MIP#1 : Mina Protocol on-chain voting commences
As we enter a new year we’re also entering an exciting period for Mina Protocol and the Mina Foundation and its ecosystem partners, including O(1) Labs, are committed to decentralized governance through on-chain voting
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Community Grants update Q3 22
The Community Grants for Q3 22 have been announced by the Mina Foundation. These are retrospective awards given out to members of the technical and non-technical Mina Protocol Community for work done to either create a tool or service or to assist in the development of the project generally.
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Staketab release new Mina Explorer update
Staketab are one of the biggest staking providers in the Mina Protocol Ecosystem, they have also built an excellent Mina explorer (Minascan) and with zkApps currently being deployed on the Berkelely testnet they have just released a brand new updated version.
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Mina Ecosystem Roadmap – Q4 2022
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.
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Videos: O(1) Labs Twitter Spaces now available on Youtube
Over the last few weeks, Mina Protocol incubators O(1) Labs have been using Twitter Spaces to have discussions around Zero-Knowledge, zkApps and the potential of snarkyJS to be used in real world scenarios.
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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.
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Article: Mina Protocol Stablecoin Proposal
Stablecoins haven’t received the best possible publicity in recent times, but a compliant, privacy preserving fiat coin via zero-knowledge proofs is seen in many circles as something of a holy grail for cryptocurrencies and a recent article written by Dr. Jonas Gross, Johannes Sedlmeir, Simon Seiter on the etonec website makes an interesting proposal on […]
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Ledger Nano App now available for Mina Protocol
Many people have been using their Ledger device in ‘developer mode’ for some time to safely store their Mina coins in ‘cold storage’, however Ledger have just announced that the Nano X and Nano S Devices are now fully compatible with Mina Protocol after a full audited by Least Authority.
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New Blog Post: Solving for Blockchain’s Critical Security Flaw
There are more than things about Mina Protocol that make it quite unique in the current BlockChain space…
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Video: Community Call – MIP #001 to remove Supercharged rewards at the Hard Fork
Here is a recording of the Community call on Monday 12th December 2022 regarding the first ever MIP (Mina Improvement Process) proposed by Gareth Davies to remove Supercharged rewards from Mina Protocol at the next hard fork.
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CSO of O(1) Labs, Izzak Mekler to transition to new role as advisor and board member
To commemorate Izzak’s amazing last five years, he will be a guest at a special ‘Light Chat’ hosted by Mina Foundation CEO, Evan Shapiro together with Emre (CEO of O(1) Labs) today (Tue 12th Decemeber at 12:30 PST/3:30 EST (20:30 UTC).
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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.
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New zkApps: InterPlanetary Compute System, Kleio & MeDATA
Here are three new ZkApps built at the recent ETHIndia event.
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Tech: On-chain voting for Mina Improvement Proposals (MIPs)
There has been so much activity happening in the world of Mina Protocol over the last few weeks. zkApps are on testnet and there is hive of activity from developers participating in zkIgnite and completing the zkApp tutorials to earn $MINA for their work.
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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.
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Epcoh 41, MINA’s numbers by Everstake
Everstake are a trusted Mina Validator and their team regularly produce excellent Mina Protocol related content on social media. In addition to their own statistics regarding their validator service after each Epoch they put together a compilation of information
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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 […]
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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.
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Events: Mina zkApp Developers Meetup – Bangalore (Thu Dec 1st)
There have been 14 Mina Protocol Developers meets-ups so far this year and the last one of 2022 will take place in Bangalore, India just before the start of ETHIndia, where incidentally Mina Protocol is also one of the sponsors of the event.
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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 […]
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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.
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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’.
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zkApps: Cohort 0 – Tue Nov 22nd + Live virtual event
Here’s another exciting development on the road to zkApps being live on the Mina Protocol mainnet.
