Crypto Cafe with Anil Kumar Pradhan: Overcoming Industry Challenges in Cryptocurrency Adoption 🚀

Speaker: Anil Kumar Pradhan, Founding Cryptographer and Cryptography Research Lead, Vaultree FLYER Title: Beyond Theory: Industry Challenges in Adopting Homomorphic Encryption Abstract: Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) promises quantum-resilient, privacy-preserving computation for sensitive data across industries. However, despite academic breakthroughs, the leap from laboratory models to enterprise-scale adoption remains daunting. Industry faces formidable obstacles, including computational resource demands, implementation complexity, slow processing speeds, and high costs, aggravated by a shortage of FHE talent and lack of standardized practices. Integrating FHE into legacy and cloud systems requires extensive technical overhaul, often with questionable ROI. The disconnect between academic solutions and practical business needs, especially regarding scalability, cost, and integration continues to deter widespread implementation. Emerging technologies and optimization strategies, such as hardware acceleration and real-world application benchmarking, may help bridge the gap, but genuine adoption will require collaborative efforts and a shift in focus from theoretical promise to operational feasibility. Bio Anil Kumar Pradhan is a cryptographer specializing in practical privacy-enhancing technologies and their deployment in real-world systems. At Vaultree, he works at the intersection of advanced cryptography and industry adoption, focusing on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), encrypted machine learning, and secure computation at scale. With a background spanning both academic research and enterprise engineering, he bridges the gap between theoretical innovation and operational feasibility. Anil has contributed to projects that bring cutting-edge cryptographic methods into production environments, with particular attention to performance optimization, compliance, and developer experience. He is passionate about making strong cryptography usable, scalable, and impactful across industries that handle sensitive data. Anil Kumar Pradhan is the Founding Cryptographer and Cryptography Research Lead at Vaultree Ireland, and has over a decade of experience in applied cryptography. He holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics and Computing from the Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar.