Announcing the First Community Builder PGF Voting Round Greetings, friends and followers of Namada - Namada has now reached 5 weeks of the Community Builder program, which means that starting next week, community voting will begin in order to evaluate the first round of contributions from Community Builders who have been a part of the program so far. This first Namada Community Builder Voting Epoch will help determine the proportions of NAM allocated to those who took part in the program. This voting round will also inform those who will remain in
Community Builders Program Check in - Week 3 Hello everyone! Namada is a little over three weeks into the Namada Community Builder Program - so here's a little update on what I'd like to see either more or less of, and some fine-tuning I think would benefit Community Builders. With this in mind, I'm going to go over the following in this post: 1. Review the Namada Community Builder program structure 2. What Namada expects of those who are a part of the Community Builder Program (since, surprisingly {or maybe unsurprisingly}, reading th
PrivacyNamada Weekly Dev Update - October 26 In the past week, Namada has made strides across multiple fronts.
CommunityCommunity Builders and RPGF Program Updates This blog provides a comprehensive update on the status, onboarding procedures, and future timelines for community involvement.
CommunityUnleash Your Creativity with Namada's Visual Identity Kit Namada is pleased to introduce its Visual Identity Kit, thoughtfully designed to align with Namada's long term mission and vision.
PrivacyNamada Weekly Dev Updates - October 20 In a pivotal week for Namada, a new testnet version has been deployed—version v0.23.1, bringing some changes to Public Goods Funding (PGF) error propagation. All validators should upgrade, and here's the kicker: it's a soft-fork, meaning it's fully backwards compatible.
AnnouncementsThe Anoma Foundation To Allocate 10 Million NAM Tokens in Namada's First Community Builder RPGF Round In alignment with its overarching mission to advance digital privacy, Namada is pleased to announce its first-ever Community Builders Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RPGF) Round.
AnnouncementsJoin the Namada Community Builders Program Privacy is not about hiding, privacy is the freedom to reveal – and this freedom is for everyone.
TechNamada Weekly Dev Update: October 13, 2023 In the weeks spanning September 25 to October 13, Namada has made substantial strides in refining its core infrastucture, enhancing security, and elevating the user experience.
MultichainThe Advent of Modular Privacy in Decentralized Systems Historically, the architecture of decentralized systems compelled users to commit to particular cryptocurrencies, chains, or dApps to access privacy features.
TechNamada Weekly Dev Update, September 22 In the past week, Namada has made significant progress across various key areas, with a focus on enhancing the network's performance, security, and user experience.
TechNamada Weekly Dev Update, September 15 Over the past week, Namada concentrated on refining pivotal areas of the network, placing emphasis on IBC and Ethereum integrations, core code enhancements, as well as bolstering the network’s infrastructure ahead of the v0.23.0 release.
Speaking IBC on Namada Namada uses the CometBFT consensus engine, which allows for the possibility of integrating the interchain-blockchain-communication (IBC) system.
TechNamada Weekly Dev Update, September 8 In a continuous effort to keep the community informed, Namada is launching a new series of weekly updates around the protocol’s development. The primary focus of these updates is to shed light on the progression and enhancements of Namada's capabilities.
PrivacyAn Exploration into Shielded Data Publication on Modular Blockchains: Bridging Privacy and Efficiency with Namada and Celestia Note: There is active discussion in the community about renaming "Data Availability" to "Data Publication." As this term is less widely known at present, this post will use both terms interchangeably.
Joining the latest Namada Testnet Namada NEEDS YOU to test out the various features on Namada. But joining the Namada testnet can sometimes prove to be an arduous task, especially for a user that isn't super comfortable using the terminal and navigating the documentation. For reference, the documentation on how to setup a namada node is at https://docs.namada.net However, there is now an alternative! Below, I made a cheat script for you to use that should work with any Mac/Ubuntu machine. Copy and paste the below code into
PrivacyFinancial Privacy: A Fundamental Right Namada Stands For In an increasingly interconnected world, the spaces where individuals can exist free from scrutiny are dwindling. Privacy, particularly financial privacy, becomes a bastion of freedom.
Namada's Participation in Cosmoverse 2023 Hey Cosmos enthusiasts! Namada is thrilled to announce its Diamond sponsorship and participation at the Cosmoverse 2023 Conference, happening from October 2-4 in Istanbul, Turkey at the Swissôtel The Bosphorus.
AnnouncementsIntroducing Shielded Swaps on Osmosis In a milestone announcement at Osmocon2023 in Paris, France, Adrian Brink, co-founder of Namada, unveiled plans for an upcoming feature known as “Shielded Swaps” on Osmosis. The potential impact of this innovation is already generating excitement within the industry, offering Osmosis users the ability to privately swap tokens on a chain that doesn't inherently support privacy. Hot off the press from Osmocon 2023: Brace yourselves for a game-changer! Osmosis is joining forces with @Namada for '
MultichainUnveiling Namada's New Logo: The Symbol of a Unified Shielded Future in the World of Digital Assets Namada is delighted to unveil its new symbol of identity to the world. The new logo, more than an aesthetic upgrade, is a testament to the innovative spirit that drives Namada's efforts towards pioneering multi-chain asset-agnostic privacy.