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Medium: O(1) Labs – Midpoint Update on the zkApps Builders Program
O(1) Labs, the incubators behind Mina Protocol have just published a new medium article regarding the zkApps Builders Program, an 11-week program bringing talented developers from around the world together to learn about zero-knowledge programming, and build zero-knowledge smart contracts (“zkApps”)
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Security: Mina Phishing Scams alert
It seems every few months a similar phishing scam is targeted toward Mina Wallet Holders and this week another attempt was made. In all of the attacks the method is the same.
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ZK Hack Event with O(1) Labs: Thu 22nd Nov
Mina incubators O(1) Labs are one of the sponsors of the upcoming ZKHack, a regular virtual event series featuring weekly workshops and advanced puzzle solving competitions. The next event will feature workshops on Tuesday and Thursdays and will run from November 22nd till December 13th.
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Video: Light Chat – PAGEAPP – Proof of Age zkApp
The Community Builders Program is becoming a great source of new ideas and more and more the program is offering a glimpse at some of the amazing potential real world use cases for zkApps (smart contracts running on Mina Protocol – currently on testnet).
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Events: O(1) Labs Twitter Space – Monday 14Nov 17:00 UTC
Entitled Real World ZK with O(1) Labs, a new Twitter space debuts on Monday with experts from the #ZK World discussing particular real-life use cases for zero knowledge, Mina Protocol and snarkyJS.
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New Twitter Account for Mina Devs @MinaDevelopers
With all that has been going on this week in the world of BlockChains it might have been easy to miss this announcement from the Mina Foundation, but the new social media account @MinaDevelopers on Twitter is another sign of the quickening progress towards zkApps on Mainnet.
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MinaScan: Blockchain explorer for Berkeley Testnet by Staketab
Staketab have now launched MinaScan, a blockchain explorer for Berkeley Testnet with information on the growing number of zkApps being deployed. You can find full details of the release HERE, you can also click on the link in the tweet below.
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Events: Wed Nov 16, Mina Community Meetup – New York
As Mina Protocol continues to grow, more community events are beginning to pop up all over the place and this new meetup in New York on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
at the Blockchain Center, is being hosted by J Washburn, someone who has been involved with the project from a very early stage.
Events: Mina Protocol Engineer, Jason Steinhauser to talk at CrossChain Summit 11th November
Mina Protocol Engineering manager, Jason Steinhauser will be one of the special guests appearing at CrossChain Summit, a virtual event held by Dystopia Labs on November 11th.
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Events: New Mina zkApps from EthSanFrancisco
The teams from both O(1) Labs and the Mina Foundation have been at EthSanFrancisco over the last few days and it was a fantastic opportunity for them to meet developers eager to learn more about zkApps, snarkyJS and Mina Protocol, the worlds lightest Blockchain.
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Yeni Türkçe Discord Kanalı (Türkçe olarak) 🇹🇷
This news has been written by Gerçek Kriptocu for the Turkish Mina Community regarding a new Community Discord Channel for Mina Protocol
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NEWS: Mina Wallet, Staking Power to be discontinued (TBC)
Mina holders trying to access their Staking Power wallet may have had some issues today (Sunday 6th November), this is due to a change in the developers service arrangement with Figment, please see below for a direct quote from the Staking Power Telegram channel.
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Light Chat – Evan Shapiro November 10th – PageApp / zkApp
This Thursday, November 10th, Mina Foundation CEO, Evan Shapiro will be hosting a light chat event (Time & Date TBC) where he will be talking to bugrahantemur the developer responsible for PageApp, an exciting development in zkApps. The App allows you to prove you are over 18 without having to reveal personal details about yourself.
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Mina Protocol Ecosystem Update (October 2022)
October has been a busy month for the teams at Mina Foundation and their ecosystem partners, here is a nice thread put together by the team to recap over the last 31 days.
