We’re bringing private transfers and shielded payouts to BNB Smart Chain.
Introducing zkBNB, a launchpad with zero-knowledge privacy built in. Launch tokens, redeem BNB from token vaults, and receive harvests, rewards and donations directly into a shielded pool.
Launch a token against native BNB. Every trade adds to its BNB vault and funds $ZKBNB buybacks and burns. Holders can burn their tokens to redeem their share of the vault, while creators choose whether payouts fund holders, causes or a designated wallet.
The same 2% trading fee applies to every coin, with the split enforced on-chain.
Harvests, rewards and donations can go directly into our shielded pool, where recipients can transfer BNB privately. Payout amounts remain public and verifiable.
Launch on zkBNB: https://t.co/QqnrmY2EGJ
CA: 0xe3e96140f464196440959439ca42f01f986a7777
Move BNB is how you get privacy on BNB Chain. Here's why that matters.
On BNB Chain, anyone can look up your wallet and see what you hold, who you paid and who paid you.
Move BNB changes that. Shield BNB into the pool and send it to another zkbnb1… address, and the link between sender and receiver is hidden. Unshield to a fresh wallet and nothing points back to the one you started from.
You can get paid, pay others and move your own funds without your whole history attached to every transaction.
Shields and unshields are still public, and privacy gets stronger as more people use the pool.
https://t.co/pSXgThZkHH
zkBNB Stage 2: Dark Curve deployment and testing update.
The website is now live, the latest privacy and security improvements are public on GitHub, and we've successfully tested Dark Curve against a local fork of BNB Chain mainnet.
6/6 mainnet fork tests passed.
This is an important milestone because we're no longer just testing isolated components. We're verifying how private trading interacts with the existing zkBNB ecosystem and real deployed contracts.
Here's what we've confirmed:
1. Private trading on the live bonding curve
Private buy, sell, and harvest batches successfully settle against the existing bonding curve.
Individual trading activity remains represented within private batches, while the underlying token economics continue operating as designed.
2. Private trading after graduation
The same private trading batches successfully settle through PancakeSwap once a token graduates from the bonding curve.
This includes the existing transfer-tax mechanism.
Privacy shouldn't disappear just because a token graduates.
3. Protection against price manipulation
Batches with impossible minimum-output requirements correctly revert, without permanently closing the batch.
This preserves price protection and allows valid settlement to be retried.
4. Private rewards and token launches
Reward distribution has been tested against the existing HolderRewards contract, subject to keeper authorization.
Private planting also works through the existing Launchpad.
Users can participate in launches and receive rewards through the shielded infrastructure without requiring an entirely separate token ecosystem.
5. Mainnet integration verified
Dark Curve was connected to the existing Launchpad, FeeRouter, Roots, HolderRewards, and Stage 1 privacy pool on a local mainnet fork.
All six integration tests passed.
The website is live at https://t.co/kDCrPgbXJf, and the latest code is available at https://t.co/GMCNgsAbpi.
Our goal remains the same:
A launchpad where trading, token ownership, launches, and rewards can operate with substantially less public exposure of individual financial activity, without breaking the underlying token economics.
Transparent money. Private people.
https://t.co/kDCrPgbXJf
zkBNB Stage 2: Dark Curve security and privacy update.
We're continuing to strengthen the privacy infrastructure behind private trading, shielded holdings, and holder rewards.
The latest improvements focus on closing potential privacy leaks, preventing transaction manipulation, and making the system fairer for everyone.
1. Fairer rewards for private holders
Shielded holders can earn rewards without exposing their holdings.
Now, each reward distribution is recorded and funded in a single transaction, preventing someone from entering the pool at the last moment to capture rewards earned by earlier holders.
2. Anti-sandwich protection for private trades
Every private trading batch now has its minimum acceptable output cryptographically bound to its zero-knowledge proof.
This prevents someone from copying a transaction, removing its price protection, and exploiting the batch.
Settlement remains permissionless, meaning anyone can settle a valid batch without relying on a single operator.
3. Stronger privacy through smarter batching
Privacy depends on blending individual activity into a larger group.
Previously, an order arriving just before a batch closed could end up being the only trade in that batch, potentially revealing its amount.
