Evan Shapiro
@evanashapiro
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Advisor to and Chairman of the Board at Mina Foundation. Building @MinaProtocol , towards crypto + ZKPs helping realize a user owned and controlled digital world
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Tldr; I'm planning on returning to
@MinaFoundation
in a new full-time role as Chief Product and Strategy Officer (CPSO), to support
@MinaProtocol
post-hard fork!
With the recent release of the upgrade, we are in an important time for furthering ZK programmability and
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Following up our first hard fork with our first large scale test! And, all nodes quick syncing via the succinct blockchain. Crazy to think we've gone from just starting on this a couple years ago to now thousands of proofs flying around on a real network.
Mina's latest public testnet has reached a new milestone!
More than 1300 nodes connected concurrently to Testnet 4.1, making it our biggest release to date! 🥳
Sign up now to get involved in Mina's final testing phase before mainnet launch:
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Very excited to launch
@MinaProtocol
soon with more than 650 Genesis Founding Members from over 60+ countries, all helping to secure the network.
Looking forward to welcoming more community members in the run up to
#MinaMainnet
, join us on Discord:
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I'm very excited to announce that I'll be moving to Mina Foundation. I'm very much looking forward to continuing to serve the project and help realize the potential of Mina's next generation technology.
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Lots happening for
#MinaProtocol
the last couple weeks, a few highlights if you missed anything:
A thread 1/n
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Just waiting until Elon finds
@MinaProtocol
, a lightweight ZKP blockchain is the answer to a verifiable, decentralized blockchain at scale
Has Elon explained yet how Dogecoin can increase its transaction capacity by 10x, while maintaining a blockchain light enough such that individual users can independently verify its state using their own full nodes?
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Mina will be best if we all work on it together! Excited to have a platform where we can collaborate on it
You’re invited - Join MinaResearch today!
Make your voice heard by proposing and discussing your ideas for
#MinaProtocol
in our open-source digital platform.
Learn more about how to get started 👉
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Last year, I predicted that ZKPs would come into their own in 2021 — & I think we can reasonably say they did.
This year, I think
#ZK
will have an even bigger role to play, in enabling Web3 with privacy & security.
Read my predictions to come.
2020 was an eventful year for
@MinaProtocol
, and the
#blockchain
industry as a whole. Check out my latest blog on the new wave of zero knowledge proofs and my predictions for 2021...
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Really excited to welcome
@khem
to
@MinaFoundation
! From building teams from the ground up to holding world-class relationships in crypto and tech, Kurt brings invaluable experience as we continue to grow the Mina ecosystem and roll out programmable ZKPs to Web3.
We are incredibly excited to introduce the
#MinaCommunity
to
@khem
, COO of Mina Foundation.
Learn more about Kurt’s past experiences and why he decided to join Mina Foundation here 🧵
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Excited to support individuals on building Snapps on Mina!
If you have typescript or javascript experience, definitely apply today 👇
Snapps Developer Workshop & Bootcamp ➡️ Dec 7th-12th
Be the first to learn how to build a Mina Snapp. Top participants will be eligible for a 10K $MINA ongoing grant.
If you're curious about
#ZeroKnowledge
or
#Web3
, reserve your spot today 👉
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With all the news today around zkEVMs, I ended up spending some time reflecting on the state of L1s and where we're at - feel free to check it out here
Definitely not comprehensive, but an attempt to collect much of what we're seeing go on in the L1 space
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Mina Foundation has completed a move to Switzerland 🇨🇭 With this, our COO
@khem
becomes CEO, while I will continue to serve the Mina ecosystem as chairman of the board and advisor to the foundation.
I am excited for Kurt to bring his business and operational expertise to the CEO
The Mina Foundation Board appoints Kurt Hemecker (
@khem
) as CEO to champion adoption of
@MinaProtocol
’s ZK tech.
Kurt, previously COO, brings two decades of business development experience from major players including
@DiemAssociation
and
@PayPal
.
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Going live in 30 minutes! Excited to dig deeper into
@nil_foundation
's experience working with Mina tech to build the bridge to Ethereum
See you there!
The Mina bridge to
@ethereum
uses Mina's
#ZK
tech to enable privacy-preserving data verification, efficient proofs, and more.
