To date, it’s been hard to sell data guaranteeing that the seller will receive payment for data once it’s been sent. 

But in a new paper, our team came up with a new scheme that ensures both sides of the transaction: Fair Data Exchange. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/new-paper-alert-fair-data-exchange/

New paper alert from the @a16zcrypto research team!

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Alright it’s just a fancy commit/reveal verifiable encryption scheme.

I’ve actually run into this problem at a web3 startup I worked at.