Ankur Banerjee 🔑
@ankurb
Senior Product Director @zama_fhe. Co-founder @cheqd_io. Co-chair of Technical SteerCo @DecentralizedID. Ex @FinTechLabLDN, @inside_r3, @Accenture
Privacy is a bit like exercise. Everyone wants more of it, but actually getting it requires work that feels like homework - and nobody likes homework. 📚 This absurdity becomes clear when you look at examples like a cookie consent screen with over 1600 choices. Even if you took…
What makes this data breach case worse is that it’s not a use case where KYC is legally required. It’s one the vast sea of use cases where some of authenticity check needs to happen, but there’s no need to do this by asking for or keeping sensitive personal information. In fact,…
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UK Government- 2018: Here’s GDPR so you can limit what data you give to websites. 2025: Fuck it, send them a copy of your passport & face scan.
I can finally reveal what I’ve been working on for the past year - CloudDump! It’s an app that allows you to *directly* upload all of your most important personal data into a publicly accessible database. Instead of using intermediate steps with the other apps, you can directly…
Working with Claude Code is like getting a junior engineer, training them up to be a senior engineer, then they leave after filling up the context window and you get another junior engineer. Rinse and repeat. Amazing tool though! The trick is to give it lots of tests and logs.
The environmental footprint of training Mistral Large 2: as of January 2025, and after 18 months of usage, Large 2 generated the following impacts: - 20,4 ktCO₂e, - 281 000 m3 of water consumed, - and 660 kg Sb eq (standard unit for resource depletion). The marginal impacts of…
The plan? Build a personal automation agent. We could call it…n8n 4u. (god I hope someone gets the reference 🙈)
Compliance UX that I do not understand: if I transfer anything into @coinbase and it asks me for more details on where the transaction is sent from, if you choose "exchange" then it asks YOU, the user, what the "country of the exchange" is. How on earth am I supposed to know…
"This isn't some whitepaper fantasy—it's live on testnet right now. Confidential blockchain is here."
The Zama team is about to open the gate of its confidential token portfolio and transfer demo app again. Until then, here is a 1-min demo video of a confidential token transfer. This isn't some whitepaper fantasy—it's live on testnet right now. Confidential blockchain is here.
Well. This is pretty fucking cool. Thank you to @AppStore for featuring @bloommoney_co for South Asian Heritage Month! Read our profile on the App Store: apps.apple.com/gb/story/id181… #ontheAppStore #SAHM
Every founder you admire has quietly survived moments that would make most people quit. There’s no playbook for sleepless nights, hiring mistakes, or explaining to your family why you missed another weekend. It looks like freedom, but most days you answer to your own ambition,…
I had such fun speaking to @jennifersiegg for the #AnatomyofaFounder podcast. I was probably a bit too candid about my experience as the daughter of an entrepreneur - now living the role myself. Tune in - or watch me wave my hands about on Youtube! 🤗
We had @ninamohanty on the podcast recently getting candid about growing up in Silicon Valley, watching the startup highs, failures and fallout long before she launched her own. Now she’s building @bloommoney_co with a different kind of clarity. Full ep: youtube.com/watch?v=qShAnK…
The @zama_fhe testnet just processed ONE MILLION FHE computations! Stay tuned, we will soon reopen the demo apps so everyone can participate!
Why is @NotionHQ the only app/website that "needs to reload" to apply cookie settings? It's an annoyance that I can remember being present forever in Notion. @ivanzhao @akothari Every other app deals with client-side state management for cookie preferences just fine. 🤷🏽♂️
TIL @0xPolygon uses Cosmos SDK and CometBFT 🤯
Polygon just threw out YEARS OF TECH DEBT in one go. #Heimdall V2 is set to go live tomorrow and comes with a ton of upgrades. Here are the most significant ones: 1️⃣Finality drops from 90 seconds to under 6 2️⃣Block time shrinks from ~5s to just 2s 3️⃣Tendermint swapped for…
Q. What do you call someone who rules a golf course? A. the Par King 🙊🙈