In recent years the Web3 space, known for its innovation and community driven approaches, has witnessed a significant shift in its approach to funding and supporting projects. We have identified more than 150 funding opportunities since we began researching them in October 2023, and new grant programs are continuously emerging.
Our work is more than a business for us: We see it as an avenue to advance the use of distributed technologies that empower users, especially their ability to control their own data, since privacy is a human right. These numbers demonstrate how our years of experience can directly contribute
The belief that everyone has a right of privacy, including data privacy, is the base of all the work that we do at Least Authority. Key aspects of building privacy into systems are ensuring that users are aware of the use of their data and enabling them to have choice
Over the last few years we’ve been expanding our Ecosystem Support by including various Security Consulting offerings to meet the needs of the different ecosystems with which we are working. Although our main offering is still Security Audits of codebases and specifications for projects, we also offer consultation sessions, and
Through our work, we have the opportunity to speak with various people in the FinTech, Cybersecurity, and Web3 fields. Recently, one pattern emerged: there is increasing interest in advanced cryptography techniques and protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), and Fully-Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), which can improve users’
With our mission to support the development of usable technology solutions to advance digital security and preserve privacy as a fundamental human right, we see wallets as fundamental to empowering users and our security auditing efforts essential to enabling the effective use of wallets. Wallet developers must implement robust security
Since 2015, Least Authority has been working with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to further enable privacy, improve security, and encourage the implementation of zero-knowledge proofs in Web3 technologies and beyond. Although Zcash spun out of Least Authority with the Electric Coin Company in 2016, we continued to work on zero-knowledge proofs
MetaMask launched MetaMask Snaps Open Beta on September 12, 2023. Snaps extend the functionality of the MetaMask extension, which can then be used by connected DApps, for example, to add support for chains, conduct transaction inspections etc. How MetaMask Snaps Work First and foremost, the extension of the functionality should