We're beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up the past few weeks...
💰🎟️ Weekly Raffles 🎟️💰
We're putting the private keys of funded EVM accounts on
@AleoHQ
and raffling them off – every week!
The first week's prize is 420 USDC on
@Scroll_ZKP
🫡
Unveiling Puzzle Wallet on Aleo for iOS!
The first mobile wallet for programmable ZKP privacy chains.
Aleo account abstraction, walletconnect, multisigs, fast proving and fast syncing with full privacy.
Try it today and earn!
Read below for details 👇
🚰 Puzzle is now running an official Aleo faucet at
Get some testnet credits and piece together some Aleo fun!
Aleo Testnet Credits hold no monetary value and are for testing purposes only.
We are proud to announce that
@gonucleo
has completed a $4 million seed round to develop private multi-sig infrastructure for any organization to go web3-native.
You may have noticed something surprising in your Puzzle Wallet during ETH Denver.....
🎊 INTRODUCING PUZZLE POINTS 🎊
We are actively shaping the Puzzle points program with the community -- see Discord Link below to grab a role and join
Full blog post link at end of 🧵
The legal actions over the past year have made it a scary time to be a dev working in the ZK privacy space.
SBF is doing media tours and 3AC is raising a new fund, meanwhile the only person in jail is an open source privacy dev.
So why buy the constitution with
@WAGBTC
?
👇 🧵
🚨 Puzzle is coming to
@EthereumDenver
🚨
Full Puzzle schedule @ ETH Denver coming soon!
Play some on-chain games. Win some real world prizes.
Only possible on
@AleoHQ
It's been 24 hours since we released our official 🚰 Aleo Testnet Faucet, and we've already funded over 2,500 requests!
We're excited to continue supporting the Aleo ecosystem 🫡
Get your drip on at 💧 (15 credits every 2 hours)
Introducing Puzzle zkGames & Giveaways for devs on Aleo 🎁 :
Weekly giveaways for developers of up to $500 for building zkGames on Aleo with Puzzle Wallet & Puzzle SDK. First giveaway task starts today and will be due by Friday, January 12th at 5PM EST!
Details below👇
Wow! We are genuinely overwhelmed and grateful for the response and support shown with over 1200+ signups, inbounds, and emails. We are so excited to be part of building the future of private web3 and to empower orgs to truly take control of their finances...
3/ Don't have iOS? Don't worry -- you can earn and experience Aleo account abstraction with our chrome extension. Just download and click on the quest in the app to get started.
1/ The next version of Puzzle Wallet is here! 🔗 🧩
(Chrome 0.2.17, iOS 1.4.2)
Aside from some UI polish 🎀, we've got some solid new goodies for everyone including a faucet, rejected transaction checks, and in-app network status indicators.
Read on for more details...
🚢 new Puzzle Wallet build shipped 🚢
🔗 Puzzle Wallet v0.2.18 (Chrome extension) has been released 🧩
One of our four brand pillars is Real -- so we are keeping it real to walk through the changes this week!
⭐️Feature add: easy Public<>Private conversion of Aleo Credits 😎
4/ We started this work all the way back in our Nucleo days in partnership with Aztec & Aleo at the end of 2022.
If you want to read more about what went into the design and thought process - read more here!
📣 It's that time again.... another
#puzzleraffle
is underway! 🎟️
Download Puzzle, earn some Points, and enter the Raffle for your chance to win 420 USDC!
Links below 🧵
Coder, designer, or puzzle-solving, privacy-curious innovator? Nucleo and
@404DAO
are launching a community to help all you builders out there create new zero-knowledge-powered dApps.
Links in thread!
Based and bullish -- use cases got me ready to run through a brick wall
🪪 zkID ✅
💳 zkPayments ✅
🏢 Onchain orgs ✅
🎮 zkGames ✅
🧠 AI x Crypto ✅
We are blazing the trail at the nexus of zkGames & onchain orgs at Puzzle -- can't wait for mainnet!
New
@theindexshow
! Host
@afkehaya
joins
@apruden08
, CEO of
@AleoHQ
, a privacy-first blockchain. Learn how zero-knowledge proofs are shaping the future of data security and anonymity. Listen now! 🎧
In light of Aztec Connect shutting down - we'd like to clarify what this means for Nucleo and our private multisig users and waitlist going forward:
(n/7) 🧵🧵🧵
Nucleo allows orgs to shield their treasury and operations in order to maintain a competitive edge, stay delta-neutral, avoid front-running / flash loan attacks, and protect the privacy of their contributors. Check out the blog post to dive into these use cases! [6/9]
We're building with the leading privacy networks like
@aztecnetwork
and
@AleoHQ
, leveraging the latest in multisig and zero-knowledge cryptography. [7/9]
5/ We’ve given a talk at ZK10 and open sourced an early shell so you can experiment with making your own native iOS experience.
