Mark your calendars for the next Core Grants community call on July 11 🎙 Core Grants is a program designed to address critical infrastructure needs and fund public goods. With grants allocated on a rolling basis and focused on supporting high-priority development areas, community members can contribute to shaping and realizing the future of the Mina ecosystem. In this call, Mina Foundation will outline what the program is all about, how the process works, and also discuss the latest Requests For Comment (RFCs) and Requests For Proposal (RFPs) → discord.gg/minaprotocol Come learn about the program and ask questions 💜

Mina Foundation and Mirae Asset Financial Group have joined forces to integrate Mina’s zero knowledge tech with Mirae’s tokenized securities platform. Mirae Asset Financial Group is a global investment company which has an AUM worldwide of approximately $600 billion. Together with Taiga Labs, the teams will develop a Proof of Concept (PoC) which enables users to securely prove asset ownership on a public blockchain using zero knowledge proofs. This use case for ZK allows owners of tokenized securities to prove their ownership, without revealing personal information, opening up a diverse range of opportunities such as offering online benefits exclusively to proven owners of tokenized securities. Learn more →

Important Note: The Mina Protocol network will be upgraded on June 4 from 09:00 until midnight UTC, during which time the network will be down. Users who are not running a node do not need to do anything during the 15 hour process, which you can keep track of here → minaprotocol.com/mainnet-upgrade-status/ Please be aware that no transactions will be included in the chain from 09:00 UTC until the upgrade process has been finalized. Any transaction that is not included in the chain before 09:00 UTC, June 4, will be discarded. Users can resend their transactions after the upgrade when the network is back up. There may also be service interruption while your chosen exchange updates their system, so keep an eye on their channels for updates. If you have any issues, please visit #mainnet-berkeley-upgrade in Discord → discord.gg/minaprotocol/

NAVIGATORS, SEASON 1 GRAND PRIZE WINNERS 🔭 The Navigators Season 1 grand prize winners have been announced 🏆 After months of dedication and hard work, 12 finalists showcased their contributions to a panel of community electors, who chose 6 grand prize winners. List of winners → minaprotocol.com/blog/navigators-season-1-grand-prizes Congrats to the teams and a massive thank you to the electors for their thoughtful deliberations! The second season of Navigators is already live and focused on helping Mina developers accelerate their projects to production. Designed to fund the strongest devs in the ZK space, this new season will empower teams and individuals to experiment, build, and deploy on Mina mainnet 💜💪 Applications are now open, with Navigator grants allocated on a rolling basis through December 31, 2024. Learn more and apply today for a grant → minafoundation.notion.site/Mina-Navigators-Season-2-72ccd35e45304bc98dbeec88c1ca2056

📢 New Blog! Mina Protocol as the Go-to ZK Platform for Developers With Mina developers absolutely flying and Berkeley mere days away, we are so ready! Want to discover what else is cooking in the ecosystem? 🧑‍🍳 Read this blog post to find out → minaprotocol.com/blog/berkeley-upgrade-paves-the-way-for-developers (Spoiler: it might involve zkApps, Ethereum bridges, L2s, DEXs and more 👀)

BERKELEY UPGRADE: ONE WEEK COUNTDOWN ⏳ Mina’s Berkeley Upgrade is on track for June 4, 2024 Massive shoutout to the community testers, staking pool operators, exchanges, and partners whose efforts have gotten us this far 💜 You can keep track of the timeline and status of the upgrade here → minaprotocol.com/mainnet-upgrade-status As of today, 83% of active stake has upgraded to version 2.0.0 (achieving the goal) 🎉 With just one week to go, node operators who haven’t yet upgraded to the latest stable release, version 2.0.0, should do so immediately! You can find the release notes on Github → github.com/MinaProtocol/mina/releases/tag/2.0.0 Thank you once again for your ongoing support on the road to Berkeley! ⭐️

