Announcing Private Blockspace: built for high-performance onchain markets where... confidentiality is a requirement, not a feature. Positions, balances, and execution logic can remain private, while data availability and protocol commitments are designed to remain publicly verifiable.show more

TL;DR - Privacy on public blockchains has historically been... fragmented and episodic. Umbra introduces persistent, expressive privacy by default. - Umbra is a private financial layer on Solana, enabling private transfers, swaps, balances, and yield within a continuous shielded environment. - Umbra combines client-side zero-knowledge proofs for anonymity with MPC for confidentiality - MPC enables confidential balances via Encrypted Token Accounts (ETAs), hiding balances and transfer amounts - Privacy strength depends not only on cryptography, but on anonymity set size and user behavior. - Umbra treats anonymity sets as a first-class metric and designs the product to minimize behavioral privacy failures. - A multi-purpose shielded pool allows funds to remain private across transfers, swaps, and yield, compounding privacy over time. - The Umbra SDK allows wallets and applications to integrate private transfers, swaps, and balances, feeding activity into a shared shielded pool. - Swaps execute via public liquidity venues while identity, balances, and intent remain unlinkable. - Users can earn yield on shielded assets, incentivizing longer time in the private environment. - Umbra mitigates exit-related privacy risks through product design, including anonymity indicators, configurable unshielding delays, and confidential balances. - UTXO-based shielded systems suffer from performance decay as balances fragment into many notes over time, increasing scan and aggregation costs. - Umbra eliminates this bottleneck by consolidating balances into Encrypted Token Accounts (ETAs), using UTXOs only at the anonymity boundary. The result is encrypted balances with stable, high-performance transfers even as activity scales. - Compliance is addressed through proactive screening against risk databases and opt-in selective disclosure via read-only viewing keys. - Umbra was launched via MetaDAO as an ownership coin, with governance and economic policy determined by token holders through futarchy. - Umbra is not a mixer or a single feature, but a sovereign privacy domain with its own private state and internal economy. - Umbra is Hopecore for Privacy. Thank you all for reading!show more

𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝘁 🔸 RuneMine is building... the first fully canonical indexer on the Runes Protocol. Built specifically for Runes. Not a retrofit. More than a feature; it's the infrastructure ensuring data integrity and availability on the Runes Protocol.. ▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓ᴸᴼᴬᴰᴵᴺᴳ▓▓▓▓▒▒▒▒ ▼show more

CHAINLINK SELECTED BY TYDRO FOR MAJOR ORACLE UPGRADE Tydro... (Tydro) says it is migrating from its legacy oracle provider to Chainlink (Chainlink) Data Feeds. The protocol confirmed markets remain paused during the upgrade process. User funds remain safe, liquidations are disabled, and a grace period will follow reopening. Chainlink says it is supporting the migration process.show more

The next evolution of KYC should use zero-knowledge proofs... to verify compliance without exposing names, income or addresses. Zero-knowledge proofs offer a different approach: verify the required claim without exposing the private data behind it. DNA Protocol is building toward that future with Groth16 proofs, private inputs kept off-ledger, and verifiable commitments anchored on the XRPL. Powered by $XDNA:show more

Introducing: INTERNET PRIVACY MARKETS A private social network for... builders, traders, creators, communities, and agents on Solana Encrypted by default. Built for meaningful connections. Designed to monetize communication. Own your network. Welcome toshow more

dreamDEX Spot is now open to the public. Trade... on a fully onchain order book with zero maker and taker fees, full self-custody, and transparent execution. No hidden matching engine. No offchain execution. Live USDso-denominated Spot markets: USDso / ETH USDso / WBTC USDso / SOMI USDC.e / USDso More markets are coming soon, with Perpetuals, Event Contracts, private transactions, mobile trading, and additional trading infrastructure to follow. Trade now:show more

Pyth is powering record GDP growth 🇺🇸 The network... is working with U.S. Department of Commerce to verify and distribute economic data onchain. With 100+ blockchains, 600+ apps, and a trusted model built on openness and security, Pyth is the ideal protocol for the U.S. government’s onchain push.show more

Today, we’re officially unveiling our newest and most exciting... contribution to accelerate the onchain experience on Monad: shMonad RPC. shMonad RPC is a new RPC infrastructure service for the Monad blockchain. It introduces a Stake-Weighted Bandwidth Allocation system powered by the shMonad LST protocol. It is uniquely designed to reward its users while delivering the best in latency, execution, and reliability for their onchain interactions. Let's dive in🧵show more

Kaspa Developer Completes Key Step Toward Private KAS Payments... Kaspa (Kaspa) Privacy Initiative developer Olaf Weller (Olaf Weller) says a proof of concept for shielded native $KAS has been completed on testnet TN10. The tests demonstrated transaction ordering, zero knowledge proof execution, and proof based settlement on Kaspa Layer 1. Next, developers plan to design private notes, commitments, nullifiers, and the zero knowledge proof rules for shielded payments. Weller stressed that the system has not been independently audited and is not yet a finished privacy protocol.show more

v2 is now live in Private Beta! We say... goodbye to the AMM (v1) that delivered $135bn in volume and served 10,000 traders. And say hello to the orderbook; the first stage of the v2 roadmap, built to deliver a high-throughput, low-latency, zk-verifiable exchange. Private Beta only for now, as institutional market makers ramp up and as we expand the list of tradable markets. Join the waitlist to be among the first to trade in Season 2. Being early is your edge.show more

