“Our partnership with Oasis Sapphire opens up endless possibilities for developers and users,” said Ganesh Swami, co-founder and CEO of Covalent. “Developers can now easily build confidential dApps, and users can take control of their data in a decentralized world. This is a game-changing moment for our entire industry,” he added.

Sapphire is the first and only confidential EVM-compatible runtime built on Oasis. Sapphire provides developers with the unique capability to build EVM-based on-chain dApps with smart contracts that are completely confidential, completely public, or anywhere in between on the spectrum of confidentiality.

This latest partnership between Covalent and Oasis centered on the Sapphire runtime extends on a relationship between the two entities started in November 2022. Covalent integrated with Emerald, a separate Oasis runtime built for EVM compatibility without the confidentiality features of Sapphire, to provide developers with reliable, high-quality data that allows them to build dApps with greater speed and ease.

Since 2018, Covalent has been building the industry-leading API with visibility into billions of Web3 data points. With over 100 supported blockchains, the Unified API from Covalent powers multi-chain dApps across every sector of Web3 and is trusted by thousands of dApp developers. With this newly forged Oasis partnership, Covalent now empowers Oasis Sapphire developers to use the same data tools for building confidential, high-performance applications on Web3’s leading privacy network.

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Covalent, the leading provider of indexing solutions for blockchains with their Unified API, has integrated with Emerald, the EVM ParaTime on the Oasis Network. This integration provides developers with reliable, high-quality data that will allow them to build faster and easier. A multichain can be enabled in minutes by simply changing the chain ID parameter.

Other initiatives at later stages will include:

• Decentralizing the Oasis Network data stack for redundancy and validator incentives
• The ability for developers to build their own endpoints in the chain
• Covalent’s analyst mode will allow developers to write SQL to build bespoke dashboards
• Specialized support for Oasis Network

Covalent in a nutshell

Out-of-the-box Covalent brings full transparency and visibility to assets across over 32 blockchain networks and is trusted by over 27,000 developers. Its dataset supports 25B+ transactions, 30,000+ price feeds, and 200,000+ smart contracts for querying. Covalent believes strongly in a future where users have access to composable, verifiable, permissionless, and trustless data.

The Oasis Network is the first privacy-enabled blockchain platform for a responsible data economy in Web3. Combined with its secure layer 1 and modular architecture, the Oasis Network is able to power private, scalable, and flexible blockchain, expanding the technology beyond traders and early adopters to a mass market ready to embrace Web3.

“We’re thrilled to have established this partnership with Covalent. We know that, with this integration, developers coming to Oasis will have a more complete, timely, and accurate overview of the full blockchain ecosystem. Such integration means builders are offered much more opportunity and can create dApps with a variety of use cases thanks to this enriched data source. By empowering developers with these tools, this Covalent integration will help make Oasis a destination of choice.” —William Wendt, Ecosystem Growth Manager, Oasis Network

Developers can pull data from Oasis Emerald ParaTime with Covalent’s Unified API. The blockchain data available includes:

• Token balances per address
• Get NFT transactions for contract
• Historical transactions per address
• Get all contract metadata

“On behalf of the Covalent team, I couldn’t be more excited to welcome the Oasis Network as our partner. With this integration, we look forward to supporting the developers and the next wave of applications built in the Oasis ecosystem.” ~ Ganesh Swami, CEO & Co-founder, Covalent

ABOUT Covalent

Covalent provides the industry-leading Unified API bringing visibility to billions of Web3 data points. Developers use Covalent to build exciting multi-chain applications like crypto wallets, NFT galleries, and investor dashboard tools utilizing data from 26+ blockchains.

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ABOUT Oasis Network

The Oasis Network is a privacy-focused, scalable, Proof-of-Stake Layer-1 smart contract platform that is Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible. Oasis boasts a multi-layer modular architecture that enables the scalability and flexibility to deploy low-cost privacy-focused smart contracts toward Web3 ideals.

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As Meta’s technology partner, Oasis Labs built the platform that uses Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC). This is to safeguard information as Meta asks users on Instagram to take a survey in which they can voluntarily share their race or ethnicity.

The project will advance fairness measurement in AI models. It will positively impact the lives of individuals across the globe and benefit society as a whole. This first-of-its-kind platform will play a major role in an initiative that is an important step toward identifying whether an AI model is fair and allowing for appropriate mitigation.

How the platform will assess fairness in AI models

Meta’s Responsible AI, Instagram Equity, and Civil Rights teams are introducing an off-platform survey to people who use Instagram. Users will be asked to share their race and/or ethnicity on a voluntary basis.

The data, collected by a third-party survey provider, will be secret-shared with third-party facilitators in a way such that the user’s survey responses cannot be learned by either the facilitators or Meta

Furthermore, the measurement is then computed by the facilitators using encrypted prediction data from AI models. Moreover, the cryptographically shared by Meta, with the combined, de-identified results from each facilitator reconstituted into aggregate fairness measurement results by Meta.

Additionally, the cryptographic techniques used by the platform enable Meta to measure for bias and fairness. Providing individuals that contribute sensitive demographic measurement data with high levels of privacy protection.

PROJECTS COMMON VISION

Meta and Oasis share a common vision around responsible AI and responsible use of data. The cryptographic techniques being employed on the platform, at the scale at which they will be used, is unprecedented. This is the beginning of a new journey.

“We seek to ensure AI at Meta benefits people and society which requires deep collaboration, both internally and externally, across a diverse set of teams. The Secure Multi Party Compute methodology is a privacy-focused approach developed in partnership with Oasis Labs that enables crucial measurement work on fairness while keeping people’s privacy at the forefront by adopting well-established privacy-preserving methods.”— Esteban Arcaute, Director of Responsible AI at Meta

Together with Meta, Oasis Labs will explore further privacy-preserving approaches for more complex bias studies. Moreover, given the desire to reach billions of people everywhere in the world, they hope to explore novel uses of emerging Web3 technologies. Underpinned by blockchain networks. The goal is to provide further global accessibility, audibility, and transparency. Conducting and gathering survey data, and its use in measurement.

“We are excited to be the technology partner with Meta on this groundbreaking initiative to assess fairness in AI models, while protecting users’ privacy, using cutting-edge cryptographic techniques. This is an unprecedented use of these techniques for a large-scale measurement of AI model fairness in the real world. We look forward to working with Meta to build towards responsible AI and responsible data use for a fairer and more inclusive society.”—Professor Dawn Song, Founder of Oasis Labs

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Oasis Labs is building a more trusted product with the latest in data security and governance technology. Oasis’ technologies focus on making it easier for developers to incorporate privacy-preserving data storage, governance, and computation.

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Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

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