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13 pieces · Jan 2022 to Oct 2026 · 4 flagship

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PHALA $PHA

Calls: 1 bullish
Since first call, bullish: −81%
vs BTC: −90%
Now: $0.0626

bullish thesis bearish thesis coverage, no call map, list or mentionWeekly closes in USD, log scale, as of 23 Oct 2026. Call figures turn cyan when the price moved the way the call pointed. Each marker links to its piece.

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Thesis21 Jan 2022The bull case for privacy: ZK proofs, TEEs and the projects behind themMega thread arguing privacy will become central to crypto. Explains zkSNARKs and trusted execution environments, then maps projects to each approach: Zcash, Manta, Dusk and Mina on ZK, Phala and Secret on TEEs, and Haven for private assets.Breakdown27 Aug 2025Programmable privacy: the next multi-billion dollar infrastructure layerSummary of the A1 Research report on programmable privacy. Compares MPC, FHE, TEEs and ZK trade-offs, maps 12 projects by approach, and argues winners will use hybrid architectures and win on developer abstraction.Article31 Oct 2025The Sentient Ecosystem and the Components of GRIDOverview of Sentient's GRID protocol: in-house primitives (ROMA, Open Deep Search, Dobby, OML fingerprinting) and a partner network across agents, data, verifiable AI and decentralized compute, as a decentralized AGI network.

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2026 4

23 Oct 2026Arcium Blackthorn supply gap: 600 to 4,500 rentable confidential GPUs worldwideArcium's survey of about 80 providers, cited in Four Pillars' Blackthorn deep dive, counts only 600 to 4,500 rentable confidential GPUs, about 0.04% of capable NVIDIA chips. Blackthorn drops the host enclave and binds the GPU to the live key exchange; Charité Berlin is reportedly its first production partner.ThesisPrivacyAI

21 Oct 2026Arcium Blackthorn vs Venice: private AI inference without the Intel TDX chipVenice's encrypted mode relies on Intel TDX, which TEE.fail and DDRop attacks undermined; Arcium's Blackthorn removes the CPU TEE and splits session keys across MPC nodes. ARX trades at $49M mcap vs VVV at $1.3B, a gap he bets will close.ThesisPrivacyAI

21 Jan 2026A1 Research 2026 outlook: tokenization, prediction markets, privacy, agentsTL;DR of A1's 2026 outlook: tokenized stocks and private equity scale, stablecoin yield wars, parlays drive prediction markets, onchain credit scoring, production privacy tech, ZK prover competition and DePIN for robotics.ThesisRWAPrivacyPrediction markets

01 Jan 2026Programmable privacy as a leading 2026 narrativeCalls 2025 the breakout year for privacy led by Zcash and expects programmable privacy to lead 2026, pointing to ZK (Aztec), MPC (Arcium), FHE (Zama) and TEE (Phala) as the stack to study.ThesisPrivacyZK

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31 Oct 2025The Sentient Ecosystem and the Components of GRIDOverview of Sentient's GRID protocol: in-house primitives (ROMA, Open Deep Search, Dobby, OML fingerprinting) and a partner network across agents, data, verifiable AI and decentralized compute, as a decentralized AGI network.ArticleAIDePINPrivacy

27 Aug 2025Programmable privacy: the next multi-billion dollar infrastructure layerSummary of the A1 Research report on programmable privacy. Compares MPC, FHE, TEEs and ZK trade-offs, maps 12 projects by approach, and argues winners will use hybrid architectures and win on developer abstraction.BreakdownPrivacyAIDeFi

14 Jul 2025NEAR AI ecosystem map: TEEs, data, agents and privacy infrastructureMaps eleven AI infra and tooling projects building on NEAR, from TEE networks and training data marketplaces to agent frameworks and privacy layers.MapAIPrivacy

08 Jul 2025NEAR AI bull case: DCML, AITP, Intents, chain signatures and global contractsLists ten reasons not to fade NEAR's AI case: 8 shards with 600ms blocks and 1.2s finality, DCML, AITP, NEAR Intents plus account model for agent capital, MPC chain signatures, free NEAR AI inference and a formally verified Rust codebase.ThesisAIL1/L2

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11 Dec 2024AI agent infra stack map: frameworks, compute, wallets, privacy, inference, dataMaps the infra categories key for AI agents with example projects: agent frameworks, decentralized GPU networks, TEE and MPC agent wallets, chain-abstracted smart wallets, privacy-preserving compute, verifiable inference and programmable data feeds.MapAIDePINPrivacy

08 Aug 2024AI crypto landscape: GPU compute, agent infra and onchain DeFi agentsAlpha list of AI crypto projects in three buckets: GPU and cloud compute, autonomous agent and AI application infrastructure, and onchain DeFi agents. Argues undervalued leading AI tokens could lead when the market returns.MapAIDePINDeFi

2023 1

17 Nov 2023zkAlpha watchlist update: 23 projects across AA wallets, RaaS, intents, perpsWeekly watchlist additions (over 140 tracked, most with no token) with one-line descriptions, spanning OP Stack alt-DA chains, intent infrastructure, Starknet and ERC-4337 smart wallets, tokenized treasuries, KYC L2s and intent-based RFQ perp DEXes built on Symmio.MapL1/L2DeFi

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29 Dec 2022Trusted Execution Environments explained: SGX, Phala and Secret NetworkExplains TEEs as isolated computation environments, often built on Intel SGX, and their role in privacy. Notes hardware cost and secure boot challenges, with Phala and Secret Network as live examples of confidential smart contracts.ExplainerPrivacy

21 Jan 2022The bull case for privacy: ZK proofs, TEEs and the projects behind themMega thread arguing privacy will become central to crypto. Explains zkSNARKs and trusted execution environments, then maps projects to each approach: Zcash, Manta, Dusk and Mina on ZK, Phala and Secret on TEEs, and Haven for private assets.ThesisPrivacyZK

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