I am honored to be taking the reins as CEO of
@MinaFoundation
in service of
@MinaProtocol
There is an urgent need for zero knowledge proofs to safeguard online privacy and improve security, and I believe Mina is the best place to build innovative solutions with ZK.
Stepping
📅 Announcement: The Berkeley upgrade for
#MinaProtocol
is all set for June 4, 2024! Thanks to the incredible product and engineering teams, block producers, and core contributors for making this possible! 🚀🔒
Get ready for a new era of
#Blockchain
with programmable ZK proofs!
http is the standard protocol for data exchange on the web.
https added security using encryption and a trusted authority.
httpz introduces assurance, allowing users to verify the integrity of the data they’re interacting with using zero knowledge proofs and the Mina network.
Mina zkApps with Celestia underneath ✨
@CelestiaOrg
’s modular data availability layer is coming to Mina Protocol, enabling higher-throughput zero knowledge applications and L2s
@__geometrydev__
will spearhead the integration work with technical support from
@o1_labs
🧵
Interest is definitely growing in ZK-Snarks; Mina Protocol's zkApps is probably the most programmable platform for developing zk-snark based proofs.
@MinaProtocol
@MinaFoundation
#zeroknowledge
Ever wondered how specifically ZK-SNARKs are used to preserve privacy, including some of the non-obvious tricks like how to prevent double-spending, and what the limits of ZK-SNARKs are?
This post tries to explain some of these ideas:
I love this! Yet another example of
@o1labs_
and
@MinaProtocol
affinity with EVM since there's a bunch of Groth16 primitives out there from earlier pioneers in the Ethereum zk world.
Mina’s Devnet upgrade is the final milestone before the major Berkeley upgrade that will bring easier ZK programmability and other key features to mainnet.
@MinaFoundation
is excited to share that after a thorough evaluation with ecosystem partner
@o1_labs
, the date for Mina’s
Congrats to the Mina community and to all the teams involved at
@o1_labs
and
@MinaFoundation
! Berkeley is now live bringing zkApps functionality on
@MinaProtocol
! This is just the beginning but it is a major step forward!
Exciting news! 🚀 Today, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Open Beta for
@punkpoll
on the
@MinaProtocol
. 🗳️ This partnership brings ZK-voting, privacy, and security to the forefront of blockchain technology. Thanks to our amazing team and partners for making this
Mina's mainnet upgrade has unlocked new privacy applications, paving the way for innovative solutions in the blockchain space.
Key highlights:
🔹 The Berkeley upgrade introduces programmability to Mina, enhancing its capabilities.
🔹 Mina's unique zk-SNARK proof system ensures
Berkeley update for
@MinaProtocol
makes this crazy project even crazier. The L1 with the strongest ZK primitives, a focus on application development, and a positive-sum approach to other ecosystems. We're super excited about 2024.
Mina’s community-governed innovation fund is back to support even more ZK developers and entrepreneurs ⚡
Cohort 3 launches TODAY with 2 MILLION MINA available in grants!
Full details ↓
With our
@class_lambda
Mina team we are actively progressing to have an MVP ready by mid March for the
@MinaProtocol
to
@ethereum
bridge:
This update was written by the team. I am still checking PRs and oversighting the project. I have been talking with
Awesome week in Amsterdam with the team and the wider developer ecosystem! Loved hearing how developers appreciate being able to use tools like TypeScript which they are already so familiar with :)
That’s a wrap on
@EFdevconnect
AMS!
👉 Record breaking 165 hackathon submissions
🌟 Mina received 9 of them!
Congrats to the teams who will receive a prize from
@MinaFoundation
:
1) Mina Voter
2) Mina Snap
3) Flexergy & MinaFT (Tie)
More details on the projects here 🧵
More hot 🔥news from the Mina community! The newly audited fungible token standard for
@MinaProtocol
enables minting, burning, and transferring tokens, enhancing the ecosystem for projects like asset tokenization, DEXs, and in-game currencies!
Mina’s Fungible Token Standard is here!
After concluding an audit by
@VeridiseInc
, the standard is ready-to-use to create and manage custom tokens on Mina Protocol.
This standard allows for minting, burning, and transferring tokens, adding a new layer of functionality to the
Checkout this video of a while back …. And here we are today. Mina has done it. Infinite recursive zk-snarks and the 1st layer one with zk programmability on mainnet. The ultimate blockchain. Proof of Everything.
