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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to submit yours!

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

Minascan Introduces Newsfeed. Stay in touch with the most recent and important protocol and ecosystem updates. Release notes:

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Explorer:

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#Minascan #Explorer #Mina #News

Exciting news! Pallad is now in closed beta.

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This is huge. Prove Ethereum activity in o1js (offchain, no gas), verify it on @MinaProtocol (small verification fee). And if you want, pick the verification back up on Ethereum via a message bridge such as @class_lambda is building.

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 🧵

📢Introducing the Paima ZK layer A year of work has gone into this ZK layer and we're finally sharing the vision and the demo! ・Deployable ZK to any L1 ecosystem ・Use EVM & non-EVM in the same codebase Powered by Mina, @ZekoLabs and @class_lambda

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 . 1/3

Coming soon … ⚡⚡⚡

Mina will be the same size in 1000 years (assuming the world doesnt burn). Again, that's real - not just theoretical. As usage increases in other networks, there's a natural trend towards centralization... the participants who can access the chain directly is limited by who…

Testworld Mission 2.0 Track 3 Update – End of Epoch 4 ✅ Experienced node operators are helping prepare the protocol for a major upgrade to bring easier ZK programmability and other key features to Mina mainnet 🔜 Network Performance Testing has resumed, with the overall…

o1js just got faster 🏃💨 Huge performance boost brought to you by the legends at @o1_labs !

Now imagine if they all settled to Mina for orders of magnitude less 😈

Taipei Blockchain Week is in full swing 💃 Congrats to the lucky draw winners! #TBW2023

🚨 Daily reminder: Mina is great because it embeds Web3 features in your device — **you** are a primary participant in the network.

Infra that folks rarely talk about: RPC gateways usually mean choosing between running a full node on a server or trusting a central entity. With https://t.co/IDznopmzzx, zkApps on Mina connect directly in-browser. Aka the RPC gateway is your browser with full node security! 🥊

We released Rampup7 on @minaprotocol 's Testworld 2.0 yesterday. It included a range of fixes that brought increased network stability and performance improvements! Improvements that the Mina community has already picked up on! 💪 Full release notes here:

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Probably nothing 👀 End to end private voting on Mina at zero cost to the user. @MinaProtocol #MinaGotRecursion

🎙️ Space with @o1_labs starts in 1 hour! Join DIA's Co-Founder & CTO @beeblebrax in a discussion about the future of ZK #oracles with @Phil_Kelly_NYC from O(1) Labs. 🔔 Set a reminder ↓