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In anticipation of Mina’s mainnet launch, the Mina Foundation is excited to share the list of node operators participating in the Seed Peer Providers Program. Seed Peer Providers are an independent group of nodes that assist new nodes to find peers and connect to the Mina Protocol. This improves the onboarding experience for other nodes, […]
Mina Protocol leverages Ouroboros Samasika, a succinct proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, to achieve strong decentralization properties.
The entire Mina blockchain is about 22kb - the size of a couple of tweets.
Mina’s mainnet release candidate is planned to launch in two weeks! After two years of rigorous testing and strengthening the protocol with the Mina community, we are excited to take the next steps and head to mainnet! Mainnet Release Candidate: March 16, 2021 Mina’s mainnet release candidate (RC) is planned to launch on March 16, […]
Highlights/Stats Testworld was the largest Proof of Stake testnet outside of ETH 2.0 with 4.6K participants and 1.2k concurrently connected to the network. 12.6K total challenges submitted, racking up to 20M testnet points. Participation resulted in 265 new Genesis Founding Members bringing the community to a total of 663 members for the launch of […]
The Mina Foundation and Ethereum Foundation have announced a joint request for proposals (RFP), to enable recursive SNARK applications, on the Ethereum blockchain.
The Mina Foundation will be the non-profit steward of the Mina Protocol that supports the project issuing grants to third parties that make significant contributions and by maintaining & managing community assets.
As Mina's preferred institutional custodian, Finoa will support the expansion of Mina holders to include large financial institutions, corporate treasuries as well as venture capital, and pension and endowment funds.
Gauntlet's research report on Mina Protocol reveals that Mina's use of recursive zk-SNARKs improves scalability while retaining high resilience to 51% attacks.
Mina has launched its bug bounty program to uncover security vulnerabilities in preparation for mainnet launch.
Mina launches its adversarial testnet, "Testworld," to uncover vulnerabilities and ensure the network is resilient in the lead-up to mainnet.
In PLONK (considered as an interactive oracle proof), the prover sends the verifier several polynomials. They are evaluated at some k points during the course of the protocol. Of course, if we want zero-knowledge, we would require that those evaluations do not reveal anything about the proof's underlying witness.
Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to deliver true decentralization at scale.
Getting started with ZK on Mina is simple.
