Vitalik Posts Recommendation for "The Interfold": A Privacy Protocol Optimized for Scenarios Such as Voting and Secret Auctions

BlockBeats News, May 28th - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post recommending the "The Interfold" project, stating that "more people should be aware of Interfold, which is a general implementation of the MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) concept that I have been advocating for almost a decade. The project is essentially a privacy protocol optimized for scenarios such as voting and secret auctions, allowing more people to focus on and understand this technological advancement."

Vitalik also mentioned that the core mechanism of Interfold includes threshold key generation, users submitting on-chain votes with ZKP qualification proofs, performing arbitrary computation in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) followed by threshold decryption, enabling unconditional voter anonymity, Ethereum-level censorship resistance, ZK over FHE to ensure result correctness, and other strong security guarantees. The main current limitation is the high cost of complex computations (such as multiplication), with only additive tallying being mature. Work is underway on optimizations like slashing-based techniques. The long-term goal is to achieve obfuscation to eliminate M-of-N committee reliance.