Mark you calendars for upcoming community calls this week! 🎙 Mina Protocol Governance Q&A — May 29 at 2pm UTC Join Mina Protocol co-founder Evan Shapiro and the Mina Foundation governance team in Discord tomorrow to talk about a vision for Mina Protocol governance. The team will be hosting a Q&A related to the latest blog post which you can read here → minaprotocol.com/blog/next-steps-mina-protocol-governance 🔔 RSVP → discord.gg/minaprotocol?event=1244638280578760704 Core Grants Community Call — May 30 at 2pm UTC Mina Foundation team members will outline what the Core Grants program is all about, how the process works, and discuss the latest Requests For Comment (RFCs) and Requests For Proposal (RFPs). There will also be time at the end for open discussion and questions. 🔔 RSVP → discord.gg/5jdPhM3D?event=1244962208580898836 See you there 👋

Mina Navigators Updates 🔭 Mina Navigators is back for a second season, and there are some important changes this time around. The first season of Navigators focused on giving developers a pathway to get started building on Mina Protocol. Through hackathons and learn-to-earn challenges, Navigators expanded their understanding of zero knowledge tech and zkApps. 12 finalists had a chance to showcase their contributions this week, and grand prize winners will be announced next week! 🏆 The second season of Navigators is all about helping Mina developers to accelerate their projects to production. Designed to fund the strongest devs in the ZK space, this new season will empower dedicated teams and individuals to experiment, build, and deploy on Mina mainnet 💜💪 Applications are now open, with Navigator grants allocated on a rolling basis through December 31, 2024. Learn more and apply today for a grant → minafoundation.notion.site/Mina-Navigators-Season-2-72ccd35e45304bc98dbeec88c1ca2056

Here’s the latest on Testworld Mission 2.0 and the progress towards Mina’s major mainnet upgrade! Last week, the teams at o1Labs and Mina Foundation, along with contributors from across the ecosystem, successfully upgraded Mina’s Devnet, an environment for developers to test and experiment 🥳 Mark your calendars for the next Road to Upgrade community call on April 17 🎙 This is a monthly Discord event where technical updates are shared on the work towards the Berkeley mainnet upgrade → discord.gg/minaprotocol Come learn about the progress and ask questions 💜

Introducing Recursive zkRollups + Hazook 🗞 🗣 You can leverage recursive zkRollups to batch thousands of transactions from an L2 into a single proof that can be posted to Mina’s L1. Recursive zkRollups are a scalable and adaptable zero knowledge proof accumulator tool to efficiently process transactions and optimize blockspace utilization for zkApps. Learn more → minaprotocol.com/blog/recursive-zkrollups-hazook Hazook is one of the first implementations of a recursive zkRollup for Mina that parallelizes state proof accumulation. It is open-source and built to easily integrate with o1js zkApps and zkRollups! Try out Hazook → github.com/ycryptx/Hazook-Fast-Zk-Rollup

Here is the latest news about the road to Mina's major mainnet upgrade 👇 Final preparations for Mina’s Devnet upgrade, set to take place on April 9th, are underway 🥳 This final milestone before the mainnet upgrade will provide the ecosystem with one last opportunity to test the Berkeley features and upgrade process. The team at o1Labs released node version 1.5.0, the build which incorporates the Devnet stop-slots, signaling the commencement of Devnet node upgrades 👏 Release Info → discord.com/channels/484437221055922177/583400552487059546/1225217305731010620 Finally, if you’d like to learn more about what to expect on the day of upgrade, both in the Devnet environment and later on Mina Protocol’s mainnet, check out the latest blog post → minaprotocol.com/blog/minas-berkeley-upgrade-what-to-expect Thanks again to everyone who has contributed so far! 🙏

Devnet Upgrade: What to Expect 👀 Participants from across the ecosystem will work together to upgrade Mina’s Devnet next week, the final test before the Berkeley mainnet upgrade! Here’s what you can expect throughout the process, both in the Devnet environment and later on Mina Protocol’s mainnet 👇 Blog → minaprotocol.com/blog/minas-berkeley-upgrade-what-to-expect

