The rabbit hole goes deeper than most think on $NPT
Firstly, and to get some perspective even after this recent PA: the price I was quoted 15 months ago was 20 EUR or $23, it's currently sitting just above $7
Check the image attached
With that out the way, the deeper you dig on @NeptuneCash the wilder it gets.
Microsoft's senior researcher Srinath Setty & wider cryptography team is literally building on the same paper that underpins Neptune Cash, and a16'z latest "Lasso/Jolt" systems are derived from it too (1).
Let's go down the rabbit hole ๐ฐ
In 2020, three researchers named Benedikt Bunz, Ben Fisch, and Alan Szepieniec published a paper named "Transparent SNARKs from DARK Compilers" (2). It quietly changed zero-knowledge forever: no trusted setup or logarithmic proofs and real scalability.
Alan took those primitives and turned them into something real with a working system now known as Neptune Cash, built directly on the DARK framework (his own invention).
Then, in 2024-2025, Microsoft's Head of Cryptography - Srinath Setty - published Lasso and Surge. Go read the Lasso paper, it literally cites Alan's paper under ref BFS20 as its core reference for polynomial commitments.
Setty's Lasso = Microsoft Research building on Neptune's underlying cryptography.
a16z Crypto = planning open-source releases of Lasso / Jolt, also citing BFS20, Alan's paper.
You are frontrunning a16z.
To recap:
โข Alan Szepieniec co-authors "Transparent SNARKs from DARK Compilers" -> invents DARK compiler
โข That tech = the base of Neptune Cash
โข Microsoft Research -> exploring it in Lasso
โข a16z -> looking to commercialize it
Yet it all stems from @NeptuneCash
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Receipts
1. https://t.co/P2l4EocTvo.
2. https://t.co/WAettkMnWT
Great write up and good comparison between $ZEC and $NPT from @YorichiiCrypto
$NPT is currently valued 300x less that $ZEC
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