NextBlock 正为一项对公有链日益重要的挑战投入 300 万美元：如何在不对金融机构强制迁移至独立专用网络的前提下，为其提供隐私保护。
NextBlock is putting $3 million behind an increasingly important challenge for public blockchains: how to give financial institutions privacy without forcing them to move their activity onto separate, purpose-built networks.
这家总部位于卢森堡的风险投资公司已为 Soda Labs 的整个种子轮融资提供了资金支持。该公司正在资助 Soda Labs 为公有链上的金融活动构建的可编程隐私基础设施。
The Luxembourg-based venture capital firm has funded Soda Labs’ entire seed round. It is backing the company’s programmable privacy infrastructure for financial activity on public blockchains.
过去两年半的时间里，Soda Labs 一直在开发一种加密隐私系统。该系统将混淆电路与多方计算（即 GC-MPC）相结合，依赖 AES 和 SHA256 等成熟的加密技术，并可在普通云 CPU 上运行，而非依赖专用硬件。
Soda Labs has spent the past two and a half years developing a cryptographic privacy system. It combines garbled circuits with multiparty computation, or GC-MPC. It relies on established cryptography including AES and SHA256 and runs on ordinary cloud CPUs rather than specialized hardware.
这项技术旨在实现私密计算，同时让应用程序保持与现有公有链基础设施的连接。这解决了银行、支付公司及其他金融机构面临的一个根本性问题：公有链或许能提供流动性和用户，但金融数据并不总能对所有人公开可见。
The technology is designed to enable private computation while applications remain connected to existing public blockchain infrastructure. That addresses a fundamental problem for banks, payment companies and other financial institutions. Public blockchains may offer liquidity and users, but financial data cannot always be visible to everyone.
NextBlock 创始人兼普通合伙人 Pieter van Poecke 表示：“吸引我们投资 Soda 的不仅是其底层的加密技术，还有这项技术在金融工作负载方面的实用性——我们认为这些工作负载未来在链上将变得至关重要。Soda 当时已经拥有可用的产品和付费客户。我们相信，其差异化的技术知识产权、技术背景深厚的创始团队以及敏锐的商业洞察力，为该公司下一阶段的发展奠定了坚实的基础。”
“What attracted us to Soda was not only the underlying cryptography, but the practicality of the technology for the financial workloads we believe will matter most onchain,” said Pieter van Poecke, Founder and General Partner of NextBlock. “Soda already had a working product and paying customers. We believe its differentiated technical IP, deeply technical founding team and strong commercial instincts give the company a compelling foundation for its next phase.”
Soda 的技术已在 COTI 网络上处理了超过 1 亿笔交易。在该网络上，它支持包括代币化平台 Zoniqx 和永续合约交易所 PriveX 在内的多款应用。PriveX 的交易额已超过 200 亿美元。Zoniqx 正在吸引多个资产类别和司法管辖区的发行人加入。
Soda’s technology has already processed more than 100 million transactions on the COTI network. There, it supports applications including tokenization platform Zoniqx and perpetuals exchange PriveX. PriveX has processed more than $20 billion in trading volume. Zoniqx is onboarding issuers across multiple asset classes and jurisdictions.
将隐私金融部署在公有链上：Soda 现正将其架构延伸至 gcEVM 之外。gcEVM 是其以太坊 Layer 2 隐私层，目前仍在 COTI 上运行。下一步是 Soda Bubble，一个支持跨链的协处理器，用于实现可编程隐私。
Keeping private finance on public chains Soda is now extending its architecture beyond gcEVM, its Ethereum Layer 2 privacy layer that remains live on COTI. The next step is Soda Bubble, a chain-agnostic coprocessor for programmable privacy.
Bubble 的设计旨在处理来自不同区块链、由开发者定义的工作负载。它在不向公众或 Soda Labs 自身暴露底层隐私数据的情况下完成这一任务。
Bubble is designed to process developer-defined workloads originating from different blockchains. It does so without exposing the underlying private data publicly or to Soda Labs itself.
该公司正在将系统扩展至以太坊、Polygon、Arbitrum 和 Base 等主要 EVM 生态系统。向 Solana 等非 EVM 网络的扩展也在进行中。
The company is expanding the system across major EVM ecosystems including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum and Base. Expansion to non-EVM networks, including Solana, is also underway.
