Xenea has announced a strategic partnership with Partisia Blockchain to integrate Multi-Party Computation (MPC) into its expanding Layer 1 ecosystem.
The partnership helps resolve the most stressful issue in Web3: the requirement to store information over time while ensuring confidentiality.
Digital assets are today subject to a trade-off. On-chain storage is permanent and normally exposes sensitive data, whereas the use of private storage is based on centralized systems, which renders it unreliable in the event of failure.
This tradeoff has been slowing uptake in heavily regulated industries such as those in healthcare, finance, and real estate.
Overcoming the Storage-Privacy Paradox With Xenea
The storage-privacy paradox, often just called the privacy paradox, refers to the discrepancy between people’s stated concerns about online privacy and their actual online behavior.
Xenea’s infrastructure already includes Decentralized Autonomous Content Storage (DACS), a system designed to ensure that digital assets remain permanently linked to their data.
In cases where data that are to be stored and accessed across the generations, like medical reports or property valuations, need to be encrypted, common encryption mechanisms are inadequate.
Even when data is encrypted, the metadata and the type of work being performed on the computer could still reveal sensitive information.
Partisia Blockchain MPC capabilities can help in this regard. In contrast to the traditional approach, when the stored data is encrypted, MPC allows conducting calculations in private.
Even when performing complex operations like migration or validation between storage nodes, Partisia would never expose sensitive information.
A Future-Proof Web3 Infrastructure
Yusef Fanous, Partisia CCO, said, “This partnership allows Xenea to go beyond resilient storage; it will allow Xenea to transition to global-scale, fully compliant digital infrastructure storage.”
Regulatory alignment was considered to be a priority by Uhara Tokuro (Xenea CEO), whereby GDPR and other data protection regulations were mentioned as the most relevant. “It is important to embed privacy into the base; you cannot afterwards,” he explained.
The collaboration, set to continue through the Xenea roadmap to a launch of the mainnet in Q4 2025, will include a testnet on the main blockchain, which is likely to be launched in Q3 of 2025.
Now Xenea and Partisia, with their partnership, are creating a new paradigm of decentralized infrastructure, one where durability, privacy, and compliance coexist as a matter of design.
