Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M

It’s unfortunate that all the applications right now feel very hand-wavy. Still, $50M in projected contract value is a nice sounding number which probably was used to land the $73M investment. It’ll be interesting to see if they can break out of niches because it’s highly likely that FHE will remain at least an order of magnitude more expensive than normal computers even with HW acceleration.

HN has a major blindspot for blockchain tech. The biggest pay packets for engineers I'm seeing are for AI and blockchain companies, and the liquidity events for blockchain engineers are far faster. There are many deep tech problems in the blockchain space that are interesting to solve, from cryptography to distributed computing to verifiable computation to economic incentives. The valuation of crypto has risen significantly lately, despite endless speculation from the cognoscenti about its demise, and very little chatter on HN about it.

I wish people didn&#x27;t use HN <i>only</i> for self-promotion. One account doing it isn&#x27;t too noticeable, but it adds up when everyone does.<p>Would be cool to write client side solution that checks users&#x27; submission history, caches it on a server somewhere, and automatically hides posts made by users on the spam list.