Big Solana news:
The Light Protocol team is joining Helius to help build Solana's most complete ZK privacy layer.
Private payments, markets, and finance -- at Solana scale.
Fully composable, fully onchain, fully open-source.
The kind of migration that Zcash is going to execute this summer to post-quantum ready, formally verified , supply verified cryptography is something every cryptocurrency will have to do in next 3 years and Zcash will do it all in a month or so.
the age of banks having a monopoly over money and locking people in to milk them in perpetuity is coming to an end
naturally, they are crashing out
if you think crypto is irrelevant, ask yourself why it makes the most powerful suits so scared
Zcash pumped and now Near, Venice, Railgun, et al. are in a race to build the mostly widely adopted privacy tools and protocols. For a moment really enjoy this return to cypherpunk roots, it’s nice to actually be rooting for everybody for once
I first backed @buchmanster 10 years ago
When he was building @Tendermint_Core, later @cosmos, for a world that had not yet learned how to value industrial-grade consensus layers, which became root architecture for many state of art designs nowadays
Now he’s tackling something even more foundational: a future proof global monetary clearing system
A lot of people talk about the future of money as ideology. Very few founders are willing to go after the actual monetary machinery underneath it, where the deepest network effects ultimately live. That’s exactly why @cyclesmoney is so exiting
Super stoked to be on another 10-year arc with my bro who's work and thinking ages this well
When we started working with the Cycles team, I thought it was going to take years to build a useful product (clearing requires big time network effects)
Turns out, 3 months later, they've shipped the first private business app (with saving accounts, powered by @hydromarkets's magic)
Today, we're launching ZCAM, an iPhone camera app to Prove What’s Real.
ZCAM cryptographically signs photos and videos at the moment of capture. Anyone can independently verify the content came from a real device and hasn't been altered or AI-generated.
quantum recoverability will ship within 2 weeks
hashrate is at ATHs and mining pools are decentralizing
shielded pool is increasing in size
and now, zcash is getting faster
plan Z is working
KYC = Kill your customer
First Coinbase, now Kraken data.
We need to get legislation adapted to have companies verify what they need, but long term store the bare minimum.
“I think the line in Vision 2.0 captures this very well: if 10KB/s opened the AMM era, and 10MB/s opened the onchain orderbook era, then only by pushing several more orders of magnitude higher can we open the "everything markets" era.
The point is not "faster" in itself. The point is what finally becomes possible.”
People don't understand the sheer volume of what is shipping in Zcash 2026. Just on the protocol side
- Quantum Recoverability
- New shielded pool w/ Recursive ZKPs
- Nullifier state growth eliminated
- Proof aggregation w/ miners
- On-chain Privacy preserving fee markets
- Most private token holder vote ever
- Fully killed shielded sync, while letting you sync from chain
- Seemless, private onboarding
- PQ Privacy
- 3x block time speedup
- 50x TPS raised
- DOS vector fully eliminated
- PIR to eliminate spendability delays
- PIR to solve PQ addresses
- PIR to eliminate lightwalletd privacy leaks