🐍 January 15.

Ethereum ⇆ Mina Token Bridge The first version will support bridging wrapped ETH Community testing next week 👀

Careful Alice! @MinaProtocol's rabbit hole leads straight to a Wonderland of web3! @LuminaDEX and @realDinoDex are coming soon. @minanft_io already works, and we’ll see more creative features added to it soon. Huge shoutout to @dfst_io for their development efforts on @minanft_io and @zkCloudWorker! We’re probably going to see more than 3 token launchpads on the Mina network soon. I don’t know which one will be the most successful, but our community will probably decide when they start battling in the Mina meme token arena. ⚔️ @zkCloudWorker and @aurowallet_com support fungible tokens, and I’m sure @pallad_ will add this support quickly. 😉 @pallad_ allows you to store your private credentials in your wallet. There are already 3 serious NFT collections in the works, along with many individual ones preparing to launch. I don’t want to overwhelm you with technical apps but as everyone knows, deep technical developments provide real value to the industry. We already have lots of zk-based projects like the NFC-based zkPassport from @piconbello team, zkTLS with @zkon_network, and @ZkNoid's gaming SDK and game marketplace (there are already some games like @TileVilleSocial, using their infrastructure). And of course, there’s @proto_kit... They’ll bring many updates to the Mina network, and we’re going to see a lot of appchains with fast transactions.⚡️ We’re also going to have the Mina > ETH bridge after @alignedlayer’s mainnet launch. Basically, we’re adding Aligned Layer’s power to our ecosystem. Huge thanks to @class_lambda for making this implementation possible! 🫡 Plus, we have many other ongoing 100% trustless bridge developments, like ETH to Mina state bridge and Bitcoin to Mina bridge from the hands of @dwillems42, @d0x471b, and @zk_kirol. DEXs, launchpads, NFTs, games, and bridges... All of these integrating with Mina's unique core technology powered by extraordinary infrastructures like browser nodes that can run even on a fridge or a smartwatch and client-side computation where users compute their own transactions enabling the network to scale to millions of users while remaining fully trustless. 💪

Introducing o1js v2.0: a major upgrade for zkApp developers! 🔒 Enhanced security, ⚡ new cryptographic tools, and 🌟 improved flexibility for building on Mina Protocol. Dive into the details and upgrade your zkApps today: o1labs.org/blog/introducing-…

Auro wallet now supports custom tokens! ✨ See balances, send/receive tokens, and track transaction history, so you can manage your digital assets all in one place. Details ↓ minaprotocol.com/blog/custom…

Have you tried playing the first provably fair #Lottery on @MinaProtocol? 🎟️ @ZkNoids’s Lottery ensures fairness with #zkProofs, making every ticket purchase and winning number generation #provable and trustworthy! 👉 app.zknoid.io/games/lottery/… Join the excitement! Buy your tickets, pick 6 numbers, and see if you’re a winner! 💰 ✨Are you ready to WIN?

2025 will be the year of ZK

2/ @ZkNoid : L1 lottery - zkNoid team is building lottery on @MinaProtocol L1; It will integrate with @zkon_network for VRF for fair selection. This will be a great ecosystem collaboration showcase. 👏👏👏forums.minaprotocol.com/t/zk…

Major ecosystem momentum 🔥 Ready to beta test six Mina zkApps and infrastructure projects? @LuminaDEX @ZkNoid @zkon_network @proto_kit Rust-based Mina node o1js-blobstream (@CelestiaOrg DA)