Kudos to the likes of
@evanashapiro
@bkase
and the
Mina Türkiye Telegram grubu yine bildiğiniz gibi.
Gruba girdiğinizde bulabilecekleriniz, spekülasyondan uzak,
#Mina
Protocol'e ve sektöre dair fundemental konularda sohbetten başkası değil. Sıkıcı olabiliriz ama kaliteden ödün vermiyoruz. 😅
Grup:
The future is verified.
@alignedlayer
will soon verify Mina proofs on Ethereum, fast and affordably.
This includes Mina’s succinct blockchain proof and the hundreds of thousands of proofs recursively rolled up in it, enabling a powerful Mina → Ethereum state bridge.
🧵 1/4
Big news today for
#o1js
!
Two of our most requested features, Keccak hashing and ECDSA signature verification, have just landed in o1js v0.15.1
Let’s take a look at why we’ve worked hard to deliver these features and the use cases they unlock 🧵
Looking for
@MinaProtocol
to
@ethereum
bridge core demo? Welcome to the Mina’s state proof verification in-browser step by step walkthrough deployed to Ropsten:
🎉 Happy New Year! 🌟 As 2024 unfolds, let's embrace the power of zero-knowledge proofs - a beacon of authenticity and control over our own data. And whether online or IRL, may this year empower us all to be true to ourselves, with the strength of privacy and trust. Here's to a
Blockchain: La Fondation Mina s’installe à Genève
Le très en vue protocole «Zero knowledge proofs» Mina vient de s’installer à Genève, avec désormais un nouveau CEO genevois. En 2022, une vente privée de jetons avait permis de lever 92 millions de dollars
Thank you to all the Cohort 1 builders, electors, and community participants!
Your innovative thinking and collaboration was so inspiring 🫶
If your project did not receive funding, we strongly encourage you to revise and resubmit in Cohort 2.
Not worth quibbling at this stage over classification as we are all collectively pursing and growing product market fit. I do love to see how Mina and it's community are growing in terms of representation here, 'chapeau' to all these great builders!
1. Mina
@minaprotocol
: Core
Introducing the ZK Market Map! We’ve charted 250+ crypto projects advancing zero knowledge (ZK) tech.
This detailed map is an extension of our Crypto Market Map meant to showcase the differences between projects within ZK subsectors.
Why did we make this and why does ZK matter?
Random thoughts over the weekend …
… working in open space and in person with your team members is fantastic for the collective brain of the org and communication by osmosis … however … It breaks down when there are online video conf calls, either different calls or even
GameFi's success in 2024 will be about building great interaction design using zero-knowledge protocols like
@MinaProtocol
&
@ZekoLabs
. Thanks
@Cointelegraph
, for letting me share some thoughts 😎
Folks have to say this was a pretty good week for Mina .... so much hardwork finally showing progress. There is still a lot to do but let's just take a look at 3 pretty significant things this week...
Zero-Knowledge can help bring crypto and regulators together, simultaneously upholding crypto principles and ideals while enabling responsible and sensible regulation.
Very exciting news X family!! I am super pleased to be able to start working even more closely with
@evanashapiro
and helping to usher in a new era of private and scalable zk powered applications together with the Mina community!
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
The first Berkeley block on Mina has been created! 🎉 Today has been a big day for
@MinaProtocol
!
This milestone brings us closer to our vision: Proof of Everything, which:
👉prioritizes truth
👉reduces costs
👉preserves privacy
👉ensures verifiability on any device, anywhere.
I am delighted to share that Daniel Schoenberger has joined
@minafoundation
executive team as our new General Counsel. Daniel brings a wealth of expertise, with over two decades of experience at the intersection of legal practice and deep-tech industries. His remarkable
If you skipped ETHDenver, this one’s for you 🫵
Tomorrow we’ll debrief the hottest topics and narratives from the conference this year with ecosystem partner
@o1_labs
.
Tune in 🎙️
Join tomorrow to catch up on the latest o1js features with ecosystem partner
@o1_labs
!
This technical conversation will cover exciting use cases and what’s currently possible on Mina ✨
It is so great MINA is now supported on Copper
@CopperHQ
providing a great platform for institutional clientele to participate in the Mina
@MinaProtocol
community and security of the network!