The relayer now automatically waits for the next batch when the current one is about to close, reducing the risk of isolated trades exposing information.
4. Additional zero-knowledge safeguards
We've added another range check inside the private claim circuit, strengthening the cryptographic constraints that protect private claims.
5. Testing and verification
All tests pass, including real zero-knowledge proofs:
13/13 circuit tests
52/52 contract tests
65/65 keeper tests
108/108 web tests
Privacy isn't just about encrypting transactions.
It's about protecting users from transaction correlation, unfair reward extraction, price manipulation, and information leaks at every stage of the trading process.
That's what we're continuing to build with Dark Curve.
Transparent money. Private people.
https://t.co/kDCrPgbpTH
zkBNB Stage 2: Dark Curve is now public.
We started with private BNB transfers. Now we’re expanding into private trading, token ownership and rewards.
**Here’s what we’ve built:**
• GrovePool brings BNB and launchpad tokens into one shared shielded pool.
• DarkCurve encrypts buys and sells, settling them in batches without exposing each trader or their individual trade amount.
• Private planting and claims let users participate without publicly linking claims to trading activity.
• Shielded holders can earn rewards while keeping their tokens inside the pool.
• A standalone relayer submits transactions, so your personal wallet doesn’t need to submit them or pay gas directly.
Four new ZK circuits, on-chain verification and a new private trading interface power the expansion. Batch settlement preserves the existing bonding curve, fees and token flywheel.
392 tests passed across circuits, contracts, keeper and web, plus full end-to-end execution on a local blockchain.
The code is all public, view our github here:
https://t.co/GMCNgszDzK
zkBNB is for anyone who wants the money to be public and the people to be private.
Creators who want to fund a project without a team allocation. You launch a coin and choose where 0.80% of every trade goes: your wallet, another wallet, holders, or a ring of causes.
Holders who want something behind the coin. Every coin has Roots, a BNB vault funded by 0.50% of every trade, and you can burn tokens to harvest your share. Holders can also be paid in BNB just for holding.
Traders who don't want their wallet on display. Payouts can land in the shielded pool, and dark pools let you trade without your wallet appearing on the trade.
Private BNB transfers are LIVE on @zkBNBx
Our zero-knowledge tools are now officially in production, alongside key rotation, pool feed, dividends and the fee flushing protocol.
The relayer is deployed with access logging disabled, helping keep user activity private beyond the transaction itself.
A major release for $ZKBNB. Try it and let us know what you think.
Over 10,000$ USD in $ZEC has been distributed to $ZKBNB holders.
It has been a crazy first 24 hours and we are excited to announce what's next. Stay tuned.
GM $ZKBNB
BIG day ahead for @zkBNBx.
New updates are rolling out today, and Dark Pools are going live.
We’ll share the details as everything rolls out.
We appreciate and value your your feedback. Let us know what you think as you try the new updates.
Every coin on zkBNB has Roots: a BNB vault funded by 0.50% of every trade on that coin.
Burn tokens to harvest your proportional share of the vault. Both the BNB balance and token supply shrink together, so harvesting doesn’t reduce the BNB backing each remaining token.
Receive BNB in your wallet or harvest into the shielded pool for private transfers afterwards. The harvest transaction itself remains public.
Roots cap at 50 BNB by default; further contributions go to that coin’s holder-reward pot. Neither the admin nor the creator can withdraw Roots BNB. It only leaves when holders burn tokens.
After months of development, @zkBNBx dark pool and vault contracts are live on testnet. We’re pushing to production tomorrow, bringing private transfers to the BNB Chain.
You've seen this on SOL and ETH and we are proud to say that we are the first launchpad bringing this to BNB.
Testnet contracts
Dark pool:
0xade2c2E6F0edB8bc8d19ECc7BBcA466A9f60e3AF
Vault implementation:
0x6cbf0C7478956FB738E8129e960Ff4eEf4383605
Bringing darkpools to @binance with $ZKBNB
zkBNB protocol is now open source.
Contracts, the ZK circuit with its ceremony transcript, and the keeper are all public under an MIT license. Deployed bytecode can be checked against the source, and no contract is upgradeable.
No external audit yet. One is planned.
https://t.co/GMCNgszDzK