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@murkfinance The privacy layer for onchain finance.
Closed beta live on @monad
Get access:

[sam @samvareal]

@RenoCzarr @murkfinance anyone who's interested in trying Murk: dm us @murkfinance

[sam @samvareal]

come to @murkfinance to earn yield privately, like @RenoCzarr !

[Reno Czarr @RenoCzarr]

Onchain finance has a transparency problem.
every single balance, transfer, & protocol interaction you make is permanently broadcasted for anyone to track.

@murkfinance is tackling this by introducing a privacy layer that lets you interact with mainstream DeFi without exposing your financial footprint.

Instead of forcing you into a closed mixer or a separate siloed ecosystem, Murk bridges privacy with real execution rails.

core Infrastructure details:
• zero-knowledge notes: balances are hidden using ZK proofs, keeping your activity completely private from public ledger surveillance.

• compliance guardrails: all incoming deposits are screened against risk and sanctions providers natively, separating protocol-level privacy from illicit mixing.

• native DeFi integration: execute different live private swaps via Matcha and Uniswap, or access lending and borrowing markets on Morpho & Aave directly from a shielded balance.

• network rollout: built as a single self-custody account launching first on Monad, with expansions to Ethereum and Base later.

Early adopters stand to gain complete self-custody where only you hold the keys as well as the ability to deposit once, operate privately, and withdraw back to any public wallet whenever you choose.

Formal verification already completed on their privacy circuits and smart contracts.
You get the utility of the protocols you already use, minus the public exposure.

be sure to add this to your watchlist.

ps: this is not a paid advertisement.

[» teej @teej_m]

Internet traffic grew 100x between ‘98 and ‘03. Every interesting website was invented in this era: Google, Wikipedia, MySpace, Wordpress, Livejournal, 4chan, Newgrounds, Craigslist, etc.

To make an interesting website, you need shared state. The only way to get shared state is with a database. That meant you used MySQL.

MySQL is a program that reads and writes shared state to disk. Disk drives were slow and expensive. A modern microSD card the size of your fingernail is 50x better and 10x cheaper than a disk drive in 2000. We used 32 bits back in those days, so a single machine capped out at 4GB of memory. MySQL didn’t support sharding natively, so you’re either stuck to a single machine or you write your own query router.

So your database, the thing that’s central to making your website cool, is constantly overloaded. Your website is going down and everyone is leaving. You’re barely treading water while the internet is growing 2% a week.

Then, the absolute legend @bradfitz, trying to keep LiveJournal online under 1000 req/sec of traffic, invented memcached. As the story goes, he was waiting for the shipment of a new physical server for his database when he realized his application servers had lots of unused memory. He could turn this into a shared network cache that would drastically reduce load on his database.

This new piece of software completely changed how websites were made. Within a few years, memcached was a mandatory part of the web stack, you couldn’t scale without it.

Some time later, @antirez came along and made a modern replacement with a lot of really nice features called Redis.

[cozy @cozymaximalist]

Imagine reading this and fading Zcash

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

At 250 billion DNS cache entries, one wasted byte costs 250 GB of RAM.

Five Rust optimizations later: 100 TB freed, inserts 43% faster, lookups 19% faster.

We didn't trade speed for space. https://t.co/mMyOYnj0mQ

[Arun @hiarun02]

In your life, you will meet many people like Raj.

Just ignore them.

[Jetner @jet_ner]

I've registered @murkfinance on @DeltaV_xyz

https://t.co/mScNJfHlkG

Time to accelerate!

[sam @samvareal]

that's why privacy should rely on strong cryptography, not a trusted box

[James @_jhunsaker]

in some cases who a person talks to on @signalapp can get them imprisoned or killed - relying on Intel SGX, which has been hacked many times, to keep that private is absurd

[James @_jhunsaker]

in some cases who a person talks to on @signalapp can get them imprisoned or killed - relying on Intel SGX, which has been hacked many times, to keep that private is absurd

[sam @samvareal]

should @murkfinance collaborate directly with @category_xyz on privacy? 🕵️‍♂️

[Keone Hon @keoneHD]

. @category_xyz is producing solutions in parallel on several of the Big Problems in crypto:

1. MEV-resistance / pre-trade privacy

2. quantum-resistance with a graceful transition

3. MCP / extreme pipelining

4. zkEVM

5. native rollups

It's a lot, but it's also as it should be for a technical team that wants to reshape the core guarantees and rules of crypto systems. Watch this space!

[Category Labs @category_xyz]

Kill a validator and watch MonadBFT route around it. A year ago, we released monad-viz, a way to view Monad consensus inside your browser. Since then, MonadBFT has picked up new features, like fast recovery.

During a recent hackathon, @omegablitz_ wrote an upgrade to monad-viz (below). As development on Cadence progresses, tools like monad-viz will evolve with it.

[sam @samvareal]

🙏

[Nazar @ustyianskyi]

Where I'm Early Right Now #8

@murkfinance

Mentioned them in my previous post and finally got an invite to the closed beta.
Privacy is the goal, and that's exactly what they're building.
I'll be testing it out and sharing feedback as I go.
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@entropyIO

The first liquid way to trade Anthropic.
They recently announced a $14M fundraise and I also mentioned them in my previous posts.

https://t.co/5XOvIEuVuF
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@tara_dot_com

I really liked the idea of using MPC with two separate accounts. Joined the waitlist and hopefully I'll be one of their early users.
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Which waitlists have you joined recently?

[Jrag.eth @Jrag0x]

Every dot on this map is a machine in someone's house verifying Ethereum.

No company runs this. It just stays up.

Enough to make a grown man cry.

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

one time I woke up and my codex was translating the quran to x86 assembly

[sam @samvareal]

@buildwithsid .env:
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[murk @murkfinance]

Most blockchains work like a public bank account.

Anyone can look up your wallet and see your balances, transactions, and activity.

Murk changes that.

When you deposit funds into Murk, they enter a shared pool. So no one can see which funds belong to which person.

Instead of exposing a balance onchain, Murk stores your funds as a collection of private “Notes.” Think of these as digital cash that only you can see and access.
Your private balance is simply the total value of all your Notes.

When you spend money, Murk spends one of your Notes instead of deducting from a balance. If you send 30 USDC from a 100 USDC Note, Murk creates a new 30 USDC Note for the recipient and returns the remaining value to you as a new Note (minus any fees).

This is similar to paying with a $100 bill at a store. You hand over the whole bill, the cashier keeps the amount you spent, and you receive change back.

Behind the scenes, Murk uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify that every transaction is valid without revealing your balance, which Notes were spent, or who owns them.

The result is simple: you get the same self-custodial experience as DeFi today, but without exposing your financial activity for everyone to see.

[sam @samvareal]

@zayn4pf get 💸 then passport isn't an issue anymore 😂
($MON ??)

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

LATEST: @monad proposes letting users replace lost or outdated wallet keys without changing their address, enabling post-quantum security upgrades, social recovery and passkey support without moving assets to a new wallet.

[Ben @0x1164]

They are literally re-running the 2020 Bitcoin shill playbook

[Denis Laskov 🇮🇱 @it4sec]

Hacking hardware security key into an air-gap-jumping worm: the hidden features of a YubiKey. 🔌🔑😈💻💥

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