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if youre on Solana and haven't thought about @HeliusPrivacy, I humbly guarantee you will fall behind your competitors and your users' wants
ZK at Solana scale is a hell of a challenge, but we've done it and it will change Solana permanently
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look into the tech and implementation if you haven't yet. fully onchain, retail and enterprise ready
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NU7 is finally activating on Zcash! Zakura 1.7.0 activates it on height 3543405, which is the evening of November 5 for us Americans.
Blocks will occur three times faster in Zcash. Other changes like NSM funding and retiring the Sprout pool appear in this upgrade as well.
New Zakura Release: 1.7.0
This release activates NU7 on Mainnet in ~15 days. 🎉
Learn more:
zakura.com/announcements/zak…
Hylo closed a $1M strategic funding round led by @SolanaVentures with participation from @colosseum.
This marks Solana Ventures' 2nd and Colosseum's 3rd investment in Hylo, reflecting their continued conviction in our vision to scale leverage and yield infrastructure on Solana.
mert retweeted
NEAR HACKATHON is coming. Runs 1-14 November, $250K+ in prizes, just ship a public repo & demo by the end of the 2 weeks.
I'm judging alongside @mert @hosseeb @avichal @kain @eddylazzarin & @cyntro_py.
Cross-chain markets and confidential AI are NEAR.
NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details:
mert retweeted
Mert will also judge the upcoming NEAR Hackathon, alongside @ilblackdragon and builders and investors from a16z crypto, Electric Capital, Dragonfly, and more.
Build cross-chain markets and agentic apps on NEAR, with confidentiality as a core primitive. Submissions open November 1st to 14th.
Helius CEO @mert has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, NEAR Foundation’s governing body.
An early NEAR Intents user and leading voice on privacy, Mert brings an operator’s view to how NEAR builds and grows.
“For crypto to win, we need connected, unstoppable liquidity at planetary scale. A market of markets. Neither Solana, Zcash, or Bitcoin can win on their own, we must work together. And NEAR is how."
near.org/blog/mert-mumtaz-jo…
mert retweeted
NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details:
mert retweeted
Scaling Zcash to Visa-level throughput requires a next-generation networking stack. We're excited to share P2Pv2, which you can try out today in Zakura!
zakura.com/engineering/p2pv2…
One of Mert's favorite use cases for Zcash is private donations to Roman Storm, where he says the majority of contributions on Storm's donation website are made in $ZEC
“One of my favorite use cases that we were talking about, now that we're talking about Satoshi, is Roman Storm”
“If you look at his donations on his donation website, the majority are in Zcash”
“That's a perfect use case of private money, which is politically sensitive donations to people who are fighting against the actual criminals who are the ones banning open source code”
“That's a particularly favorite use case of mine”
w/ @mert
Not only do you get quantum unlinkability today, but it’s also the secret for scalable payments in tachyon!
This is how all “payment request” flows will work too
So it’s already in your wallets well before tachyon arrive
Preconfs are now live for all paid plans
Use preconfSubscribe to stream the earliest onchain signals and see Solana transactions before they're shredded
We also added 4 new filters: source (Helius/BAM), signer (include/exclude), signatures, and instructions
Have fun