Here is the latest update on Testworld Mission 2.0 progress and the road to Mina's major mainnet upgrade 👇 Preparations for Mina’s Devnet upgrade continue, with the engineering teams at Mina Foundation and o1Labs working on improvements to archive node migration process, tools and documentation, thanks to community feedback! Upgrade Mechanism Testing (UMT), which replicated the process and engineered the upgrade mechanism in the testnet environment concluded earlier this month ✅ You can read about the highlights, what was achieved, and findings in this retro → minaprotocol.com/blog/upgrade-mechanism-testing-retrospective Finally, in case you missed it, users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest stable release from o1Labs, 1.4.1, before the upgrade commences! → github.com/MinaProtocol/mina/releases/tag/1.4.1 Thanks again to everyone who has contributed so far! 🙏

Here is the latest update on Testworld Mission 2.0 progress and the road to Mina's major mainnet upgrade 👇 Participants from across the ecosystem continue to work together to prepare for Mina’s Devnet upgrade, the final milestone before the mainnet upgrade! In case you missed the Road to Upgrade call earlier this week: 👉 There is a new hardware requirement for ​​block producers and SNARK workers, who will require 32 GB of RAM post-upgrade. 👉 Simplified Node Status will be part of the upgrade tooling and enabled by default in the pre-upgrade release. This simplified version will report non-sensitive data and allow for a safe upgrade. Finally, the team at o1Labs have today announced the stable release of 1.4.1. This release contains all of the fixes and improvements prior to the Berkeley Upgrade, and users are strongly recommended to upgrade to this latest version before the upgrade commences. → github.com/MinaProtocol/mina/releases/tag/1.4.1 Thanks again to everyone who has contributed so far!

COHORT 3 FUNDED PROPOSALS ⚡️ A third cohort of builders have been funded through zkIgnite! Electors assessed 100+ proposals and allocated grants to 29 projects building zkApps, developer tools, and crucial infrastructure for the Mina ecosystem. Full list of grantees ↓ minaprotocol.com/blog/zkignite-cohort-3-funded-projects Congrats to the teams and a massive thank you to everyone involved (proposers, electors, technical reviewers, and community members who gave feedback) 🫶 Grantees will now build out their ideas over 3 months, working to deliver technical milestones outlined in their proposals. Stay tuned for updates on their progress!

Here is the latest update on Testworld Mission 2.0 progress and the road to Mina's major mainnet upgrade 👇 After a successful upgrade of the testnet, Upgrade Mechanism Testing (UMT) has now concluded. Up next, the teams at o1Labs and Mina Foundation will collaborate with participants from across the ecosystem to upgrade Mina’s Devnet, the final step before the mainnet upgrade! Mark your calendars for the next Road to Upgrade community call on March 13 🎙 This is a monthly Discord event where technical updates are shared on the work towards the Berkeley mainnet upgrade → discord.gg/minaprotocol Come learn about the progress 💜

Testworld Mission 2.0 Track 3 Retro + Next Steps Track 3 of Testworld Mission 2.0, which focused on network performance testing, concluded last week ✅ Read about the highlights, what was achieved, and findings in this retro ↓ minaprotocol.com/blog/testworld-mission-2-0-track-3-retrospective Testing the upgrade mechanism (Track 4), the final step before the major mainnet upgrade, will begin shortly. Huge shoutout to all of our community testers for their contributions so far, as well as the engineering teams at o1Labs 🥳 A new era of programmable ZK is coming 🔜

In other exciting news, 💯 % of zkIgnite Cohort 2 builders delivered their final milestones! They will be presenting their work over the past few months to the community today and tomorrow. 🔗 Links to watch in Discord →

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Cohort 3 draft proposals are due on January 31 (just two weeks away) ⚡️ Register on

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Pickles, Mina’s inductive zk-SNARK composition system, has concluded a security audit by @LeastAuthority See the report here ↓

Progress towards Mina’s major mainnet upgrade continues with the Network Performance Testing track scheduled to wrap up on January 22. This week, @o1_labs delivered a new release candidate (2.0.0rampup8), which includes performance improvement for the archive node and other…

Here are 3 grant programs empowering developers to learn ZK and build their ideas on @MinaProtocol 💡 + Navigators + zkIgnite + Core Grants

Happy to share that Berkeley Testnet Release 2.0.0rampup8 (ITN RC4) has been released. Delivering bug fixes and performance improvements, we continue our journey through @MinaProtocol 's Testworld Mission 2.0. As always, get involved, test, and share your feedback! 🛠️ 👉🏻Details…

