2024 Year In Review

2024 marked a pivotal year for Partisia Blockchain as we transitioned from Beta to a fully operational mainnet and saw the MPC token listed on major foundational exchanges. From onboarding innovative projects to expanding partnerships and refining our core infrastructure, we’ve laid the groundwork for a breakout 2025. The surge in data breaches, coupled with the growing reliance on AI, highlights the critical need for privacy-enhancing technologies.

Read on to catch up on all the updates from 2024.

Key Milestones

  • Mainnet Transition: Successfully moved out of Beta Mainnet into our full Mainnet in June of 2024, unlocking true scalability, privacy, and enterprise-grade performance.
  • Ecosystem Growth: Onboarded and collaborated with a diverse range of projects, with more in conversation. Launched zkCross Bridge, Koala Wallet, Health Innovation Exchange, and more innovative PET applications on the way!
  • $MPC Token Access: Listed on leading exchanges, improving accessibility and liquidity.
  • Leadership Transformation: Adrienne Youngman appointed CEO, bringing renewed momentum and strategic focus.
  • Global Presence: Provided thought leadership at premier events like World Economic Forum Davos, Token2049, and TEAMZ Web3 Summit.

MPC Token Available on Multiple Exchanges

In March, the $MPC token launched on leading centralized exchanges including KuCoin, Bitfinex, Gate.io, MEXC, BitMart, and Bitrue.

This milestone enabled:

  • Increased accessibility for users worldwide.
  • Enhanced liquidity, reflecting strong community enthusiasm.

The $MPC token’s robust initial trading volumes underscored the community’s confidence in its potential to empower industries and individuals with privacy-first blockchain solutions.

Kurt Nielsen, President of Partisia Blockchain:

“The overwhelming interest in the MPC token reaffirms our position as an industry leader. Our technology ensures trustless transaction safety without compromising speed, scalability, or interoperability. The MPC token empowers users to shape the future of Web3 while paving the way for transformative innovation.”

Mainnet Launch

Shortly following these MPC listings, we reached a pivotal moment with the transition from Beta Mainnet to a fully operational Mainnet in June. Including:

  • Enhanced scalability for enterprise-grade applications, powered by web3.
  • Real-time finality for faster and more secure transactions.
  • Robust privacy features enabling cutting-edge, privacy-preserving solutions.

With the completion of all roadmap items, Partisia Blockchain is positioned to scale privacy-centric web3 solutions globally. 

Stay tuned for our updated roadmap in early 2025!

Leadership Transformation: Adrienne Youngman Appointed CEO

In September, we welcomed Adrienne Youngman as CEO of the Partisia Blockchain Foundation. Adrienne’s extensive experience in global brand strategy and Web3 innovation has already begun to reinvigorate our mission.

Highlights of Adrienne’s Leadership:

  • Global Expertise: Led operations for major brands like Captain Morgan.
  • Entrepreneurial Impact: Co-founded and exited successful businesses in Asia.
  • Web3 Advocacy: Championed decentralized infrastructure and digital identity adoption.

Since stepping into her role, Adrienne has been instrumental in:

  • Accelerating product adoption to enhance ecosystem activity.
  • Driving global awareness of Partisia Blockchain’s groundbreaking solutions.
  • Strengthening community engagement through targeted partnerships and initiatives.

Her leadership has set a clear course for scaling privacy-first blockchain solutions and driving broader adoption.

Advancing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PET) Applications in Web3

2024 underscored the growing importance of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in a world increasingly reliant on sensitive data. With data breaches rising from 447 in 2012 to over 3,200 in 2023, the urgency for privacy-first solutions has never been greater.

Partisia Blockchain’s PETs, like Multi-Party Computation (MPC), enable secure data flows, privacy-preserving AI interactions, and innovative identity solutions all while improving user experience and enabling new features and products.

Why PETs Matter:

  • Rising Data Breaches: Intrusion attempts globally reached 7.6 trillion in 2023—a 20% increase from 2022. Average cost per breach is $5m globally and $10m in the USA.
  • AI Acceleration: PETs enable organizations to use sensitive data in AI-driven applications securely.
  • New Data Economies: The combination of PET and blockchain unlocks new collaborations and enables enterprises to get more value from their data.

