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[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero

Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/quadratic-arithmetic-programs-from-zero-to-hero-f6d558cea649 There has been a lot of interest lately in the technology behind zk-SNARKs, and people are increasingly trying to demystify something that many have come to call "moon math" due to its perceived sheer indecipherable complexity. zk-SNARKs are indeed quite challenging to grasp, especially due to the sheer number of moving parts that need to come together for the whole thing to work, but if we break the technology down piece by piece then

London, United Kingdom – February 2023 SEON Fraud Fighter Press Release

‘FRAUD IS GROWING AND BECOMING MORE SOPHISTICATED’ SAYS SEON IN NEW DATA REPORT Fincrime prevention experts SEON has released its latest report, highlighting some of the most pressing fraud trends of 2023. The report leverages internal data from the company’s fraud prevention platform to provide businesses and individuals with the insights they need to stay safe over the next twelve months. Key findings from the report include: Between October and December 2022, SEON saw a 12.9% rise in suspicious user actions, indicating that fraud is rising. From September to December

Experience the Future of Investment Banking with Finalis

Finalis Marketplace™enables independent investment banks to source deal flow  in an easy-to-use, real-time technology-enabled platform SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK – Jan  4, 2023 – Finalis, a rapidly growing investment-banking-as-a-service platform for dealmakers, recently launched its state-of-the-art platform, Finalis Marketplace™. The platform allows investment bankers, placement agents and M&A advisors to offer, find and promote deal collaboration with other dealmakers in real-time without the risk of revealing their clients’ identity.  Finalis provides a unified white-labeled broker dealer platform that ensures a seamless experience for dealmakers. Sourcing, distributing, and executing deals

Bonds, Bitcoin Bonds

Just over a year ago El Salvador made history by becoming the first, and only country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. Much to the anger of the international community of central bankers, they pushed ahead with their plans, doubling down by planning a $1 billion bond release to build Bitcoin City. According to the mainstream media, El Salvador’s experiment with cryptocurrency has been an unmitigated disaster. The country is on the verge of bankruptcy, there hasn’t been widespread adoption of crypto, and the president is a ruthless

A Strong September

Since our last development update, the team has been making remarkable progress with their work on the NFT module integrations. Not only have the frontend integrations for NFT views been successful they’ve also been progressing well with the datapoint integrations on the backend. Whereas other projects may be going into hibernation during this bear market, we’re excited to confirm that our BUIDLing is progressing at a tremendous pace. Frontend In the last update, we shared that the team was working on how to integrate the NFT views into the frontend.

Mainnet Update

One of the silver linings, indeed perhaps the only silver lining, from the bear market disasters of the past few months has been the opportunity it afforded the Paribus development team to deploy our MVP via testnet. Even this however wasn’t free from challenges, so in this article, we dive a little deeper into what the next few weeks and months hold for Paribus. Our primary focus is to be able to transition from the testnet to the mainnet, but at the same time, we’ve also been limited by some