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Mina Protocol? 22 kB, lightweight blockchain? zkApps? They all sound so familiar, right? Since November 2024, I’ve been streaming live zkApp development content on X and YouTube. We’ve learnt a lot during the process and made use of Mina’s zkApps extensively, and discovered how zk-proofs can be utilized. The streams have been amazing and beneficial, but this month, April 2025, marks a significant milestone for Mina Protocol (yes, this is why I did not code zkApps live this month)! What has happened? @MinaFoundation returned its role as the technical development leader of @MinaProtocol to @o1_labs. In the announcement Mina Foundation and o1Labs made, they stated, “The Mina Foundation transferred all technical roadmap and protocol engineering responsibilities to O(1) Labs following community feedback and internal evaluations.” From now on, Mina Foundation will only take care of the decentralized treasury and governance systems, and o1Labs has taken the lead for protocol development and engineering of the ZK infrastructure of Mina Protocol. As a recent statement from o1Labs regarding the technical roadmap of Mina Protocol, they have stated that o1Labs has a hard fork plan set for Fall 2025. We’ll mainly talk about the components in the hard fork plans. You can access the detailed hard fork plan here (forums.minaprotocol.com/t/fa…). There are many things planned out for Mina Protocol which will benefit the Mina ecosystem immensely which are stated in the hard for plan above. However, in this article, I would like to talk in-detail about only some of them which particularly benefit the zkApps. Let’s dive in, and get Minapilled! 1) Reduced Slot Time: As a priority improvement for the Fall 2025 Hard Fork, the slot time for the Mina Protocol network will decrease from 180 seconds to 90 seconds. This change is quite important in order to enhance the user experience of the zkApps. For example, if you, as a user, interact with a zkApp, you will have to wait for 3 minutes (180 seconds) for your transaction to be confirmed; it is a lot, right? After the upgrade planned for Fall 2025, this wait time will decrease to 90 seconds which will improve the user experience of the zkApps significantly. Also, as you know, if you have ever deposited MINA token on your exchange address, you must have waited for more than an hour for your deposit confirmation. Why is this? In order to reach finality of your transactions, some amount of slots must be completed, and of course, the slot time affects the time taken for the deposit confirmation, improving the UX from another perspective. 2) Enhanced zkApp Application State As a potential additional improvement, o1Labs states that it could improve the zkApp application state. Currently, each zkApp can store up to 256 bytes (8 slots where each slot stores up to 32 bytes). o1Labs will improve this number to 32 slots which sums up as a total of 1024 bytes of storage. This would be a really significant improvement for the Mina Protocol network because most applications should store more than 256 bytes which is essential for the applications to run. For example, in our “Building on Mina” streaming series, we have been building an Account Abstraction (AA) project on Mina, effectively making use of the zkApps and hardware enclave of our devices. Currently, in the project, we are using all the 8 slots of storage in our zkApp to store the public key of our hardware enclave signer. However, for more advanced AA projects, we need more storage slots. For example, we could set some public keys to recover our account in case of losing access to our hardware signer, and we definitely need more storage to operate our AA project in the most decentralized, trustless way! That is why I am very excited about this upgrade. 3) Expanded Event and Action Limits In the Berkeley upgrade, there was a limit of 16 field elements for actions and events in account updates. This limit restricts how many events could be emitted or how many updates are done with the zkApp (actions). Why are events and actions important? Let’s say you connect to a decentralized exchange (DEX) app, and you would like to swap tokens. As soon as you press the swap button, and confirm the transaction in your wallet, the loading button at the top right of the screen says that your transaction is being processed, but how does the website know if the swap is successful and our transaction is confirmed? Events help us here! Once the swap transaction is included in a block, the swap function emits an event that the swap is done, and the website listens to the event, and once it is emitted, we know that our swap is done! Also, actions represent the changes made in the zkApp state. Combining the knowledge we just talked about, bringing in complex applications like DeFi apps to be settled on Mina Protocol becomes difficult due to the limit of 16 field elements. Increasing this limit to higher numbers will allow more zkApps to be developed on Mina Protocol and make our ecosystem richer!!! 4) Decentralized Treasury & Onchain Governance As stated in the beginning of the article, Mina Foundation will be leading the transition to the decentralized treasury and onchain governance system. With this new system, the token owners will be able to vote for new budget proposals and participate in the grant distributions for the Mina ecosystem projects. It is predicted that the first version of the decentralized treasury system will go live before the end of the year. The new treasury and governance system is quite important for the Mina ecosystem because making the community involved with the governance of the project ensures more trust in the project! With the upgrades we have talked about so far in the article, these systems will have far better UX, and bring in more users into the Mina ecosystem, whilst encouraging users to move their MINA tokens into their self-custodial wallets to participate in the onchain governance. To sum up, I talked about the technical and structural changes that are rolling out in the Mina ecosystem. There are more changes to be talked about, but I chose the ones that are more interesting to me. Also, I should state that these changes are not enough to increase the adoption of Mina Protocol, but it is an important step. What o1Labs and Mina Foundation are trying to achieve is unique, not like copy-pasta EVM chains, so the path to success will be more painful, but hopefully more rewarding! I would like to appreciate the engineers working for making Mina better, and the community managers for communicating what Mina is trying to achieve with the community members & rest of the crypto community. Hope to see more people get Minapilled, and take care :) @MinaProtocol @o1_labs

The @ETHGlobal Bangkok was ended! Yesterday we saw a lot of good projects during the judging on @MinaProtocol 🔥 Our team congratulation 🎉🥳 all winners! Hope to see all of you on next events ☺️ Special thanks @zk_kirol , @dinaturalist , @AliSerag0 ♥️

