Dr Enrique Larraia

Enrique is a Senior Researcher in the Cryptography Programme at nChain, responsible for producing whitepapers, peer-reviewed articles and prototyping proof of concepts. Enrique has extensive experience in the design and analysis of cryptographic protocols. He is driven by a desire to build secure applications for blockchain. Enrique looks at use cases for zero-knowledge proofs in blockchain, how to programme them in script. He has recently worked on payment methods in the UTXO model that enhance user privacy, including practical zero-knowledge contingent payments, in blockchain-based timestamping, and self-sovereign NFTs. He’s also an expert at the intersection of blockchain with zero-knowledge proofs, threshold cryptography, electronic auctions or voting, digital token systems, and cross-chain interoperability. He holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Complutense University of Madrid, a Master’s in Mathematics of Cryptography and Communications from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a PhD in Cryptography from the University of Bristol.