What is Multi-Party Computation as-a-Service?

Blockchain is designed to provide transparency and decentralization. As a result, all transactions are documented in publicly accessible distributed ledgers. Even though openness is a key characteristic of blockchain networks, it also raises the issue of data privacy. Because transactional data is widely available, bad actors can easily find similar patterns across transactions in order to determine and monitor users.

In that regard, the DeFi ecosystem has thrived as hundreds of dApps and DeFi protocols have emerged across several blockchain networks. Despite the fact that layer-2 solutions are geared at addressing interoperability and capacity issues, blockchain's privacy concerns have gone unanswered.

To address this issue while maintaining the key tenets of blockchain technology, next-generation projects began investigating the notion of multi-party computation. This is in order to offer further levels of anonymity to data used in services on blockchain networks. 

Because multi-party computing (MPC) divides calculation activities over several parties, where no entity is able to view the data of the other parties, it assures end-to-end data security.

Nevertheless, multi-party computation (MPC) can provide unrivaled degrees of anonymity as a stand-alone option. To make it useful for the blockchain environment, MPC must be combined with the intrinsic advantages of blockchain technology. 

The best approach to preserve security and still support dApps and DeFi protocols is to make sure that blockchain technology's openness, consensus, and integrity are correctly employed to coordinate MPC without sacrificing privacy. 

Presently, only a few firms have effectively combined MPC and blockchain technology, bringing the desired qualities of both environments to customers and service providers simultaneously.

Also, creating an MPC solution from the bottom up, on the other hand, takes time, energy, and resources. As a result, MPC-as-a-service has arisen as a novel alternative for businesses seeking end-to-end protection for their blockchain services. Consider it similar to the typical software-as-a-service (SaaS) paradigm, in which anybody may rent the services by making a payment to the service provider. 

The MPC-as-a-Service concept allows organizations and individuals to grow their activities as required by allowing them to select from a variety of pay-as-you-go approaches.