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Ethereum Devs Push ZK ‘Secret Santa’ System Toward Deployment

The proposed protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify sender–receiver relationships without revealing identities.

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Boundless Launches Mainnet on Base, Ushering in Universal Zero-Knowledge Compute

The milestone builds on the network’s incentivized testnet, which went live in July and stress-tested Boundless’ architecture under real-world conditions.

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Risc Zero’s 'Boundless' Incentivized Testnet Goes Live

The incentivized testnet, which the team is calling its Mainnet Beta, will let users participate in the network's decentralized marketplace for ZK computation.

RISC Zero is building a scalable blockchain using zk rollups (Andrew Haimerl/Unsplash)

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'Everything Is Encrypted': Aztec’s Privacy Rollup Hits Testnet Amid Growing Demand

The solution comes after 8 years of development and as institutions seek transaction confidentiality.

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Bitcoin DeFi Expansion Faces Fork Dilemma as Developers Explore ZK Proofs

BitcoinOS contributor and crypto OG Edan Yago describes forks on Bitcoin as like "open-heart surgery."

Photo of Edan Yago standing in front of  a sponsor board. (Courtesy: BitcoinOS)

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Babylon Labs Brings New Momentum to Bitcoin ZK Tech Through Bridge to Cosmos Chains

Babylon, developer of the largest BTC staking protocol, is teaming up with Bitcoin developers Fiamma to build a trust-minimized bridge using BitVM2

Bridge (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

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Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain

Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.

Ethereum itself is made up of several layers. (Annie Spratt/Unsplash)

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Ethereum's ENS Identity System Set to Launch Own Layer-2 Blockchain

"Namechain" will use a zero-knowledge rollup for scaling and is likely to go live around the end of 2025.

Ethereum Name Service founder Nick Johnson (ENS)

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Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys BitVM-Based Bridge 'Clementine' on Testnet

Citrea's aim is to use Bitcoin as a settlement layer to make it "the foundation for the world's finance."

Citrus, clementine (Fotozeit/Pixabay)

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Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography

The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, which is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon's AggLayer.

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon)

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