ARPA bringing value to data holders through multi-party computation Felix Xu is well-suited to his current role as one of the founders of ARPA, a blockchain-based secure computation network of multi-party computation. Mr. Xu attended New York University, where he majored in finance and information systems before working at some investment firms. These experiences gave him a solid background in fintech, big data and blockchain technology. “I was always thinking of how to combine them,” Mr. Xu said. So were some of his eventual cofounders. Derek Zhang has a decade of experience as a data scientist at the World Bank and CircleUp with a focus