There has been so much activity happening in the world of Mina Protocol over the last few weeks. zkApps are on testnet and there is hive of activity from developers participating in zkIgnite and completing the zkApp tutorials to earn $MINA for their work.
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O(1) Labs – ZK Hack THU Dec 8th 16:40 UTC
ZK Hack is a virtual event series featuring weekly workshops and advanced puzzle solving competitions. Each week, participants will be able to learn about key ZK concepts and tools and/or compete to find bugs in protocols in our puzzle competition and win prizes.
Epcoh 41, MINA’s numbers by Everstake
Everstake are a trusted Mina Validator and their team regularly produce excellent Mina Protocol related content on social media. In addition to their own statistics regarding their validator service after each Epoch they put together a compilation of information
zkIgnite – $250K MINA prize pool: Build, Test & Deploy zkApps on Mina Protocol (testnet)
There’s still time to join the new zkIgnite, Cohort O, but don’t hang around, stage one (or actually stage 0) ends in two weeks on December the 15th. Entrants can complete tutorials based around snarkyJS and potentially win rewards from a $250k MINA prize pool. Last week the code was downloaded over several thousand times […]
zkApps: 2000+ SnarkyJS downloads this week
Developers are starting to get a taste for zkApps and now that there’s the potential to build them on Berkeley testnet the increase in downloads of snarkyJS, (the typescript library created by O(1) labs needed to build them) has been noticeable.
Events: Mina zkApp Developers Meetup – Bangalore (Thu Dec 1st)
There have been 14 Mina Protocol Developers meets-ups so far this year and the last one of 2022 will take place in Bangalore, India just before the start of ETHIndia, where incidentally Mina Protocol is also one of the sponsors of the event.
New Medium article by Phil Kelly from O(1) Labs
The recent FTX situation has thrown a whole range of discussion points on the table in so far as decentralisation, safe CEXes (see the twitter space here) and the problem of trust in crypto generally. Phil Kelly, COO of O(1) Labs has written an excellent Medium article entitiled ‘Composable Identity with ZK: Avoiding Web3 data […]
O(1) Labs Twitter Space – Wed 23 Nov 11am PT(16:00 UTC)
In the next Twitter space, Phil continues the conversation with O(1) Labs team member and Mina Protocol Architect Engineer, Brandon Kase and among the topics up for discussion are ‘Safer CEXes’.
zkApps: Cohort 0 – Tue Nov 22nd + Live virtual event
Here’s another exciting development on the road to zkApps being live on the Mina Protocol mainnet.
Medium: O(1) Labs – Midpoint Update on the zkApps Builders Program
O(1) Labs, the incubators behind Mina Protocol have just published a new medium article regarding the zkApps Builders Program, an 11-week program bringing talented developers from around the world together to learn about zero-knowledge programming, and build zero-knowledge smart contracts (“zkApps”)