According to Foresight News, blockchain development company COTI Foundation has announced a $25 million grant through its ecosystem fund to promote the development of privacy-focused projects. The first recipient of this funding is Soda Labs, a participant in the encrypted multi-party computation (MPC) field. Soda Labs will lead research efforts to expand garbled circuit protocols and other multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, ensuring secure and scalable privacy networks for COTI users.