Very excited to join Helius as Head of Privacy.
Since 2021 we solved the core building blocks of onchain privacy: single-tx ZK verification, and cheap scalable nullifier storage.
At Helius we will fuse them into the most scalable programmable privacy protocol directly on Solana
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.
Excited to join @HeliusPrivacy to grow the Solana Privacy Protocol.
After years of building ZK and scaling infrastructure on Solana, we're ready to close the gap standing between crypto and mainstream adoption.
We'll make privacy accessible on Solana through simple APIs for internet finance and capital markets.
Two of my favorite teams partnering up.
Excited to be a launch partner with @altitude, making onchain money movement private for businesses, at Solana speed.
Very excited to join Helius as Head of Privacy.
Since 2021 we solved the core building blocks of onchain privacy: single-tx ZK verification, and cheap scalable nullifier storage.
At Helius we will fuse them into the most scalable programmable privacy protocol directly on Solana
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.
Solana account costs are too high and rent reductions are not enough for payments at scale.
That’s why we built light-token.
Costs near compressed tokens.
UX and Devx of Solana accounts.
Introducing the Light Token SDK for Payments
- reduces Solana ATA fees to $0.001
- works with all SPL, including USDC, PYUSD, USDG
- new drop-in API, upgrading from spl-token takes ~5 minutes
Live on Mainnet today, use with all leading RPC providers.
Enjoy
Human verification needs to scale to billions of users. That’s why we’re partnering with @LightProtocol.
Using ZK Compression, VeryAI records verification events on @solana with compressed accounts that are ~5,000× cheaper than standard accounts.
The result: verifiable onchain proofs without exposing user data.
Proof of Reality for the new internet.
Today, we're introducing the Light token program, a high-performance token standard for rent-free DeFi on @solana.
It reduces the cost of allocating onchain accounts by 200x while being more CU efficient than SPL-token on hot paths.
@jacobvcreech@redacted_noah light-zero-copy implements borsh compatible zero copy macros that can handle strings options vecs and unaligned memory.
Probably not mature enough for default anchor integration but a start.
@redacted_noah Yeah pretty much, similar to a struct of references with the same fields as borsh struct.
The first fields that implement Copy are aggregated into a single zero copy until one field doesn’t.
After that it does multiple zerocopies for non copy types eg options and vecs.
@redacted_noah its a derive macro based on the zerocopy crate.
It derives an optimised Zstruct for your borsh struct and does multiple casts to support options and vectors.
Its on crates io
https://t.co/8TzBxPlhhG
but no docs see tests as example
https://t.co/h05Qk1bLCV
Built a zk ID example with compressed accounts.
- private onchain id verification with Groth16 zk proofs
- compressed pdas to nullify id verification for an event
- no custom indexer required, Rpcs already index compressed accounts in state trees
link below
Attention Cypherpunk builders from Portugal!
Another week, another ZK Compression workshop.
This wednesday, 11 AM (WEST) at the @SolanaPT buildstation & online
you'll learn
> how to use rent-free accounts
> how ZK Compression works
> demo & q&a
link below
Benched wincode for instruction data
(156 bytes, incl 3 options, 1 Vec<u8>)
Wincode: 1,402 CU
Bincode: 3,224 CU
Borsh: 421 CU
rkyv: 172 CU
borsh zero copy: 124 CU
Interesting that bincode serialisation adds that much overhead.
see below for the benchmark code.