As my FHE career has progressed I find myself getting a LOT of attention from blockchain folks who want to do FHE on the ethereum blockchain (as well as zero-knowledge practitioners funded by various blockchain startups).
I'm not a huge fan of this development. Doing my best to keep my distance from it, and see what I can do about getting non-blockchain FHE work in production ASAP :)
@j2kun I guess I was assuming that FHE was still far from being practical (having not followed this topic much). Are you talking about something plausibly useful for some practical purpose or more of a proof of concept?
OTOH, I guess the real killer app for crypto would be if it could provide confidentiality and proof of work all at once. 😜
@j2kun Yeah, I was asking about FHE. The blockchain bit was just a joke. I can see why it's of interest for ethereum, but I'm pretty skeptical that the ethereum blockchain will ever be a useful computation environment (FHE or not) in the way web 3.0 boosters had hoped. Anyway, I'll take a look at the page you indicated.
@internic I'm not staying super informed about what is going on in the blockchain world here, but there is a lot of funding to do FHE and ZKP on ethereum.
I wrote jeremykun.com/fhe-in-production in case you want to see what is actually being used.