Meet the team behind the project,
@nil_foundation
, in tomorrow's Light Chat with Evan!
Subscribe to get notified 🔔
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Join me for another live chat tomorrow at 5pm UTC, we'll be talking about key differences between Mina's zkSNARKs and rollups, among other topics!
Video link scheduled here, and subscribe to notified when it starts:
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Very excited the hard fork will be being performed soon!
A lot of work from many people going into making this happen, a big shoutout in particular to
@o1_labs
Developing a big hard fork for a decentralized network like Mina is really like being able to change the engines on a
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Happy
#worldminaday
, see you there!
Set a reminder for our upcoming Twitter Space today with
@evanashapiro
10pm UTC 2pm PT
#worldminaday
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A big step towards fully decentralized access to Mina and crypto, end to end, from your device out to the blockchain.
Full disintermediation means a crypto owned by its users, and not any intermediaries.
📢 Big News
@viable_systems
joins the Mina ecosystem to enable anyone to run a web node on a browser! A new proof of concept shows how close we already are:
☑️ Scalable
☑️ Decentralized
☑️ Secure
Learn more:
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One of the coolest features of Mina's proof system is its recursive ZKPs - new tutorial on using them with SnarkyJS up today! -
Recursive ZKPs can be used to build zkRollups, among other things. Recursion-enabled zkRollups are particularly cool: 1/2
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Happy
#MinaMainnet
Anniversary everyone! Time flies. Has been great building with you all the last year. Looking forward for all the great things to come, as we continue working towards pushing forward decentralization, ZKPs, and protocols powered by participants.
Happy
#MinaMainnet
Anniversary! 🎉
365 days ago the world’s lightest blockchain launched.
Since then we have accomplished so much in collaboration with the community. Today, we are thanking them with a
#giveaway
! 🧵
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This is the direction of travel for Mina -- though we should have it much sooner than 10 years, with some L2s doing this now on testnets / devotes, and soon to be available on mainnet
@ArthurB
@zengjiajun_eth
IMO in 10 years, all rollups will be ZK and will commit blocks with finalized state roots to L1 every slot. It will take a lot of infrastructure and prover optimization to get there, but that's the clear endgame.
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If you've been wanting to see what its like to program with ZKPs, check this out! Only Typescript/JS knowledge needed, and learn directly from zkApps/SnarkyJS devs
And good timing ahead of zkApps testnet, mainnet, grants, and all the possible projects one could build from that
O(1) Labs is kicking off a week of
#zeroknowledge
education...join us on June 20th as we kick off SnarkyJS Week — all things SnarkyJS, including
#developer
workshops, AMAs, a meme competition and more.. details to come 👀
👉
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Upgrade complete, and the foundations for Mina's zk programmability now available! This is afaik the first next-gen zk programmability solution in production, on a mainnet.
A huge shoutout to all the teams that helped make the upgrade run smoothly, and looking forward to next
The upgrade process is complete!
And with it, Mina becomes the first ZK blockchain with general purpose ZK programmability on mainnet
Cheers to the testers, node operators, partners, exchanges,
@o1_labs
, and our community who made it possible 💜
@MinaDevelopers
time to build
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This is recommended reading for digging in a bit to the traditional challenges of blockchain verifiability. For a deeper dive, checkout this post from
@etekis
from a few months ago on more of the landscape:
The limits to blockchain scalability (or, why you can't "just increase the block size by 10x"):
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Big step closer to Mainnet upgrade! Checkout this blogpost too to read more about how it will happen
Devnet Upgrade
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 100%
The network will continue to be monitored over the next few days to ensure the quality and behavior of the chain meet expectations.
A special thank you to both the Mina community and the teams at
@o1_labs
who helped perform
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75% of crypto users in this survey have heard of and understand ZKPs. It’s fascinating seeing so many people understanding their utility now.
And that compromising privacy to use the web isn’t needed.
Shoutout to the
#MinaCommunity
for championing the rollout of this tech.
Zero-knowledge proofs will play a major role in the future of Web3, DeFi and metaverse: Survey by
@MarcWojno
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The crypto community seems to be aligned that the recursive ZKP architecture of
@MinaProtocol
is the endgame for achieving true decentralization.
