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Joon Kim—former General Counsel at Terra, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Lightyear Capital, and Assistant General Counsel and Vice President at Goldman Sachs—is welcomed to the o1Labs team.
o1Labs announced that it has established a Testnet Advisory Board, and will welcome two industry leaders, Zaki Manian and Luke Youngblood, as technical advisors.
Due to a trademark lawsuit filed by R3 in 2019, Coda has relaunched as Mina, the world's lightest blockchain powered by participants.
Adversarial testnet participants can earn up to 1% of the total supply in token rewards for uncovering network vulnerabilities, earn delegations from the Mina Foundation, and also be eligible for the Genesis token grants program.
Kunkomu joined the community in the early days and has evolved to be a true community leader, from learning how to run a node himself back in release 2 to now helping newcomers with their node configurations. He has always been very active and passionate about the Mina community and many know to turn to him for any help or questions they may have. Learn more about this GFM!
By pairing aspiring node operators new to crypto with its technical ambassadors, Mina Protocol intends to grow the ecosystem as part of Mentor Nodes Program.
Genesis Founding Member niuniu | Bit Cat has been a core contributor to Mina, especially in the Chinese-speaking Mina community, since the launch of Testnet beta. Read more about his experiences and why he decided to get involved.
Pickles is a new proof system and associated toolkit that is the first deployed SNARK capable of recursive composition with no trusted setup.
With mainnet launch on the horizon, Coda Protocol accepts its second cohort into the Genesis token program to ensure high decentralization upon mainnet launch.
One year since launching its public testnet, Coda Protocol has achieved milestones like significant community growth and high geographic distribution among participation, with members hailing from over 180 different countries.
Over the past year, Coda’s Testnet has grown from a small group of 65 community members to a cohort of over 850 hailing from all over the world. In fact, since launch the Coda testnet has experienced 1200% growth in cumulative members. Thanks to our active community, the Coda testnet is now one of the largest layer 1 testnets by peer count for non-ICO-ed protocols!
With testnet participants now numbering over 700 in Coda’s Testnet Phase 3, release 3.2b marked the biggest testnet release in Coda history. Around the start, one of the block explorers observed 278 peers within 24 hours (and this node is only seeing a part of the network!), and at the end of the release, there were at least 275 concurrent nodes!
Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to deliver true decentralization at scale.
Getting started with ZK on Mina is simple.