What powers Nesa isn’t branding, it’s research. ⬟ Before... the Playground existed, before DAIs were deployed, and before the network scaled, the work started with research. The system is built on published work covering private inference, model sharding, verification mechanisms, and adaptive execution. Every component is publicly documented and designed to operate in production environments, not as theory. Explore the research behind the stack:show more

We're excited to announce that 2,000+ teams building on... IPFS through Lighthouse can now upgrade to Walrus 🚀 This upgrade enables high-performance retrieval and verifiable data availability without requiring any changes to how they build, using the same CIDs, gateways, and SDK. We're making decentralized development easier, one upgrade at a time, with nothing to migrate and nothing to rewrite, and that's a game-changer 📈 #Sui #SuiNetworkshow more

AI needs data to grow. But accessing high-quality datasets... is becoming harder than ever. · Data collection is increasingly centralized in the hands of a few large players. · Platforms are locking content behind expensive APIs and private data deals. · Specialized datasets (medical, legal, code) can cost 20–40× more than general web data. · And while 94% of companies are exploring Gen-AI, only 12% have reliable data channels. The result? A growing data bottleneck for AI development. The future of AI won’t just depend on better models. It will depend on who can access and activate quality data.show more

Introducing the Wynn Upgrade A privacy-first architecture for Hibachi,... built with Celestia underneath and Succinct A high-performance CLOB with ZK proofs, the first to publish encrypted state on Celestia Private DA if we ever rug (we won’t), you can still get your funds outshow more

Thrilled to announce the formation of RealFi Alliance: a... strategic ecosystem initiative designed to unify institutional asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders under a standardized execution framework. Inaugural partners: Infra & Assets: Centrifuge | Asseto Finance Network & Access: Chainlink | LayerZero | TopNod Yield & Market: Ember Protocol | Re7 Labs | R25 | Faroo By aligning global leaders to coordinate assets, infrastructure, and capital, RealFi is designed for operational readiness ⚓️show more

Avalanche Just Got a New Privacy Layer For Onchain... Finance COTI (COTI Foundation) has launched its Privacy-on-Demand infrastructure on Avalanche (Avalanche🔺), giving applications access to private computation. The system lets developers process sensitive information privately while keeping assets and contracts onchain. COTI’s Privacy Portal is also live on Avalanche C-Chain with private AVAX and USDC support. Users can now hold, send, and receive supported assets through the privacy-focused portal. COTI says the infrastructure can support institutional finance, private DeFi, payments, and real-world assets. The rollout gives Avalanche applications a new way to handle sensitive financial activity onchain.show more

These kids are our sons and daughters.Whatever it is... they did,they remain our children. While as I don’t support violence and destruction of state and private property,I remain a mother first before anything else and believe they have a right to be heard fairly. As such, the Sh 100,000 cash bail required for each of them from the courts is way too high for 19 to 25 yrs olds and they need our support irrespective of which part of Kenya each is from. I appeal to Kenyans of Good will to bail them out from industrial area remand .The LSK team have established a paybill for this purpose and they will be accountable. LSK KIAMBU CHAPTER ACCOUNT Paybill: 522522 A/c: 1263919804 Pls send whatever little or much you can. #KenyansforKenyans.show more

My children are hungry and I don’t know where... to turn. 💔 Where is the humanitarian flotilla that promised to bring food and aid? Was all that hope just a show? How can the world watch children suffer and remain silent? 🇵🇸show more

Some cool projects in the RWA space and what... they actually do, educational only. Solana – home to over $1.1bn of real world assets onchain with 135k+ holders, according to Figure + Hastra – Figure tokenizes private credit such as HELOC loans into onchain yield products. Hastra distributes products like PRIME, a yield exposure backed by real-estate-linked mortgage loans. Securitize – Tokenization infrastructure. Helps asset managers and institutions issue real securities (funds, equity, debt) onchain in a compliant way. Soon to be launching tokenized stocks. Kamino – Solana lending and liquidity protocol. Increasingly a distribution layer for RWA yield products alongside crypto native markets. Can also be used to loop positions and increase APYs (with added risk). Maple – Onchain institutional credit markets. Lenders earn yield from real borrowers. One of the clearest bridges between TradFi credit and Defi. Pendle – Not an RWA issuer, but important. Pendle lets you split and trade yield itself, including yield generated from real world assets. @OndoFinance – Tokenized Treasuries, tokenized stocks, and public market exposure onchain. Focused on bringing familiar financial instruments onchain. OnRe – Onchain reinsurance. Yield comes from insurance premiums, not trading or leverage. A completely different risk profile to most Defi. RWA Foundation – Education, marketing, and ecosystem building. Not a product but more about helping people understand RWAs and how this sector fits together. PreStocks – Onchain price exposure to private companies (pre-IPO style), built on Solana. MAIV – Structured real world investments onchain. Focuses on tokenized contracts and cash flow deals. Investment platform + FLOW product (CBP). These are very brief overviews with limited detail. If something interests you, do your own research, read the docs, understand the risks, and decide for yourself.show more

Shops remain closed at Pan Africa Mall in Alexandra.... Protestors are now heading to JSC in Sandton. There is a large police presence, both SAPS and Metro. There are also different private security companies and some community members that have joined the police.show more