And with the hard fork, Mina now has that live! Mina has offered excellent decentralization for users, and now can also do so for
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New Mina account! Follow to always have the latest on zkApps
New to Mina’s
#zkApps
? Here are 3 tutorials to get you started building fast — zero knowledge of cryptography required 😏
Hello World
>
Private Inputs & Hash Functions
>
Deploying to a Live Network
>
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One of our goals at Mina Foundation is to build and provide tools and resources to empower the community
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zk blockchain at work!
.
@MinaProtocol
has the highest Nakamoto Coefficient, = 82! 🥴
@ChainflowPOS
:
Mina is most decentralized POS Network.
#PoweredByParticipants
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Hard fork in progress! Network stop slot just reached
The Mina Community will work together to upgrade Mina Protocol mainnet today! 💪
Are you ready?
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... And more to come in the next few weeks! End of the year is always crazy, but excited at our progress and preparing for a great 2022
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A Yelp for Mina tools and service providers! (and already hundreds of reviews for projects!)
Very cool to see so many projects in one place, and be able to leave and see reviews too
Our
@MinaProtocol
tools directory now has over 300 community reviews. Plus we're adding more
#mina
ecosystem members everyday. If you work with
#Mina
get in touch...
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To say more what this means -- one day there will just be one ZKP, that everything eventually settles to. It will be verifiable on your phone, browser, etc. And you'll know all of the applications, platforms, and systems under it are valid.
One proof to verify them all.
That’s the endgame.
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From mainnet launch 1 year ago, Mina in a song <3
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In a short video -- what Mina is about with the new upgrade!
When you do ZK + a blockchain, you get a platform for composing compute -- scalable infrastructure, private proofs of user data, and verifiability, all composable together.
Sorry to break it to you, but ZK is for so much more than just privacy and scaling.
Mina is a programmable ‘Proof of Everything’
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Building a working
#zkBridge
isn't easy, Huge congrats to
@nil_foundation
for getting to this milestone. A big step towards bringing
@MinaProtocol
's zk-programmability to Ethereum and other EVM chains.
And sign up if you want to get involved with proof generation!
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@MinaProtocol
zkBridge to
@ethereum
is ready for take-off. The further launch requires help and involvement from the community
Here go three steps we need to achieve together for the bridge to work:
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Hey, just to address a rumor that’s been circulating - I’m alive and well! Thanks to those that reached out with concern; appreciate your support, and am grateful for the caring community we’ve built here.
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@minacryptocom
@Twitter
@MinaProtocol
@etekis
@brian_p_mckenna
@lamps945
@Trivo16
Yeah that would be an awesome app. Definitely possible, just needs a check on creating a new handle that there’s the identity behind it (perhaps with a check that <= n handles per identity; zero cash protocol could be used for limiting handles per identity)
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The hard fork is now wrapped, and people are starting to build! Check out the blog for more of the current state of the ecosystem post-hf, an ecosystem map, and what is next. And stay tuned as more new projects come online, excited for the new wave of zk applications for crypto!
Mina is now a programmable ZK blockchain.
Mina dApps can uniquely use zero knowledge proofs for better privacy, scalability, and decentralization.
Learn about the projects building on Mina today and the path forward in this blog (or keep reading 🧵) ↓
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We want to hear your opinions - what tools and platforms would you like to see that could work well for an L1?
For example DAOs, governance processes, incentive programs, etc. And, what’s important to you in participating in governance decisions?
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2020 was an eventful year for
@MinaProtocol
, and the
#blockchain
industry as a whole. Check out my latest blog on the new wave of zero knowledge proofs and my predictions for 2021...
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There has been a lot of exciting progress in the ecosystem since my last Light Chat, but it’s especially cool to see developers start to experiment with building zkApps on Mina.
Excited to chat with
@bugrahantemur
about their app tomorrow. See you there!
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One proof of everything, enabling the development of applications supporting scale, decentralization, privacy, and composable compute
What’s better than a fresh upgrade?
A fresh introduction.
Mina is building an Internet of (True) Things with a single recursive proof.
More from
@evanashapiro
and
@khem
↓
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One of the main opportunities with ZKPs is putting private proofs of data on-chain.
That way you get the interoperability of blockchains, while being able to build in selective disclosure, bringing a lot more data and activity on-chain.
Excited to be working with Mirae on this!