Not worth quibbling at this stage over classification as we are all collectively pursing and growing product market fit. I do love to see how Mina and it's community are growing in terms of representation here, 'chapeau' to all these great builders! 1. Mina @minaprotocol: Core Infrastructure - contract platforms 2. o1JS @o1_labs: Developer tools & services - sdks 3. Reclaim @reclaimprotocol: Developer tools & services - verifiable data 4. ZKON @zkon_network: Developer tools & services - verifiable data 5. Zeko @zekolabs: Developer tools & services - framework & sdk 6. Hakata @Hakata_io, @etonec_gmbh: Developer tools & services - integrity & security 7. Paima @PaimaStudios: Developer tools & services - gaming 8. Lumina @LuminaDEX: Protocols - Dexes 9. Auro Wallet @aurowallet_com: Apps - Wallet Not too mention many of the projects Mina is partnered with like @alignedlayer I am sure I have missed a few so apologies for that, not intentional. Plus quite a number that are missing from the EC diagram too like these amazing teams and projects Dev tools: @proto_kit Dex: @kaupangdx Wallet: @pallad_ Gaming: @TileVilleSocial, @ZkNoid cc @ForbesCrypto

🚀🎉 Big news, everyone! 🎉🚀 The L1 Lottery game is now officially LIVE on the @MinaProtocol #mainnet! 🎊 Play now 👉 app.zknoid.io/games/lottery/… Dive into a redefined experience where fun meets the unmatched security and provability of #ZK. Grab your gift codes in the #MINA space, buy more tickets, and seize your chance to WIN BIG!

50+ projects are in development, spanning use cases from zkKYC and private voting to games and DEXes. Others are building key infrastructure like bridges, data availability, oracles, and L2s. After thorough testing and audits, these projects will be ready to deploy on mainnet.

Private attestations on Mina are here! @zksecurityXYZ recently completed Mina Attestations, a standard and library to create proofs of personal credentials in a secure and private manner. Currently supporting native and imported credentials, Mina Attestations has been audited by @hackenclub. More details → minaprotocol.com/blog/mina-a… Check out the Github to get started → github.com/zksecurity/mina-a…

🚀✨ Exciting News, MinaNFT Community! ✨🚀 Now, transactions with MinaNFT on the @MinaProtocol mainnet are faster than ever! You can send multiple mint and buy transactions without waiting for previous ones to be included in the block. They will all be included in the same block! ⏩🚀 No more waiting several minutes after each transaction! Mint and buy seamlessly. 🎉🌟 #MinaNFT #MinaProtocol #FastTransactions #BlockchainInnovation

Introducing the #MinaCon Recap by #Staketab! 🎉 3 days of innovation, discussions, and new collaborations at the Minacon Unconference. From ideas to real solutions, @MinaProtocol is moving forward! Catch the full recap of this inspiring event. 🚀💡 👉 minascan.io/mainnet/news/566

Congrats to the first Mina Navigators Season 2 grantees 🏆 @zkNoid (Lottery Game) @KaffelMahmoud (Developer Tooling) @0xStruct (Developer Tooling) 🎊🎊🎊 zkNoid is a provable gaming platform on Mina Protocol. Right now, the team is focused on launching a lottery game with real funds. This project also will integrate @zkon_network for VRF for fair selection. They plan to deploy the lottery game to mainnet this summer! Enhancements to ZK Regex in o1js. Many tooling improvements are on the way to this powerful package which aims to enable the verification of text data within a ZKP framework. Developers can leverage ZK Regex to securely verify the presence of specific text patterns without compromising data privacy, opening the door to a wide range of use cases such as secure messaging, confidential document validation, and more. Support for JSON web token (JWT) verification in o1js. JWTs are an open internet standard for representing claims securely between two parties. Because popular platforms (Apple, Facebook, Google, etc.) use OAuth/OpenID which rely on JWTs, this work sets the stage for onboarding new users to the Mina ecosystem (and crypto as a whole) by allowing them to access on-chain applications and services using their existing logins. For more information on these projects, see here → forums.minaprotocol.com/c/mi… Navigator grants are available on a rolling basis! Submit a proposal here to get your ZK project funded → minafoundation.notion.site/M…

