Silvio Micali's work helped make secure internet communications possible. Now Silvio Micali is focused on making a blockchain that's faster, more secure and less energy-intensive than bitcoin.

Algorand Founder Silvio Micali build many of the technologies that enable blockchains to operate today. In a wide-ranging interview he demonstrates how they are used to keep his network safe and ...

Silvio Micali had been teaching computer science and cryptography at MIT for decades before bitcoin, the first digital currency to gain popular usage, emerged in 2009. Still, it wasn’t until ...

Silvio Micali is an MIT professor and Turing Award-winning cryptographer known for his work in technologies that form the bedrock of blockchains.

My mission became to upgrade blockchain's computational power from something like that of a calculator to that of a ...

Why a Tech Power Player? For fundamental contributions to cryptography, computing, and blockchain technology. Silvio Micali is the founder of Algorand, a decentralized blockchain. He has been on ...

What are zero-knowledge proofs? Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are an innovative cryptographic method that enables a party (the prover) to validate a claim to another (the verifier) without disclosing ...

MIT professor Silvio Micali says his new system allows blockchains to operate efficiently at a large scale.

Silvio Micali is an MIT professor and Turing Award–winning cryptographer known for his work in technologies that form the bedrock of blockchains today: public-key cryptosystems, digital signatures, ...