Mirae Asset Financial Group to integrate Mina’s ZK tech stack with their tokenized securities platform, building a PoC that allows users to privately and securely prove asset ownership on a public blockchain.
Learn more: ⬇️
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#MinaMainnet
marks the beginning of a new chapter. I’m excited to launch this into the world & see all of the amazing tools and platforms that will be built upon it.
We didn’t do it alone. Thanks to everyone who made today possible
#PoweredbyParticipants
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Snapp workshop + bootcamp, already received many applications, definitely add yours in if you're interested and haven't already -
Snapps Developer Workshop & Bootcamp ➡️ Dec 7th-12th
Be the first to learn how to build a Mina Snapp. Top participants will be eligible for a 10K $MINA ongoing grant.
If you're curious about
#ZeroKnowledge
or
#Web3
, reserve your spot today 👉
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We just celebrated 75K accounts late last week (77.5K now) -
#MinaMainnet
has reached an all-time high of over 75K on-chain accounts.
RT if you are excited about Mina! 💜
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I've said it before, but huge shoutout to the team! The upgrade went super smoothly which was great to see, especially for such a big upgrade of the system (moving from payments & staking to general purpose zkps & an upgrade to the proof system)
We'd like to share what our DevOps said about
@MinaProtocol
's recent Berkley update:
"The update was absolutely hassle-free. The Mina team dedicated a lot of time to answering all our questions and helping us prepare for the upgrade, especially ChrisF, who paid a lot of
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What to listen to, if you want a deep dive on
#Snapps
from the devs working on it
Something for the journey to work tomorrow? Use Cases for
#Snapps
& Snarketplace Dynamics \ Listen to
@ChorusOne
's latest podcast with
@bijan_sha
and
@bkase_
talking everything
@MinaProtocol
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Let’s continue this conversation in my live Youtube Light Chat on April 5th at 4:30pm UTC.
I’ll be expanding a little more on these thoughts & taking your questions. Feel free to prepare your questions for then!
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Latest developments in the ecosystem from last week (thanks
@AstrominaOrg
for putting this together!)
Some highlights:
- Identity proofs for the balkans launched (first zkApp on Mina!, from
@RaidasG
)
- Game launching on Mina
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I'd love to talk with more of you to directly answer any questions and chat about the project. So, I'll be going live on Youtube this Friday!
Let me know anything you want to talk about in this form:
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Not sure exactly what Naval had in mind, but the way I often think about this, is we need better digital institutions -- and privacy and verifiability are key primitives to get there.
It's also one of the areas of crypto I think are most promising to have a positive impact.
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Come watch us talk about the upgrade live!
Understanding Mina Protocol's Berkeley Upgrade
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150k Twitter follower milestone -
✅ 150K Mina Twitter Followers!
To celebrate, we are highlighting 150
#MinaCommunity
members & partners.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of Mina’s journey. Your support has helped Mina get to where it is today - we are just getting started!
#PoweredByParticipants
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Faster verification & prover time with Kimchi -
Mina's newest SNARK, Kimchi, brings faster verification and prover time than the original PLONK SNARK🎉
Kimchi is key to bringing easy Snapps programmability to Mina as participants will soon experience increased efficiency, thus requiring less computing power!
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Having another Light Chat Youtube Live Stream tomorrow at 10am PT! (5pm UTC)
I wasn’t able to get to all of your questions last time, feel free to reply to this tweet with any questions.
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One tool we want to try is , a platform for facilitating collective discussion. Go here to see / add to the conversation
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@tin40963600
@cz_binance
@elonmusk
@MinaProtocol
@MinaFoundation
@nil_foundation
@Phil_Kelly_NYC
@solana
People should really consider this. What O(1) has built with SnarkyJS doesn't just make ZKPs easy, its arguably better for smart contracts in general.
Having things like native zkRollups and privacy by default are just really powerful
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Yup berkeley is back
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Also: VS joining the ecosystem doesn't just mean full node in the browser. It also means a whole other team working on core protocol development.