Copper has enabled custody and staking support for MINA, the native currency of
@MinaProtocol
, a next-gen zero knowledge (ZK) blockchain.
This integration expands options for institutional clientele to participate in the Mina community. Institutional users of Copper’s
@theankk
@MinaProtocol
Thank you for the support
@theankk
. I am confident we’ll all get there …wagmi! The teams are keeping their heads down and focussed on delivery. There are 100’s of people across several organizations and community involved in this upgrade. This is the decentralized infrastructure
미나(Mina)와 미래(Mirae)는 밝습니다! 😎🙏
1/ 협약에 따라 양사는 토큰증권(ST) 통합플랫폼에 미나 프로토콜의 영지식증명 기술을 연동하고, 유저들이 안전하게 퍼블릭 블록체인에서 자산 증명을 할 수 있는 개념 증명(Proof of Concept, PoC)을 진행할 예정이다.
#Mina
#MiraeAsset
#zk
#sto
@nntaleb
A good friend of mine recently introduced Victor Frankl's concept to me: "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness."
Naval predicts a surge in content creators.
Authenticity is now the real currency.
Personal brands, built on real stories, are becoming powerful assets, diversifying income streams.
Great integration of ZK and NFC to address a real problem. Super timely coming off the rumoured hack of this background check provider where purportedly several billion records were leaked
The future of trust is provable expression.
Today, we are open-sourcing OpenPassport, an identity wallet that generates zero-knowledge proofs from government-issued passports.
Let's extend a warm welcome to
@MinaFoundation
, our newest Corporate
#CVA
Member! 📣
The
@MinaFoundation
supports the
@MinaProtocol
and its ecosystem. The Foundation aims to advance Mina's goal of creating a secure
#web3
with zero knowledge proofs— ushering in a new era of
Woah. Shocking news about AT&T's data breach affecting 100M+ customers. This underscores the critical need for zero-knowledge proofs to protect our private data.
@MinaProtocol
BREAKING - MASSIVE: AT&T Announces Massive Data Breach Affecting Over 100 Million Customers, Virtually All Of Their Customers, Exposing Their Text Messages, Pictures They Send To Lovers, Secrets They Share, Videos. WATCH
🔜 Next on The Smart Economy Podcast:
@khem
of
@MinaFoundation
dives into the real meaning of privacy vs. anonymity with zero-knowledge proofs. Learn how ZK tech can verify KYC without exposing your personal data. Coming soon! 🚀
Previous eps:
Happy Wednesday Everyone! Guess what? If you guessed gaming on
@minaprotocol
has arrived, then you guessed correctly!!!
Do you have an access code for
@TileVilleSocial
? I've got 5. RT & DM me before they've gone and start playing with
@ZkNoid
.
#ComMINAty
Excited to be working with you in this new chapter Brandon! And much appreciation to
@etekis
and the legacy he leaves the Mina ecosystem. Looking forward to what comes next!
Today, I am honored to step into the role of CEO of
@o1_labs
. Grateful for the incredible legacy left by
@etekis
and I'm committed to building on top of our successes for this next chapter of o1Labs' journey!
“zkApps have the most convenient framework for working with zk-SNARKs” –
@MarekNarozniak
Learn more about Marek and LendApp, the
#ZK
lending app he and Vim Wickramasinghe built for proving your credit capabilities without revealing sensitive data.👇
For anyone trying to wrap their head around how zkApps work and in particular the innovation to zkApps that
@MinaProtocol
brings,
@WillCove
's threads are a great place to start.
zkApps explainer (continued)
A zkApp is essentially a summary of proven statements located within an account on the Mina blockchain (inside of the Mina ledger).
Users can interact with zkApps by sending special “zkApp transactions” to the Mina blockchain. These zkApp
@evanashapiro
@MinaFoundation
Thank you Evan, I am honored and excited to be able to join you and the team at Mina Foundation to help build on the tremendous momentum of the Mina Protocol and its holistic zero knowledge product suite!
A major event happened this week.
@MinaProtocol
completed the Berkeley Upgrade.
What does it mean for Mina's future? And for the ZK space in general?
This Monday, June 10th, we will talk about Mina's present and future with
@bkase_
and
@evanashapiro
.
Join below 👇
Do you or anyone in your organization want to learn how to write zero-knowledge smart contracts? Registrations are now open with the Mina Protocol community O(1) Labs!
