TBILISI, 8 FEBRUARY 2024. Today, Partisia Blockchain, a leader in privacy-preserving, interoperable and sustainable blockchain solutions, achieved a significant milestone in advancing innovation by solidifying ties with Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) under the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Tbilisi marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing efforts to promote innovation using multiparty computation (MPC) and blockchain technologies in Georgia.
The ceremony in the Caucasus nation’s capital follows the successful launch of Partisia Blockchain’s MPC On-Chain Custody Advanced solution (MOCCA) and discussions during the World Economic Forum in Davos about future endeavors with potential partners.
The signing ceremony in Tbilisi drew national state officials, Georgian blockchain industry players, students, Tbilisian press corps and the Partisia Blockchain delegation.
Brian Gallagher, Co-Founder of Partisia Blockchain, says:
“Today’s signing with GITA goes beyond paperwork. It signifies our commitment to driving innovation in Georgia and beyond. Our combined expertise in MPC and blockchain will bring new secure, transparent and decentralized solutions. This initiative exemplifies the power of combining expertise from the public and private sectors. Together, we will shape the future of blockchain technology, ensuring its responsible and widespread adoption.”
In this groundbreaking initiative, GITA and Partisia Blockchain are set to fuel innovation by working closely. GITA will provide crucial support for Partisia Blockchain’s involvement in Georgian blockchain and Web3 ecosystem. Simultaneously, Partisia Blockchain will lend its expertise to assess and contribute to projects in GITA programs, extending grants and technical support where needed.
Ensuring seamless communication, GITA will act as a bridge, fostering dialogue between Partisia Blockchain and various stakeholders, including the Georgian public and private sectors and academia.
Education is a cornerstone of this understanding. Partisia Blockchain will play a key role in shaping the minds of participants in GITA’s educational programs, contributing insights on MPC, homomorphic encryption and their integration with blockchain technology. This commitment to education reflects the shared vision of advancing technology while ensuring knowledge and understanding pave the way for a sustainable future.
Avtandil Kasradze, Chairperson of Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency, emphasized the significance of the understanding:
“GITA is excited to join forces with Partisia Blockchain. This understanding aligns with our mission to integrate cutting-edge technologies into various economic sectors, fostering innovation and ensuring a competitive edge for Georgia. By collaborating with industry leaders like Partisia Blockchain, GITA aims to propel Georgia to the forefront of technological innovation. We look forward to a fruitful understanding that will benefit our nation and the global technology community.”
Partisia Blockchain is committed to playing an active role in GITA’s initiatives, contributing meaningfully to the local and global blockchain conversation.
About Partisia Blockchain: Partisia Blockchain brings unparalleled opportunities by empowering privacy-preserving, interoperable and sustainable innovation for fairness and transparency. It fuels the most secure and efficient networks to solve global problems. Distilled with 35 years of rigorous research, Partisia Blockchain future-proofs solutions, solves tomorrow’s challenges by powering fair, secure, distribution of benefits. While preserving privacy and confidentiality, it brings accountable, transparent and decentralized governance. Learn more: www.PartisiaBlockchain.com
About Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA): Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) under the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development is dedicated to fostering innovation and technology. By prioritizing infrastructure development, opening technoparks and innovation centers, GITA aims to integrate cutting-edge technologies into all economic sectors. The state Agency focuses on increasing investment capital, engaging private businesses and enhancing research through effective processes. GITA’s commitment extends to widespread internet access, quality training, and incentives to drive innovation and technology development, ensuring a competitive edge. Learn more: www.gita.gov.ge
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DAVOS, 17 JANUARY 2024. Today in Davos, Partisia Blockchain unveiled its latest product – MOCCA (MPC On-Chain Custody Advanced solution). The MOCCA solution revealed during the World Economic Forum is a decentralized and fully programmable multichain custody solution designed to redefine the landscape of securing digital assets and ease custodial management.
The key differentiators of MOCCA from the existing custody solutions are its decentralized and enhanced programmability through smart contracts, blockchain agnostic multichain functionality, advanced security and compliance, and configurable privacy.
Peter Frandsen, Chief Technology Officer at Partisia Blockchain, says:
“MOCCA solution marks a significant milestone in the evolution of decentralized custody; it addresses the current limitations of traditional smart contracts and centralization. MOCCA empowers institutions and organizations with genuine decentralization, advanced programmability and the flexibility to secure digital assets across multiple chains. Backed by our decades-long expertise in multiparty computation (MPC), this product is our commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that redefine the standards of security, compliance, and innovation in the blockchain space.”
Partisia Blockchain’s latest MOCCA product addresses the limitations of inflexible and centralized custody solutions, offering genuine decentralization while providing full programmability. This is especially beneficial for institutions, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), wallet providers and exchanges seeking trustless collaboration on securing digital assets.
The fully programmable nature of MOCCA’s custody smart contracts enable policies such as the addition or removal of signers, modification of threshold signature schemes and voting powers, integration of NFTs with special permissions, implementation of specific rules for transaction categories and much more.
