From Access Control to Encrypted Execution with Auryn Macmillan

About this episode

Anna chats with Auryn Macmillan about the evolution of Zodiac and the potential of encrypted execution environments in the context of privacy and collaborative analytics.

In this episode, Anna chats with Auryn Macmillan , founder of Gnosis Guild . They check in on Zodiac, which started as a DAO toolset and has evolved into a modular access control suite for on-chain entities. They discuss the state of DAOs today—what's worked, what hasn't, and how tools like Zodiac might have mitigated large-scale multisig hacks like the recent Bybit exploit. The conversation then shifts to The Interfold (formerly Enclave), Gnosis Guild's new project combining FHE, ZK, and MPC to create encrypted execution environments. These enable multiple parties to collectively compute over private data and produce a verifiable output without any single trusted coordinator. They explore use cases like secret ballot voting and sealed bid auctions, the broader potential for collaborative analytics and private AI training, and how this fits into the larger privacy ecosystem.   Related Links Charting Zodiac & DAOs with Nathan Ginnever and Auryn Macmillan theinterfold.com gnosisguild.org How Aztec Raised $59M With 17,000 Bidders Using Uniswap’s CCA     Check out the talks from zkSummit14 in Rome on our YouTube channel here.     **If you like what we…

People in this episode

Host: Anna

Guest: Auryn Macmillan

Topics covered

• DAOs
• access control
• encrypted execution
• collaborative analytics
• privacy
• FHE
• ZK

Keywords

• Zodiac
• DAOs
• encrypted execution
• FHE
• ZK
• MPC
• privacy
• collaborative analytics
• secret ballot voting
• sealed bid auctions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gnosis Guild, Zodiac, Bybit, The Interfold, Aztec, Uniswap

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