Get ready for the upcoming incentivized testnet by learning how to write a zkApp!⚡️
@o1_labs
is hosting
#ZeroKnowledge
smart contract programming workshops for beginners & advanced developers, office hours, competitions, AMA’s, & more.
Register here ⬇️
Think you can tell if a social media account is a bot? What about as AI gets better?
A new paper—co-authored with researchers from ~20 orgs, & my OpenAI teammates Zoë Hitzig and David Schnurr—asks this question: What are AI-proof ways to tell who’s real online? (1/n)
Many folks worry about a dystopian future with AI and LLMs. The
@MinaProtocol
with its zkProgrammability can be used to bring its security and privacy features to AI and LLM to help bring out the best utility and most positive attributes of AI tech.
zkConnect: A quick recap!
#DevConnect
Istanbul is behind us; I wanted to write a thread about Mina’s
#zkConnect
, one of the most striking events of the week, where I made many new friends.
😃Let's start,
Check out this fantastic update from o1Labs -> community-centric engineering. This isn't just buzzwords (although it does have me buzzing :) ) it is real actions and deeper involvement to help the community accelerate and unleash innovation through the powerful Mina technology
Developers creating more powerful apps with programmable cryptography?
That's the internet we’re building. 💪🌐 Learn how our community-centric engineering focus is bringing this future to life with Mina Protocol.
Read the blog!
🚀🚀🚀 MinaNFT is NOW LIVE on
@MinaProtocol
Mainnet! You can now mint, sell, buy, prove, and verify NFTs with ease on . Our latest Contract V2 brings full marketplace functionality to enhance your NFT experience. 🚀
✨ Let's make NFTs extraordinary
Entrepreneurship is an endurance sport, so a cycling metaphor’s a must. ‘23 was Team Time Trial for
@Affirm
. So hard, yet so rewarding. We all took turns on the front, sheltered in teammates’ wheels, only to pull again. Stages to go, but in ‘23 we were at our best. Onward to ‘24!
Photon Bridge to connect the lightest blockchain
@MinaProtocol
with light nodes of
@CelestiaOrg
. Mina’s data availability problem is now solvable with Celestia's modular design.
Let’s dive in on the problem, how we have solved it, and why it was a pain to solve!
1️⃣ MINA PROTOCOL | NEWS OF THE WEEK
🔸 Mina Fungible Token Standard is now live!
A big milestone for Mina's tokenomics, unlocking numerous possibilities like memecoins and project tokens.
🔸 Governance Knowledge Hub Launched!
New pages on Notion keep the Mina community
... heard this was an amazing event - everyone I spoke to who had been to it was super charged up about the future of ZK! Like supercharged. Maybe it was the after effects of the massive solar storm but there was an energy I've not seen before!
#AlignedPartnerships
: 019
We’re excited to announce the alignment of the ‘Proof of Everything’.
Yes,
@MinaProtocol
will verify their Ethereum proofs with Aligned!
We need an internet full of true and verifiable information.
Aligned and Mina are building this. ✅
Report out from
@wef
on top 10 emerging technologies. Number 2 on the list is is "Privacy-enhancing technologies Empowering global collaboration at scale".
📣 One step closer to easier ZK programmability on mainnet.
Testworld Track 3: Network Performance Testing starts today!
Over the next weeks, the community will stress test the network to have a high level of confidence for Mina’s upcoming major upgrade.
Read the blog to learn
Super excited to have Viable Systems join the Mina Protocol ecosystem and equally exciting their work on developing a web node --- in other words enabling a browser to run as a blockchain node!
📢 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:
Looking forward to a September walk down Las Ramblas! Even in a city of heavyweights like Gaudí, being lightweight and minimalist can still steal the show! 😀
@EBlockchainCon
Excited to introduce
@khem
, CEO of
@MinaFoundation
, as a distinguished speaker at the 10th European Blockchain Convention!
Kurt brings over two decades of experience in Web2 and Web3, having held senior roles at Diem Association (formerly Libra) and PayPal. His expertise in
Chapeau to
@WecanGroupSwiss
for organizing Web4Connect! Greatly looking forward to this! Save the date for September 10, 2024, from 2pm to 7pm, at the Four Seasons Geneva. This 1st edition event focuses on the future of Blockchain, Web3, AI, and Finance. Organized by the