See GH repo link below for more!
1 yr later and the last privately held copy of the Constitution is up for bid... Stoked to team up with
@The_PeopleDAO
@juiceboxETH
to do this!
Anon - u ready to show everyone what the real crypto ethos is all about?
If so, hop in the discord to help:
We're currently in private beta with our early partners at
@aztecnetwork
, and we continue to expand our offerings with programmable transparency, cross-chain movement, and other features enabled by
@AleoHQ
,
@EspressoSys
, and
@anomanetwork
. [8/9]
Would you want your personal financial activity openly available and accessible to anyone anywhere 24/7? What about your business's? We didn't think so, but unfortunately this is the case for any on-chain operations. It shouldn't have to be this way! [2/9]
Want to learn more and/or get involved? Interested in working at the bleeding edge of privacy-enabling cryptography? Send us a DM, and check out to get on the waitlist. [9/9]
Congrats to the
@EspressoSys
team on the announcement of the first testnet!
If you haven't been following, recommend grabbing some coffee and catching up on their blog posts ☕️
Particularly exciting innovations and exploration on sequencer design :)
Espresso Sequencer Testnet 1 - Americano - is now released to the public!
Americano is an internal testnet. In future releases, we will start engaging with external validators. Reply here or send us a DM if you are interested!
At Nucleo, we're building the first private, non-custodial, auditable multisig on Ethereum capable of private transactions, DeFi, fundraising, and more. With Nucleo, your org can easily operate on-chain and compete with traditional companies. [5/9]
Aztec Connect on Ethereum has been sunset.
But a version of Aztec Connect on
@Scroll_ZKP
may yet rise!
See
@zkmattwyatt
's hackathon-winning implementation of Aztec Connect on Scroll's zkEVM Alpha Testnet:
A common belief is that this transparency is the only way to offer trust, auditability, and accountability to your community. However, improvements in zero-knowledge and multisig cryptography offer these aspects with privacy by default and optional transparency. [4/9]
Thank you for your patience as we work through the waitlist. We will be reaching out over the coming weeks as we expand the private beta. You will hear from us soon — things are just getting started!
Privacy tech is hard.
Crafting circuits to create zero knowledge proofs for some given logic? Hard. Preserving privacy? Harder.
Developing those circuits to work on EVM specs - good luck.
Moon math and systems to productionalize it? Make it usable? Sheesh - it's tough.
Leveraging advanced multi-signature and zero-knowledge cryptography,
@gonucleo
is encouraging
adoption of blockchain systems with privacy by offering non-custodial, programable, and auditable
solutions.
Don’t worry — we’ll drop the hype edit soon!!
Some pics from the team at ETH Denver!
Make sure to come to the hackathon tomorrow all day at Catbird for more zkGames & Giveaways!
$3000 for hackathon participants for best zkGame & $1000 worth of prizes for wallet use!
🚢 Puzzle Wallet Weekly Update 02/23 🚢
One of our 4 brand pillars is wild → spicing up the update this week by throwing some Nardo on the demo 🥵
iOS & Extension:
💱
@AlphaSwap_dex
integration is live and has been added to zApps list!
🐛 Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements
@gonucleo
believes private, multi-sig infrastructure is essential for organizations to bring the web3 vision to fruition and is using this technology to foster next-generation opportunities that benefit the entire ecosystem.
📢 Calling all devs 📢
Puzzle NEEDS you to solve
@__zkhack__
Puzzle 1 before we release our Week 3 $500 Giveaway challenge! Otherwise -- we can't Make
@AleoHQ
Gaming Awesome!
Checkout clue
#2
below!
2 days ago after ZK Hack IV kick-off session,
@kobigurk
from
@__geometrydev__
presented and unveiled our first puzzle, 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐲.
We released a first hint yesterday, but perhaps you’d like another one?
Check this out...
👇👇👇
Today we are happy to announce that Arcane Finance has become the first DEX in the
@AleoHQ
ecosystem to successfully integrate Puzzle Wallet!
We want to thank the
@lets_puzzle
team for their help and collaboration on this integration!
