Just won 420 UM from the Penumbra 🌘 Liquidity Tournament Delegated UM. Voted. Earned. All without giving up privacy.

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freeromanstorm.com Thank you everyone who is helping me. Ill never give up. I know that I am right and they are wrong.

First 3 lessons just dropped! From us, with 💛 Start learning👉ingonyama.com/foundations-of… Big thanks to all beta testers!

1) On my M4, running the Ligetron speed test in Chrome, I get ~10K Poseidon hash calls and ~250 EdDSA verifications per second. Try it here: platform.ligetron.com/speedtest This translates to proving a transaction block in under a minute on an M4 browser if Ethereum used EdDSA and

We just raised a $5.5M seed round to build the network for Private Shared State. It’s the thing we’ve been working towards for years, and now we finally get to realise it. Here’s why we’re building it

Public chains are anonymous→Wrong Blockchain privacy = criminality→Wrong Privacy or compliance, can’t have both→Wrong On point from our friends at a16z. At Miden this is the design space we build for: practical privacy as the path to scale.

The year is 2032. In his native mid-size country along the equator, Arjun is walking home from the textile workshop where he’s worked for the past five years as an entropy creator. It’s Friday, which means wages land today. On the way back, he opens the Qash app on his phone.

Sad to see. I was just recommending the Penumbra people and tech to some fellow builders at a crypto meetup earlier tonight. I’ll bet there is a lot of good source code to be mined from that GitHub! penumbralabs.xyz

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privileged to have worked on Penumbra 🌘 straight out of university, and grateful to everyone who supported along the way. ps. the website is still serving if you'd like to explore what we've built together over the years penumbra.zone

I’m hiring backend / protocol engineers to build a new product in the Penumbra codebase DMs are open if you understand these systems like this / namada

Alright folks. The updated results are out. There is a new kid on the ZK block, aka Ligero Inc.!!!! Thanks Oleksandr Kurbatov 🇺🇦 for sharing the browser and native numbers separately. Apples-to-apples, Ligero (with no conjectures and full ZK) beats STWO on proving time, memory footprint,

Really excited that my first hire Margulus (formerly Penumbra) started his first day today!

Sean Bowe is about to give a talk at Token 2049 Singapore. He’s titled it “Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale” 👀

Sean Bowe’s talk summarized: - Most projects: Usable → Scale → Privacy (too late!) - Zcash flips it: Privacy first → Usability → Scale - Privacy isn’t an add-on. It must be built in from the start. Breakthroughs: - zk-SNARKs from Sprout → Sapling → Orchard (mobile

Just built out Penumbra <-> EVM Interchain accounts 👀 First successful EVM execution (with funds) via Penumbra only account interaction ✅

Refuting Zcash FUD (thread):