Why did a blockchain decide to build a phone?
.@m_it, head of Solana Mobile: "Crypto was taking off, lots of new apps are being built by all sorts of new developers."
"But all of that activity was stuck on desktop."
"The existing app marketplaces that Apple and Google built made it impossible to ship a crypto-centric app to a store. If you were a developer, you were totally blocked from distribution."
"On the user side, if you wanted to do anything onchain, you were basically chained to your home computer. The exact opposite of how 90% of the internet functions today."
"We just set out to solve that problem, give developers a way to access users without going through the Apple and Google rigmarole, policies, and fees."
"We just crossed our 1,000th app developers building new things, users trying them, getting that really tight feedback loop going."
✅ Tenth Epoch Distribution Complete ✅
The tenth epoch is now closed, and another 1,000,000 Rho Points have been distributed.
Ten weeks deep, the race is only getting more competitive. Did you climb the leaderboard this time?
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Announcing the Zama Public Auction.
We’re selling 10% of the $ZAMA supply via a sealed-bid Dutch auction on Ethereum, using the Zama Protocol itself to keep bids confidential with FHE.
Why this matters:
◼️ Fair distribution & real price discovery
◼️ No bot sniping or gas wars
◼️ Tokens are unlocked immediately
🗓️ Auction: Jan 12–15
🗓️ Claim: Jan 20
$ZAMA is the utility token of the Zama Protocol, a confidentiality layer for existing L1s/L2s:
◼️ Pay encryption & decryption fees
◼️ Stake or delegate to operators
◼️ Help secure FHE coprocessors & KMS nodes
Mainnet is expected to launch by year-end, with $ZAMA fully functional before the auction.
Get notified at launch: https://t.co/sOTkQX67Cl
RISE is evolving beyond universal L2 into the Home for Global Markets.
Built on the fastest EVM, RISE introduces:
• RISE MarketCore, a fully onchain, EVM composable orderbook layer for all apps
• RISEx, the first Integrated Perps DEX, where DeFi coexists with CEX-grade perps