Users can choose to bridge assets to Partisia Blockchain or secure assets on their preferred blockchains, offering flexibility and choice. Deployment is swift and cost-effective, directly on-chain, with customizable templates and tools. The MOCCA solution is designed to be blockchain agnostic, relying on MPC technology independent of protocol support.
Backed by 35 years of MPC research, Partisia Blockchain’s newest MOCCA solution ensures security and compliance. Advanced features, such as off-chain signing and key decentralization contribute to safeguarding substantial funds against potential threats. Public blockchains enable automatic key rotation and adjustable transparency levels, ensuring robust protection against attacks. Partisia Blockchain’s MOCCA goes beyond standard custody offerings by introducing security-audited standard policies and allowing for arbitrary code logic.
MOCCA deploys on public blockchains where its code and state are visible. However, key shards are exclusively generated and stored by users or MPC clusters, and then submitted to the decentralized MPC protocol. This allows participants to actively engage in governance and sign transactions directly on-chain—a significant advantage over commonly used TSS protocols, which are challenging to modify once deployed.
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Partisia Blockchain’s MOCCA represents a paradigm shift in custody solutions, offering unparalleled decentralization, security, ease and programmability. The solution is poised to meet the diverse needs of institutions and organizations navigating the complexities of managing digital assets in today’s dynamic landscape.
About Partisia Blockchain: Partisia Blockchain brings unparalleled opportunities by empowering privacy-preserving, interoperable and sustainable innovation for fairness and transparency. It fuels the most secure and efficient networks to solve global problems. Distilled with 35 years of rigorous research, Partisia Blockchain future-proofs solutions, solves tomorrow’s challenges by powering fair, secure, distribution of benefits. While preserving privacy and confidentiality, it brings accountable, transparent and decentralized governance. Learn more: www.PartisiaBlockchain.com
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ZUG, 8 JANUARY 2024. Partisia Blockchain’s advanced multiparty computation (MPC) technology powers the world’s first zero-knowledge cross-chain decentralized exchange (zkCrossDex), developed by TeraBlock. The monumental innovation was made possible thanks to the Partisia Blockchain Foundation’s grants program. TeraBlock’s zkCrossDex, elevated by MPC, ensures transactional privacy and addresses the critical front-running issue in decentralized finance (DeFi).
This integration sets a new standard in transactional efficiency and security within the DeFi sector. TeraBlock’s zkCrossDex aims to make DeFi more accessible, secure, and efficient, contributing to a more inclusive financial ecosystem.
The MPC-powered zkCrossDex seamlessly connects disparate blockchain networks and serves as a standard-setter of interoperability, enabling fluid asset swaps and liquidity flow across diverse ecosystems. Users gain unprecedented access to a wide array of assets and markets, representing a transformative development in the DeFi landscape.
Brian Gallagher, Partisia Blockchain Co-Founder, says:
“Together with TeraBlock, we are bringing a newly developed execution platform for DeFi to real-life use. This will address a few recognized weaknesses with one of the most popular DeFi solutions – automated market makers (AMM). The Partisia Blockchain is designed for scalability, interoperability and privacy and the framework uses all of these to improve AMMs.”
Addressing the complexity hindering mass adoption in DeFi, TeraBlock’s MPC-powered zkCrossDex removes barriers with its intuitive interface, making DeFi accessible and user-friendly – in line with Partisia Blockchain’s ethos of making DeFi more financially inclusive.
Shivam Tandon, Founder and CEO at TeraBlock, says:
“Our zkCrossDex is carefully designed to aggregate liquidity across multiple chains, addressing a pivotal challenge in DeFi and made possible by Partisia Blockchain’s MPC technology. The initiative strategically moves towards a more fluid and interconnected DeFi ecosystem, aiming to revolutionize liquidity management for a seamless and efficient market experience.”
The MPC-backed zkCrossDex represents a significant step towards a secure, more inclusive and technologically advanced DeFi ecosystem. Both Partisia Blockchain and TeraBlock are committed to making DeFi accessible to all, contributing to an equitable and efficient financial ecosystem.
About Partisia Blockchain: Partisia Blockchain brings unparalleled opportunities by empowering privacy-preserving, interoperable and sustainable innovation for fairness and transparency. It fuels the most secure and efficient networks to solve global problems. Distilled with 35 years of rigorous research, Partisia Blockchain future-proofs solutions, solves tomorrow’s challenges by powering fair, secure, distribution of benefits. While preserving privacy and confidentiality, it brings accountable, transparent and decentralized governance. Learn more: www.PartisiaBlockchain.com
About TeraBlock: TeraBlock is a well-established cross-chain interoperability protocol and a DeFi infrastructure-as-a-Service provider focused on revolutionizing the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. TeraBlock is committed to creating innovative solutions that make DeFi accessible, secure, and efficient for users worldwide.
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