Projects Launched on Partisia Blockchain in 2024

Since the mainnet launch in June, a number of projects have successfully launched on Partisia Blockchain:

Promising Projects in Development

The second half of the year saw increased interest in leveraging Partisia Blockchain’s privacy-first infrastructure. Some of these collaborations include:

  • zkCrossDEX: A cross-chain lock swap DEX.
  • Profila: User data aggregation and monetization platform
  • Boostylabs: Multi-token lending protocol.
  • Sceptre: Liquid staking solution.
  • Var Meta: Private NFT auction platform.
  • Moonrig: Crypto project research platform.
  • DAT.ag: Crypto project audit platform.
  • Proprhome: Real estate RWA project.

With only a week into 2025, we’ve already announced several exciting projects set to launch this year:

These initiatives build on the momentum of 2024, demonstrating the ongoing demand for privacy-first blockchain solutions and paving the way for broader ecosystem growth in 2025.

With many of these projects expected to launch on mainnet in 2025, Partisia Blockchain is positioned to deliver transformative applications across DeFi, real-world asset tokenization, and privacy-first solutions.

State of the Network: Reflections from Our CEO

“As we begin a New Year, I want to take a moment to thank each of you – our contributors, partners, and community – for your incredible support. 

When I joined Partisia Blockchain in September, I was struck by the sophistication of our technology and the immense potential of our mission. My priority has been clear: dramatically accelerating awareness and adoption of this groundbreaking technology.

In 2024, we:

  • Announced exciting new additions to our ecosystem and built a strong pipeline to accelerate adoption of our groundbreaking tech in 2025.
  • Sharpened our brand narrative, messaging, and visual identity to increase cut through and initiated a renewed marketing campaign to step-change awareness.
  • Simplified browser UI and enhanced features to remove friction for new contributors.
  • Hired critical talent into the team, specifically in Dev Rel with Bettina and in marketing and content creation with Naeem.
  • Rebuilt trust and transparency with operators and community, reinstituting regular and transparent community calls and engagement across communication channels.
  • Defined a clear vision and strategy for growth through 2025, including a clear technical roadmap. All of this will shortly be shared with the community.
  • Strengthened our position as a leader in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), driving thought leadership and innovation.

Looking ahead to 2025, the opportunities are huge. Together, we will unlock the full potential of privacy-first blockchain solutions – the next evolution of blockchain technology.”

  • Adrienne Youngman, CEO, Partisia Blockchain

Looking Ahead to 2025

2024 was a year of progress, partnerships, and purpose for Partisia Blockchain. We are grateful to our community, partners, and contributors who have been instrumental in this journey. 

With the momentum of 2024, we enter 2025 with a clear mission: to lead the future of Web3 with scalable, privacy-first solutions.

Immediate Goals (Q1/Q2):

  • Share updated technical roadmap, project vision, and high level strategy.
  • Mainnet launches for zkCrossDEX, Boostylabs, and Sceptre.
  • Launch the new website – completing the visual identity transformation – and continue the drive to simplify messaging around a PETs category narrative.
  • Deploy enterprise-grade applications in DeFi, identity, and real-world asset tokenization.
  • Launch engaging consumer apps like MPC Poker, private voting/surveys and Private AI Games.

Long-Term Vision:

  • Adoption: Dramatically accelerate growth with web3 and web2 enterprises via a use case focus on identity and date flows in the age of AI. Specifically privacy-first AI and Identity that build the brand at the intersection of on-chain, online, and real world.
  • Awareness: Stepchange project visibility by building a dominant category narrative around PETs and the importance of this technology in the age of AI, ensuring our place within a narrative that is poised for rapid growth.
  • Decentralisation: Drive the ongoing decentralization of the project by fully automating reward calculation and distribution, increasing transparency with our community, and empowering contributors with greater decision making and governance through a DAO.

Stay tuned as we continue to redefine what’s possible in blockchain technology. 

Here’s to an extraordinary 2025!

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