Ethan Fast

I work across startups, machine learning, biology, programming tools, and public writing. My most recent work is on Vcreate , a company I co-founded in 2020 that builds high-throughput platforms for T-cell receptor discovery; our work has led to multiple SBIR awards, patent filings, and machine learning systems for…

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Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies

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This table is based on research at Nash for work expanding our MPC protocol to secure wallets on new blockchains. We took a snapshot of rankings by market cap in early February 2021. In summary, 74 coins use ECDSA and the secp256k1 curve, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 48 ERC20 tokens. 10 coins use EdDSA and…