Our team has one of the most ambitious composability roadmaps in the blockchain space 👍 And we've been bringing it to life step-by-step building every day ↓

First look at private voting for DAO proposals with ZkSnap 🗳️ Verified on @MinaProtocol

Replaying transactions to make sure they were done correctly is inefficient! Just verify, it's cool 😁

1/ 1⃣ Product Updates One of the standout achievements in 2023 for #OrochiNetwork was the selection of our #zkDatabase project for the zkIgnite Cohort 1 program hosted by @MinaProtocol We successfully released the zkDatabase Alpha Version 0.1.1 to the public 🎉 The response…

Other blockchains typically run computations on-chain and use a variable gas-fee model – this can get expensive! 💰 Mina zkApps can execute unlimited off-chain computations and settle one proof of correct execution to the chain. All for a low, flat fee 💪

A Mina core grant proposal from the legend himself @evanashapiro :

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'a private proof-of-passport attestation (zkPassport) leveraging smartphone NFC, ZKPs, and Mina, a private identity primitive for Mina & connected chains, ... ultimately web2 applications'

Mina is the FIRST succinct blockchain! How is that feasible? Mina is using recursive zero knowledge technology. The future is @MinaProtocol .

Don’t miss @proto_kit ’s Office Hours tomorrow! Great opportunity to learn how to get started building with ZK on @MinaProtocol 🏗️

✨ We had the pleasure of speaking about zkLocus & our zkIgnite cohort experience on a space with @MinaProtocol 🟣 Our talk wasn’t planned, and we are very thankful for the opportunity 🔊 Tune-in and listen! ✨

Zeko is coming to Mina in 2024. Why? Easy...

Friday! zkIgnite discussion + AMA about builder programs. come listen if you're mina curious!

Submit proposal → crowd voting → get a grant for your ZK application or business Devs, it’s time to build ⚡️

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.

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Mina's journey from a crazy idea to a breakthrough L1 blockchain is going to hit a milestone in 2024 with the upcoming Berkeley upgrade! o1Labs CEO, @etekis , dives into this exciting development in our new blog post. So what’s all the buzz about? 🧵

Big year ahead. Let’s get to work 💪

What proof of everything means to me: When interacting with a web app, attest to any piece of data by syncing to a chain that is easily accessible and immutable. HTTPS but the S is supplemented with a zk proof, enabling a new form of trust on the internet.

Mina ecosystem with mainnet upgrade, ETH bridges, L2s, and commercial zkApps in 2024

Last month, zero knowledge friends met up in the historic Şerefiye Cistern for an evening of discussion, music, and visual wonders ✨ Thank you to our incredible Turkish community for showing up and helping make zkConnect Istanbul such a huge success! Teşekkürler 🇹🇷

✅ 190K on-chain accounts — Our chain may stay the same size, but our numbers don’t Decentralization + Scalability = Mina

Proof of … ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ⭐️ *ID* **Data** ***Funds*** ****Voting**** ******Staking****** *******Gaming******* *************************** 🟫

we’re so back 😎 … and so is zkIgnite ⚡️

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 ↓

zkIgnite COHORT 3 2M MINA budget!!!!! Proposals due Jan 31, 2024 Mina's mainnet upgrade is COMING SOON. If you've been waiting on the sidelines OR you're choosing where to build your zk project... get involved.

As promised

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is now live. Lots of updates coming , please take a look, give feedback and try to break it!

(1/4) We're excited and truly honored to be announced as the winners of the Mina track at the #TBW2023 Hackathon. This marks the beginning of the journey, as we are ready to navigate the world of the @MinaProtocol . 📸 Photo Sensei:

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Doro!! Monster Card! Fair lottery system alert! Our @MinaProtocol project won 2nd🥈 at #TBW2023. Amazing collab with @EricLi53015018 , @Piano_Chicken & the strong Mina team support !!! Project:

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Keep an eye out for these upcoming ZK projects. Congratulations to the top 3 winners for @MinaProtocol ’s hackathon track and a grand prize pool of $5000 📸 1. Photo Sensei 🎫 2. Doro ⛽️ 3. Gasolina @MinaFoundation