#ALGORAND The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force and The Florida International University Board of Trustees has received a US Patent Grant for an invention built on Algorand. The invention is for speeding up Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) by using a blockchain - specifically Algorand - as the message-passing layer, instead of slow, clunky peer-to-peer connections. The US Air Force co-owning a patent that: 1. explicitly uses Algorand 2. optimizes around Algorand architecture 3. names Algorand 50+ times 4. claims use of Algorand’s gossip/transaction/note infrastructure 5. uses Algorand private networks means they have vetted Algorand for: A. secure broadcast B. low-latency message distribution C. resilience D. suitability for private blockchain deployments This is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that Algorand is being evaluated or already used as a secure cryptographic messaging layer within U.S. defence research. @EldarDRM @AlgoFoundation