It’s been a busy year for Mina Protocol and the team have just released their updated roadmap for Q4 ’22. You can read the full article here, but here is a concise breakdown of the main points.
ZKAPPS
Events: New Mina zkApps from zkIgnite Builders Program
The zkIgnite Cohort 0 event has been a great source of new zkApps for Mina Protocol and below you will see some (more to come) of the awesome work done by the developers who participated.
Events: Regina Wong to talk at ETHMalaysia
Regina is Wong will be giving an introduction talk entitled ‘Smart Contracts with Zero-Knowledge Proofs’, covering Mina Protocol / snarkyJS and zkApps this Thursday (dec 15th) as part of ETHMalaysia in Kuala Lumpur.
New zkApps: InterPlanetary Compute System, Kleio & MeDATA
Here are three new ZkApps built at the recent ETHIndia event.
O(1) Labs – ZK Hack THU Dec 8th 16:40 UTC
ZK Hack is a virtual event series featuring weekly workshops and advanced puzzle solving competitions. Each week, participants will be able to learn about key ZK concepts and tools and/or compete to find bugs in protocols in our puzzle competition and win prizes.
zkIgnite – $250K MINA prize pool: Build, Test & Deploy zkApps on Mina Protocol (testnet)
There’s still time to join the new zkIgnite, Cohort O, but don’t hang around, stage one (or actually stage 0) ends in two weeks on December the 15th. Entrants can complete tutorials based around snarkyJS and potentially win rewards from a $250k MINA prize pool. Last week the code was downloaded over several thousand times […]
zkApps: 2000+ SnarkyJS downloads this week
Developers are starting to get a taste for zkApps and now that there’s the potential to build them on Berkeley testnet the increase in downloads of snarkyJS, (the typescript library created by O(1) labs needed to build them) has been noticeable.
New Medium article by Phil Kelly from O(1) Labs
The recent FTX situation has thrown a whole range of discussion points on the table in so far as decentralisation, safe CEXes (see the twitter space here) and the problem of trust in crypto generally. Phil Kelly, COO of O(1) Labs has written an excellent Medium article entitiled ‘Composable Identity with ZK: Avoiding Web3 data […]
Video: The Magic of Zero Knowledge with Brandon Kase from O(1) Labs
Brandon Kase and Evan Shapiro came together for a special livestream to officially launch zkSpark, a new incentivised testnet for Mina Protocol.
O(1) Labs Twitter Space – Wed 23 Nov 11am PT(16:00 UTC)
In the next Twitter space, Phil continues the conversation with O(1) Labs team member and Mina Protocol Architect Engineer, Brandon Kase and among the topics up for discussion are ‘Safer CEXes’.