Try it now at
5/ Lastly - we are unbelievably proud of what we were able to do with
@aztecnetwork
on Aztec Connect
We helped build bridges between real world assets, real world businesses, on-chain assets, and on-chain businesses with our private/public fundraises with
@WAGBTC
&
@EmpireDao
Calling all zkSummit 10 attendees!
Come spend an hour with us and create your own iOS app that does client-side proving in our workshop!
For those planning on attending, please download Xcode in advance!
This time next week, on Sept 20th, the zk community will be gathering in London for the 10th zkSummit!
zk10 promises to bring the best and brightest in our ecosystem together to share the latest in zk research and engineering!
Hope you will join us -
🚀Avail Wallet is now officially on Testnet.
⚡ Be among the first to experience 100% privacy and decentralisation.
🖥️ Now available on Mac and Linux (Desktop)
Download Now ➡️
Mark your calendars folks - we got
@AleoHQ
's incentivized testnet as part of Phase 2 coming Friday!
For those not up to speed on Aleo Testnet 3 progress -
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Incentives for Aleo Testnet 3 will be activated on December 2nd at 00:00 UTC⌛
Stay tuned. We will be walking you through everything you need to know and how to start collecting Aleo credits⚡
From Web1 to Web3,
@daic_capital
explores why Aleo represents the next step.
Check out their most recent piece, covering Aleo's history, tech, and recent growth ↓
🥁 ANOTHER DRUMROLL PLEASE 🥁
We have a winner for our second
#puzzleraffle
!
Out of 6,032 total entries, only one could win – and that winner is ...
e5wd! Congratulations!
Stay tuned for our next raffle which may have more than just one prize...
4/ Network Status Indication
No more guessing what the health of the chain is at any moment -- you can now see it right at the top of the wallet.
Even though the Aleo Testnet is currently undergoing a planned stress-test, Puzzle's infrastructure is cruising along smoothly. 🤙
LFG! Putting together something amazing w
@404DAO
... stay tuned.
(also if you're a builder and wanna get into it this summer, we're recruiting! DM us for a sneak peak!)
1/ 404 DAO is excited to unveil The Inaugural Cohort of the 404 Accelerator – a crucial step in creating the flywheel we envision for web3 in Atlanta.
Say hello to Cohort 01 🧵👇
Puzzle is proud to support
@__zkhack__
and we want you to focus on their challenge kicking off today!
Puzzle will be postponing our weekly $500 Puzzle Challenges until Thursday so you can focus on zkHack IV
Stay tuned for updates!
zkHack signup here:
Today we're proud to announce the next generation of our encrypted zkRollup with the same name that started it all:
Aztec.
Aztec is the first ever hybrid zkRollup, enabling both public and private smart contract execution in one environment.
It's Ethereum, encrypted.
👇
You wouldn't go all-in at a high stakes poker table and reveal your hand.
And this year, we don't have to.
We are excited to bring privacy to
@WAGBTC
.
📢 Calling all devs 📢
Puzzle Weekly Challenges are a great way to build up skills for applying for Aleo Foundation grants!
Week 3 Challenge starts Thursday after you get time to finish the zkHack puzzle!
Join zkHack IV here:
🔔 ICYMI: On December 20th, 2023, the Aleo Foundation was launched! 🎉
This launch marked a significant moment in the evolution of the
@AleoHQ
ecosystem. The Foundation aims to nurture the
#Aleo
Network's development, with a core focus on governance 🔍
If we win this year - it'd be a clear example of a successful use of privacy tech that isn't controversial.
Without privacy? Get had by Ken Griffin.
With privacy tech? Buy the Constitution.
Puzzle Wallet (
@lets_puzzle
) is harnessing privacy on Aleo for hidden information games and for IRL rewards to wallet users from real stores. Puzzle has led work on Aleo Account Abstraction in their Wallet & SDK to make crypto that’s finally fun, rewarding, fee-less, & private.
Privacy is important in auction.
Last year, the opponent knew our max bid and stole our Constitution.
This year, we are trying to incorporate privicy-preserving fund-rasing provided by
@aztecnetwork
and
@gonucleo
:
- no one knows who bid
- no one knows the maximum bid
LFG!
ConstitutionDAO attempted to purchase a copy of the US Constitution. They educated millions on the power of web3.
It fell short partly because of 1 small problem:
Privacy.
This year,
@The_PeopleDAO
and
@juiceboxETH
are trying again in partnership with
@gonucleo
and Aztec.
👇