# Partisia

> Partisia: MPC L1.

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## Key facts

- Entry type: Privacy project
- Category: MPC L1
- Technology: Garbled-circuit MPC (MPC-GC)
- Website: https://partisiablockchain.com
- Tags: MPC, L1
- Canonical page: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/partisia

## Overview

Partisia carries as much academic MPC pedigree as anything in this field, tracing back to the Aarhus cryptography group behind several of the foundational secure-computation results. It turned that into a working mainnet, out of beta since 2024, where MPC nodes compute over secret-shared inputs as a first-class chain primitive rather than as an add-on. Contracts are written in a model built for secret-shared computation rather than in general-purpose Solidity, which is a deliberate design choice and a learning curve. Adoption has been quieter than the research record: daily trading volume sits around nine thousand dollars, and the token trades far below its high.

## About Garbled-circuit MPC

Several parties jointly evaluate a function over encrypted inputs using garbled circuits and secret sharing, so no single party ever holds the plaintext. Compared side by side with the other approaches at https://www.sodalabs.xyz/taxonomy.

## Sources

- [Docs](https://partisiablockchain.gitlab.io/documentation/)
- [The research lineage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Damg%C3%A5rd)
- [Market data](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/partisia-blockchain/)

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