There’s been a lot happening behind the scenes, and I’m fully aware we haven’t shared enough. I’m here to try and give as much information as possible while we’re still in flight. I’ve also committed to a community call next week to address any outstanding questions. As CEO of @o1_labs , I’ll do everything in my ability to get Mina back on track, hand in hand with the community. This starts with the transition between Mina Foundation and o1Labs. 🏠 In addition to the technical roadmap, o1Labs has now assumed ownership of core functions, including: marketing, community, grant and delegation programs, and tools & infrastructure. This means we’ll all be rowing in the same direction and operating in a unified way and without duplicating efforts. 🪗 What has become clear also is that myself and the broader @MinaProtocol ecosystem should set better expectations about Mina: Instead of building on Mina as a monolith, developers should be building with Mina and treating it as a stack--this includes the zkDSL (o1js), settlement layer (Mina protocol), the bridge layer ( @nori_zk bridge + @alignedlayer bridge), the query layer (web node), etc. Previously, the expectation was set that launching extra layers of infrastructure was the only way to achieve better and more performant apps. I want to emphasize that builders don’t need to be blocked by the delivery of those platforms. Developers can leverage components of Mina’s stack today, right now, and build functioning products: Such as idmask.xyz/ and silvana.one/ and zkvot.io/ that are being built by incredible builders in the Mina community. Since Mina Protocol doesn’t have an execution environment (the chain verifies application execution proofs!), only devs who eat glass should try to build consumer apps on Mina until a simple execution environment enters production: We’re so excited for @ZekoProtocol or @proto_kit or Pulsar or something new--they are all valuable projects to the Mina ecosystem that enable developers to build with Mina in new ways. But you don’t need to wait! Devs can build with Mina right now using a browser/nodejs execution environment to build with o1js from the Mina stack. We realize the documentation on how to build with Mina in this way is lacking, so we’re committed to creating more resources and supporting the community with dedicated spaces to answer questions and engage in discussions. ⚒️ The o1Labs engineering team is focused on improving Mina across these two initiatives: 1. The protocol upgrade in the fall, which will include important enhancements to network performance, security and functionality. Several MIPs are planned for this, with the first one already in progress: We will speed up slot time by 2x + remove the soft-limit on zkapp transactions per block. 2. As o1js is a key part of the Mina stack, we are dedicating a team internally to optimizing o1js for the long term, and in parallel will work to better communicate how o1js works with what we have today. There’s no way we can build everything ourselves. That’s why we will also be taking an active role in supporting and growing the adoption of important ecosystem projects that will unlock use cases, including @zkcloudworker, @zknoid , @fizk_protocol’s zkUSD in addition to the ones mentioned earlier in the post, and even more! 🏙️ It takes more than tech to build an ecosystem. I’m shifting the whole company and challenging each person to think more practically and create tighter feedback loops between the community, the engineering team, and our marketing efforts. When we first founded Mina, it was one of the best communities in the space with super engaged, friendly and helpful members. I want to re-energize our community and commit to making decisions with and for the community in mind. If you have any specific needs or suggestions for creating tighter feedback loops, tell us in the community call next week. I know there’s a lot to digest and figure out still, but I’m excited about the future of Mina, more than ever. Our renewed approach of focus--focusing on enabling builders to build with Mina, focusing on the new upgrade and o1js, and focusing on tight feedback loops with the community--will guide the Mina ecosystem enter its next chapter of flourishing. ✨

🚀Are you ready for the first zkLottery on @MinaProtocol? The second @ZkNoid #testnet is LIVE! 🌟 Dive into #zkGaming, contribute to ZkNoid, and stand a chance to win your share of the 1000 $MINA in prizes! 💰 Here’s how to join in on the action: 1️⃣ Follow ZkNoid on Discord and Telegram👇 discord.gg/8jWdav5e9J t.me/ZkNoid 2️⃣ Create a #MINA wallet with @aurowallet_com or @pallad_ 3️⃣ Get test tokens from the faucet: faucet.minaprotocol.com/ 4️⃣ Visit the Lottery quest site: quest.zknoid.io/ 5️⃣ Complete all tasks 6️⃣ Fill out this form share your feedback: forms.gle/fLUbQQSwzbQchiRa6 🔧 Don’t forget to report any bugs on Discord! Let’s go!🎉

Let's celebrate the winners from each category of the #ZekoBoost Developer Contest 🏆 🏅 Congratulations to the winners 🏅: ⚫️ ZKON (@zkon_network) - Finance 🟢 ZkNoid (@ZkNoid) - Gaming 🟣 Pallad (@pallad_) - Internet 🔵 Swan Chain (@swan_chain) - AI The top teams earn a Marketing Boost, Strategy Boost, and Investor Boost from @ZekoLabs. Stay tuned for the community poll to determine the Bonus Prize winner of a Free Audit 👏 and join the Zeko Discord to start building (discord.gg/vSDxqAchUY)

⚔️ Lobby VS Matchmaking ⚔️ @ZkNoid implemented lobbies concept to the games. Let’s see what does it mean and when to prefer over matchmaking 👀 1⃣If you want to play with people you know, lobby is the best place. Just create a lobby with desired participation fee. Winner will got all the match #funds 🏆. 2⃣ When you don’t have friends ready to play 💁‍♀️, you can choose the matchmaking option. Here you opponent will be found automatically from the match queue. Just choose the correct matchmaking room and start playing 🔥 #zkApp #BlockchainInnovation #gamingposts

Last day of #EthGlobal #Bangkok Hackathon, 6 AM, and the @ZkNoid team is still holding the fort at the Mina booth. Thanks for the dedication, guys! 🙌

The @MinaProtocol / @ethereum bridge is coming and it is utilizing the @alignedlayer work to create a two way soloution. Listen to @zk_kirol below...