions)

By enabling arithmetic computations in Partisia Blockchain, we aim to open up new solutions as well as allow for cheaper and easier implementation of existing ones. From health record analysis to private voting in a massive scale, we hope to achieve a much wider acceptance of MPC as a perfect solution to enabling computation while protecting individual users’ privacy.

Be on the lookout for this sometime in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2023.

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Roadmap Spotlight #2: Development Tools

Roadmap Spotlight #2: Development Tools

One of the main priorities for any blockchain is adoption. The stronger the base that are developing on the chain, the stronger the chain. And one of the important factors for adoption is the ease of development on a chain. For that purpose, we have been working hard on tools to help developers develop and deploy on our chain.

The below are some of the key frameworks, contracts and libraries that will help developers create amazing applications on our chain which we are planning to release in the next 6 months.

  • DEX contracts — We are creating a template for DEX contracts alongside a factory to help developers create new DEX’s as well as onboard new tokens easily. Along with the BYOC Framework, we think this will help deployment of a DEX to be very simple
  • CLI interface for interacting with smart contracts — Currently we allow interactions to our smart contracts through our UI in dashboard or browser. Through enabling interactions to our SC in a CLI, we will allow for developers to create scripts that can automate interactions to the smart contract they are developing.
  • Test framework — Currently the devs need to manually deploy and manually test individual pieces of their contracts. In the new JUnit testing library, developers will be able to test deployment and actions for their contracts. This will enable Continuous Integration during development of smart contracts, where unit testing and cross contract integration testing can be stepped through and asserted.
  • Gas estimation tool — We will be launching a tool to help developers calculate gas for their smart contracts. As our sharding architecture is unique, we want to create a tool to help developers compute their gas requirements for the application in an easier way.
  • ABI for all governance contracts — We will enable interactions with our governance contracts, with documentation for what each of the contracts do.

With these tools, we hope we will allow development in our chain to be easier, and we will continue to focus on building new tools to help the development community.

Many of these items will launch as they get completed, with a full completion date of around the end of 4th Quarter.

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Roadmap Spotlight #1: BYOC Token Onboarding Framework

Roadmap Spotlight #1: BYOC Token Onboarding Framework

One of Partisia Blockchain’s core values is in collaboration. Our belief is that one of the main paths to advancing the further adoption of the blockchain industry is through working together. And this belief is built into our blockchain architecture.

As mentioned in our interoperability article, the current blockchain ecosystem is kind of like going to an amusement park. You can play in an ecosystem but only if you pay using their native token.

Partisia Blockchain’s payment mechanism broke away from this paradigm and designed a tokenomics that uses other chains tokens. We started off with Ethereum, then added Polygon USDC, and then integrated BNB into the chain. Now, we are bringing the ability to onboarding tokens to the community.

With the new Ethereum BYOC Framework, we are enabling the ability for any community developer to submit a proposal to onboard a ERC20 or a BEP20 token of their choice that is running on the respective chains into the Partisia Blockchain bridge. This brings the control of adding a token into the Partisia Blockchain to the public.

How it works:

  • In order for the bridge to work between chains, you must have a contract in the Ethereum or BNB chain network as well as on the Partisia Blockchain network. We provide a template for anyone to tweak and submit a proposal to add the coin of their choice. Then you submit the proposal into the Partisia Blockchain.
  • This proposal will go to a vote to our node operator committee. The committee then has 7 days to review the proposal and either accept or reject the proposal.
  • If it is accepted, the contract will go live and the token will become available as an asset in the network.

By enabling this important roadmap item, we bring the control of onboarding any new Eth or BNB based asset into our unique bridge to not only be used as a swappable tokens, but allow it to be usable as gas for transacting in the Partisia Blockchain network. Whether you are a dApp that wants to add privacy services into your existing application, or create a unique DeFi solution on Partisia Blockchain that allows for swift easy swaps between assets while preventing front running and sandwich attacks through MPC, all of the value proposition that Partisia Blockchain offers is now available to any system running in the Etherium, Polygon or BNB chains.

Please look out for this feature being launched sometime in the 3rd/4th quarter.

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