Pascal

before $zama , before #fhe became a crypto narrative. Pascal Paillier changed cryptography. appreciate the likes, @Pascal_paillier Pascal introduced the Paillier cryptosystem at EUROCRYPT in 1999. 27 years later, he’s co-founder and CTO of @zama, helping push encrypted computation from cryptographic research into real blockchain infrastructure. that’s exactly why I’ve been writing about the people behind $ZAMA. narratives can be created overnight. 27 years of cryptography can’t. thank you Pascal .. for the likes, but more importantly, for decades of work helping get us here. #ZAMA #FHE

THE PEOPLE BUILDING $ZAMA WERE BREAKING THROUGH FHE’S BIGGEST BARRIERS BEFORE MOST OF CRYPTO KNEW WHAT FHE WAS … technology changes. narratives change. markets change. Deep technical experience compounds. —- don’t just invest in the company. Pay attention to the people building the technology underneath it. meet Jean-Baptiste Orfila, VP of Cryptography Engineering at @zama. while we’re all watching the price, I’m also looking at the researchers and engineers making #encrypted computation practical. his background is worth paying attention to. —— — PhD from Université Grenoble Alpes, with a background in cryptographic security and secure distributed computation. — Research spans fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), and secure multiparty computation (MPC). — Co-authored the original Concrete research in 2020, helping develop Zama’s open-source FHE technology. — Presented advances in Concrete at @fhe_org back in July 2022, including homomorphic computation on large-precision integers. — Co-authored research published at ASIACRYPT 2025 demonstrating up to 8.28× faster TFHE bootstrapping compared with traditional methods under the evaluated benchmark conditions. — Helped develop sorted bootstrapping techniques to reduce the computational overhead of processing encrypted data. — Named inventor on a Zama patent covering computation on encrypted values. — Contributed to Zama’s 2026 NIST cryptographic submission covering FHE, ZK, and MPC. — Today leads cryptography engineering at Zama, helping turn years of research into practical encrypted computation. —— look at the progression… 2020: Building the foundations of Concrete. 2022: Making FHE more accessible to developers. 2025: Co-authoring research demonstrating up to 8.28× faster TFHE bootstrapping. 2026: Presenting the engineering work behind sub-millisecond bootstrapping. That progression matters more than most realize… Jean-Baptiste wasn’t brought into $ZAMA because privacy #suddenly became one of crypto’s hottest narratives. he was helping build the underlying technology years before most investors were paying attention. and today, September 24, he’s presenting at FHE.org Software Day on how #TFHE became practical. think about what that means. one of FHE’s biggest challenges has been the computational #cost of processing encrypted data. the people building $ZAMA aren’t just researching cryptography. they’re working to make encrypted computation fast enough for real world applications. and for my $ZEC followers, this is another reason I keep talking about the connection between these ecosystems. ZK is part of Zama’s DNA. Different applications. Shared cryptographic foundations. —— @Randhindi brings the vision and entrepreneurial execution. @Pascal_paillier brings decades of cryptographic expertise. Dr. Morten Dahl brings years of experience in MPC and privacy-preserving computation. and Jean-Baptiste Orfila brings years of research and engineering experience making FHE practical. that continues to be one of the strongest parts of my conviction in $ZAMA. Thank you, Jean-Baptiste, for helping build the technology many of us are only now beginning to understand. #ZAMA #FHE #ZK #Cryptography