其 Bubble 验证者网络使参与者能够通过数学方法验证涉及隐私数据的计算是否被忠实地执行。
Its Bubble Validator Network enables participants to mathematically verify that computations involving private data have been performed faithfully.
对于 NextBlock 而言，此次投资体现了公司对基础设施的专注——这些基础设施有望让隐私保护计算在真实金融应用中变得可行，同时不会将此类活动从现有的公有区块链生态系统中剥离。
For NextBlock, the investment reflects a focus on infrastructure that could make privacy-preserving computation practical for real financial applications. It does so without removing that activity from existing public blockchain ecosystems.
让隐私计算更快、更便宜：Soda Labs 预计将在未来几周内发布基于 Arbitrum 测试的更新性能基准。
Making privacy faster and cheaper Soda Labs expects to publish updated performance benchmarks in the coming weeks based on testing conducted on Arbitrum.
该公司表示，这些测试衡量的是活网路上完整的交易生命周期，包括加密、MPC 计算、共识和结算，而非单独衡量加密操作本身。
The company says the tests measure the complete transaction lifecycle on the live network. That includes encryption, MPC computation, consensus and settlement. They do not measure the cryptographic operation in isolation.
据 Soda 称，测试结果相比其此前发布的基准，性能提升了五到十倍。
According to Soda, the results represent a five- to tenfold improvement over its previously published benchmark.
该公司还报告称，其混淆电路 MPC 架构可在标准云 CPU 上实现约 10 到 100 倍的更高吞吐量，以及每笔交易成本降低 100 到 1,000 倍。这一表现优于目前可用的替代方案。Soda 尚未公开发布新的基准测试结果。
The company also reports that its garbled-circuit MPC architecture can deliver approximately 10 to 100 times greater throughput and 100 to 1,000 times lower cost per transaction. That is compared with currently available alternatives, while operating on standard cloud CPUs. Soda has not yet publicly released the new benchmark results.
“公有链已经具备流动性、用户和金融应用。它们所缺乏的，是一种能让受监管资金流动而不向所有人公开所有信息的方式，”Soda Labs联合创始人兼首席执行官Avishay Yanai表示。“Bubble通过受控披露，在银行、支付公司和代币化平台已使用的链上为其提供隐私保护。这一轮融资将帮助我们从试点阶段迈向正式生产。”
“Public blockchains already have the liquidity, users and financial applications. What they lack is a way for regulated money to move without showing everyone everything,” said Avishay Yanai, Co-Founder and CEO of Soda Labs. “Bubble gives banks, payment companies and tokenization platforms privacy with controlled disclosure, on the chains they already use. This round lets us take it from pilots to production.”
从试点到生产：这笔300万美元的资金将支持Soda Labs的市场推广策略、验证者网络和区块链覆盖范围的扩展，以及团队扩张。资金还将用于与银行、支付公司、代币化平台及其他金融基础设施提供商的整合。
From pilots to production The $3 million will support Soda Labs’ go-to-market strategy, expansion of its validator network and blockchain coverage, and team growth. It will also fund integrations with banks, payment companies, tokenization platforms and other financial infrastructure providers.
Soda目前还与多家金融和基础设施组织合作开展多个未公开披露的试点项目，目标是将其转化为正式的生产部署。
Soda is also working with financial and infrastructure organizations on several undisclosed pilots, with the objective of converting them into production deployments.
公司由拥有密码学博士学位的首席执行官Avishay Yanai和拥有算法博士学位的首席技术官Meital Levy共同创立。两人合计在安全领域拥有超过20年的经验。
Avishay Yanai, CEO and PhD in cryptography, and Meital Levy, CTO and PhD in algorithms, founded the company. Together they bring more than 20 years of experience in security.
对于NextBlock而言，这项投资支持了一个简单的论点：公有链已经具备金融活动。接下来的挑战是，如何让这些活动在受监管的金融领域具备足够的隐私性。
For NextBlock, the investment puts capital behind a simple thesis: public blockchains already have the financial activity. The next challenge is making that activity private enough for regulated finance. Contributed article.
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