Super excited to welcome
@viable_systems
to the ecosystem. Give them a follow and check out their blog here
📢 Big News
@viable_systems
joins the Mina ecosystem to enable anyone to run a web node on a browser! A new proof of concept shows how close we already are:
☑️ Scalable
☑️ Decentralized
☑️ Secure
Learn more:
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Checkout our debate on decentralization + TPS. Some nuance in the details, but (my take) when you get down to it, decentralization at scale demands a more efficient architecture (
@MinaProtocol
) than today's choice between downloading ever growing blockchains + permissioned access
Motion: Today’s blockchains can’t increase TPS w/o taking a hit on decentralization.
(Re-match!)
@evanashapiro
vs.
@aeyakovenko
At
@Futurist_conf
6:15pm PDT (Nov 11)
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Come hear us talk about blockchains, zk, and privacy! Should be an interesting overview of the different approaches
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@VitalikButerin
I'm looking forward to a day where people think of zkSNARKs as crypto primitives just like hashing or public key cryptography - til then its a great explainer + we've compiled a bunch more links here (with a range of complexity <-> simpler approximation) -
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5 more access codes available, DM me and I'll send before they're gone!
#ComMINAtyGaming
TileVille is a strategic city-building game where players build and run cities on the island of Nicobar 🏝️
Today
@TileVilleSocial
launched a contest with 1500 MINA in prizes!
Codes to join are being shared by ecosystem friends on X. Grab one and play at
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A huge problem facing cryptocurrency today is interfacing with the real world. We had a really awesome insight how to combine Snapps (Coda's SNARK-enabled smart contracts) with HTTPS to go beyond the
#Chainlink
hype with seamless interoperability with the real world
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With the Mina Foundation, we are aiming to build structures to best serve the protocol and community. If you want to impact that work, please fill out this survey here, to help us best design the Mina Foundation for you:
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With recursion, zkRollup parallelism can be dynamically adjusted based on load (to optimize latency).
And rollups can recursively compose user ZKPs and other zkRollups.
And available to build with today! Checkout the tutorial to learn more. 2/2
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An interesting wrinkle here too - if you're not running the node, you're delegating to someone who is
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Getting secure scaled cryptocurrency to everyone's devices, ZKPs to devs, and a strong community built around the potential of
#cryptocurrency
remain great opportunities for Mina and the world. I'm incredibly excited to continue building that with you all from the Mina Foundation
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A big thanks to everyone at
@o1labs
. It was a privilege and I'm humbled to have been able to serve as O(1)'s CEO. I know it’s in good hands with Izaak Emre and the rest of the team, and I look forward to continuing to work with you and other partners from the Mina Foundation :)
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Couldn't be more excited to work with the folks on the new Mina Foundation! Looking forward to what's next and continuing to build out Mina's decentralization, community and ecosystem
Introducing the Mina Foundation: a non-profit steward of
@MinaProtocol
, supporting the project and issuing development grants to grow the Mina ecosystem.
The Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of its board members, full details here:
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(And checkout zkIgnite Cohort 1, which will have grants for building with this kind of work): )
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Now that Mina is on mainnet, looking forward to this next phase of getting things built!
For now, if you're a dev, check out the navigator's program, with incentives to build zkApps on Mina; otherwise if you’re a user follow the
@MinaProtocol
account which is posting more on
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[1] Productionize applications
Now that mainnet is launched, developers are starting to launch applications to production! Through recursive ZKPs, developers can build applications that bring both privacy and scale together for users.
@MinaFoundation
as well as many others are
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Bitcoin is far from a decentralized utopia, despite what the maximalists might tell you…
OPINION: "We either demand that the properties of user ownership and censorship resistance pioneered by Bitcoin persist. Or, we accept the facade of false-decentralization," says
@evanashapiro
,
@o1_labs
and
@CodaProtocol
.
#bitcoin
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Thanks
@minaproUA
for finding. Stay safe out there, (and please report the fake evan if you have a sec to).
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@0xSamer
Checkout Mina for an alternative with ZKPs, particularly recursive ZKPs -- that way you can verify the entire chain recursively very efficiently for decentralization -- and you can dynamically scale on top through recursively checking proofs of other computation.
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@realSidhuJag
@arjunbhuptani
@nil_foundation
@MinaProtocol
Atm Mina uses ouroboros samasika, (which is probabilistic at the tip), but likely will switch to an instant finality–enabled consensus at some point in the future (at which point it will be both succinct + no rollbacks)
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@VitalikButerin
@el33th4xor
Not sure I'm reading this right, but seems to me there's still lots of room to experiment, would hope we can do better than either token voting or illegibility?