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Events: Starknet.cc – Lisbon Oct 31 featuring Florian Kluge from O(1) Labs & Old Friends Reunion 1st Nov
While neither Mina Foundation or O(1) Labs have an official presence at ETHLisbon (they will be attending EthSanFransisco + EthIndia) Florian Kluge AKA Trivo from O(1) Labs will be attending a number of events and discussions
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zkApp: Anonymous Message Board Tutorial
While we are still a short distance from their appearance on Mina Protocol Mainnet, zkApps ARE currently fully deployable on the Berkeley Testnet Alpha.
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Workshop: How to Code zkApps with Mina Protocol featuring Evan Shapiro (Tuesday Oct 25th)
Evan Shapiro, Mina Foundation CEO is hosting a zkApps workshop on Tuesday Oct 25th @4:30 PM – 5:20 PM (PDT) (23:30 UTC).
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The Q3 2022 Mina Foundation Transparency Report
Each quarter the team produces a transparency report detailing key metrics within the Mina Protocol Ecosystem. The report includes information on everything from treasury expenditure, to the number of Mina Wallets and nodes.
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ZK Tech You Should Know — Part 1: SNARKs & STARKs
The technology behind Mina Protocol can be daunting to understand at first, but you don’t have to be a full stack developer to understand the basic concepts and this video created by Mina Foundation does a fantastic job of explaining zk-SNARKs & zk-STARKs.
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ZkApp ‘Hello World’ Tutorial by Evan Shapiro
In this tutorial, we will discuss private inputs and hash functions. With a zkApp, a user’s local device generates one or more zero knowledge proofs, which are then verified by the Mina network. – Evan Shaprio
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How to delegate $MINA in Staking Power Wallet
Everstake, one of the biggest Node operators and validators for Mina Protocol have put together this helpful video guide on ‘How to stake Mina using the Staking Power Wallet’.
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ZkApp ‘Hello World’ Tutorial by Evan Shapiro
zkApps are smart contracts built on Mina Protocol. Currently they are not live on mainnet, but it IS now possible to play around with the code and produce a zkApp and deploy it to the Berkelely Testnet Alpha.
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Events: Mina Protocol – Main sponsor for ETHIndia
As the year slowly comes to an end, there are still more than a few places where you can get a chance to meet the teams from O(1) Labs and Mina Foundation, including ETHIndia where it has just been announced that Mina Protocol are one of the main sponsors.
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Q2 2022 Mina Protocol Community Grants Announced
There are so many people working on different projects in the Mina Protocol Ecosystem that it’s sometimes quite difficult to keep track of them all.
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Events: Future of ZK Proving Systems @Devcon with Brandon Case – Thu Oct 13th, 2022
The place to be for all web3 developers and blockchain programmers right now is Devcon in Bogotá, Columbia. Hot on the heels of EthBogatá, Devcon is overflowing with fantastic events and one in particular coming up tomorrow (Thu Oct 13, 10:00 – 12:55 local time – 5 hours behind (UTC)) is especially interesting to the Mina Protocol tech Community.
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ETHBOGOTÁ: 3 New WIP zkApps for Mina Protocol (testnet)
Here are links to the prize winning WIP Mina Protocol zkApps created by teams at the 2022, EthBogatá.
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Video: Can You Do Real Business With Anons? Privacy and Identity in Web3 feat’ Mina Protocol CEO, Evan Shaprio
A huge part of Mina Protocol’s unique strengths is its potential to add privacy functionality to blockchains. Here Mina Foundation CEO, Evan Shapiro joins a panel of guests in a discussion hosted by Messari Mainnet 2022, entitled ‘Can You Do Real Business With Anons? Privacy and Identity in Web3’.
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New graphic to explain Mina Staking Process by Auro Wallet
A quick ‘Google’ will give you plenty of different results on staking Mina, we also have a page on Staking With Mina HERE, however I saw this excellent graphic posted by the creators of Auro Wallet and thought it could be helpful to Mina newbies.
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Submit Mina Github Repos to Electric Capital’s Annual Report
The annual Electric Capital report tracks developer activity and growth across all Web3 ecosystems and now the team are putting together this years data.
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