Seems vital that we find governance systems that are both effective and aligned if crypto is to have a positive impact
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@lopp
You should check out what we’ve built with
@MinaProtocol
- Recursive ZKPs provide constant time verification independent of throughput (admittedly low rn until more eng hours go in; but the architecture at least puts a solution in the realm of feasibility)
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This my biggest concern re Ethereum. Crypto has the potential to be really impactful, it getting captured would be a really unfortunate outcome.
Y'all know why
#Ethereum
is gonna get its ETF sooner or later? Because everyone is constantly poking at the protocol rules, so you just have to patiently wait and co-opt tiny decisions here and there, before the entire thing can be captured. Then it's just TradFi as usual.
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Big congrats to the team! Strong milestone as we go towards adversarial.
Mina's public testnet hard fork has been a huge success! 🎉 Testnet 4.1 is running smoothly, as hundreds of community members connect to the new network. There's still time to get involved – join our testnet community today:
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[3] Go beyond just crypto to the broader internet
Recursive ZKPs aren’t just about bringing scale and privacy to Mina - they’re about building a new internet of true, verified statements, and integrating that back to web2 (httpz).
This is particularly true with AI and
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One has to wonder if more democratic forms of consensus are possible? Perhaps one could weight user holdings by their square root (if identity is available as a primitive) or there could be some other schemes
Out of the last 1000 blocks, 420 have been built by just Lido and Coinbase.
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[4] (bonus) Keep supporting community
Prior to mainnet, Mina has had lots of community programs, between the original genesis program for decentralization, and more recent developer programs like zkIgnite and navigators.
With the mainnet launched there's a big opportunity to
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[2] Support the rest of web3
ZKPs have the potential to offer really really powerful privacy primatives for crypto applications. We need to build useful services with ZK and bring them to products on other chains.
If you want to integrate ZK, DM me so that I can help! The Mina
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@UselessJerryQ
@MinaFoundation
@MinaProtocol
We're exploring that now, currently finalizing the technical design stuff (token standard is done but being audited, and there are a few DEXes and bridges in the works, some leveraging ZK features).
Have you seen any other chain's approaches on the launch side you thought were
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Excited to be announcing our new strategic partners in Asia, and to work with them towards a global presence as we approach
@MinaProtocol
mainnet.
Let's keep driving towards launching a massively more decentralized and accessible chain with built-in programmability for privacy!
We're excited to welcome new strategic investors to help us accelerate
@MinaProtocol
's growth in Asia (1/3)
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Is anyone doing research into doing cryptographic operations, particularly decryption, inside of an FHE circuit? Or have an idea how long it will be until this is viable?
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Check out the live chat
@bkase_
and I are having on ZKPs in ~10 minutes too - ZKPs aren't just a set of new features, they unlock a whole conceptual space of programming not previously possible. Check out our live chat to see us discuss and ask questions!
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@minacryptocom
@MinaProtocol
Yep it's early days! But new applications launching every week now too, hopefully pretty quick to the running phase
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@cryptodavidw
That would be super cool - could it be used for conditional trustless decryption as well?
Ex. a zkApp that will reveal encrypted information automatically when the chain gets to block height H, or reveal hidden collateral if one goes under a liquidation threshold?
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@minacryptocom
@verified
Thanks for finding, reported. Any Twitter experts know a good way to get the fake one banned?
And interesting how easy this implies it is to buy followers
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I think this is pretty exciting too; bringing more trust to money and finance made sense for crypto to do first, but there are other places that can benefit from these types of guarantees in a world with platforms and systems like AI holding increasingly broad roles
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@Makalfo
Depends what you want to do? You could definitely make it so only the holder of the NFT could perform a particular action on chain - you could potentially also require the transfer of the NFT to have revealed some secret to the new owner in some private way
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And this will include statements about computational correctness - but also statements about trust in general, with the potential to resolve much of the fraud and mistrust risks with digital and non-digital systems today.
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@minacryptocom
@Makalfo
Has anyone made a DAO that you can only join if you've at some point held a particularly NFT? You could do that, with privacy over which account you owned the NFT with, for one. That plus soulbound tokens seems could be neat.
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