A Journey Beyond EthCC: Namada and Anoma Event Schedule The collective forces of Namada and Anoma have been summoned to partake in an extensive array of blockchain events. This grand series of engagements reaches its zenith at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), set to be held in the heart of Paris this July. While EthCC undoubtedly steals the limelight, the blockchain week is inaugurated a day earlier with the "Autonomous Ecologies II" on July 16 and concludes with an assortment of side events. Here is a glimpse into the series of events:
CommunityNamada and Anoma at BUIDL Asia 2023: Join Us Heliax will be bringing the Namada and Anoma protocols to BUIDL Asia 2023, a premier blockchain event hosted by Erica Kang from KryptoSeoul and taking place in Seoul, Korea from June 6-7, 2023. Will you be there?
AnnouncementsRFC: Proposal for a public goods partnership between Namada and Osmosis Namada is proud to contribute to this burgeoning ecosystem, and we'd like to give spiritual and material thanks to the Osmosis community and lay the groundwork for future collaborations.
EconomicsUnderstanding Namada Governance Governance on Namada is built with the philosophy of malleability in mind. In this article we explore the features that Namada offers, and motivate them with regards to this philosophy. We explore PGF Stewards, PGF proposals, ETH bridge proposals and more
EconomicsNamada's positive sum economics In this article, we outline the positive-sum approach, first by talking about the various stakeholders and their respective interests at play. We then discuss the different ways in which the tokenomics of NAM fit in to satisfy these interests in a collective, balanced way.
PrivacySize Matters I’m building privacy tech for everyone, not just for cypherpunks. My chain analyst’s POV has helped me clearly articulate where data can be leaked, how privacy tech can go wrong. I hope this helps others who are building privacy-preserving protocols and dApps.
CommunityNamada and Anoma at Consensus by Coindesk in Austin We are thrilled to announce that Namada and Anoma will be attending and speaking at Consensus 2023 by Coindesk, the longest-running and premier Web3 event that draws developers, community members, and organizations from all across the world.
PrivacyNamada Featured in Messari Namada, a PoS L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy, has been featured in a recent report by Messari, the digital asset research firm. The report offers an in-depth look at the Namada protocol and its goal to equip users with a single, asset-agnostic privacy set shared across all networks.
RFC: Proposal for a strategic alliance between Namada and Zcash Zcash pioneered both the applied political philosophy and the cryptographic substrate required for freedom- and privacy-preserving payments. Without their work, neither the ZK ecosystem nor the ongoing dialogue about the public benefit of private payments would exist as we know them today. The Zcash protocol, community, and asset continue to be a font of world-class cryptography research (e.g. Halo 2), an organizing force promoting the importance of consent-preserving protocols in the public con
CommunityWinners of the ‘Privacy as a Public Good’ Meme Contest We are thrilled to announce that the votes are in, and the winners of our first ‘Privacy as a Public Good’ Meme Contest have been chosen! Find out who they are by reading this post.
PrivacyNamada Featured in Delphi Digital Privacy Report Delphi Digital has released a new report on the state of privacy in Web3, which takes a deep dive into Namada’s technology and inner workings along with those of other top projects, including Zcash, Tornado Cash, and Monero.
EconomicsPGF on Namada: public goods, capital efficiency, cool graphs - pick three Namada protocol aims to fund public goods divided into four categories: technical research, engineering, social research and external public goods. It aims to accomplish this endeavour through two means: continuous and retroactive public goods funding.
CommunityAnnouncing Namada’s first ‘Privacy as a Public Good’ Meme Contest Take home the gold medal! Starting March 17th, we're hosting a meme contest to celebrate our progress as a community. The theme? Privacy as a Public Good. Don’t hold back — we want to see your best meme-creation skills and humor. Details below!
CommunityNamada and Anoma at zkSummit in Lisbon: Join Us The 9th edition of the zkSummit Lisbon (April 3rd-4th) is almost upon us, we couldn’t be more excited to return one more year to meet and network with the amazing zero knowledge community (including maybe you?).
PrivacyWhy Do We Need Financial Privacy Now? As more information & assets are stored online, the need for effective solutions to privacy concerns becomes increasingly critical. It’s almost daily that we hear about privacy violations, with not only criminals on the hunt for your personal data, but governments & private entities too
SecurityThe Namada Cubic Proof-of-stake This article describes Namada's Cubic Proof-of-stake and the key improvements that it deploys, including epoched staking, cubic slashing, and auto-compounding rewards.
TechShaping Multichain Privacy Namada gives the privacy landscape a different shape, by providing the largest possible unified privacy set in the multichain, and complementing other chains by seeding/retrofitting privacy shielded actions
CommunityNamada & Anoma at ETHDenver: Join Us ETHDenver is coming up soon, and Namada and Anoma will be there – alongside other amazing Web3 projects and thought leaders – to network, learn, and shape the future of blockchain and privacy together.
SecurityThe Namada Ethereum Bridge This article discusses the design of the Namada Ethereum bridge starting with the background and motivations behind this design, followed by how the bridge works, and ending with the smart contract architecture.
TechExplaining the Namada 0.13.3 consensus fork Namada 0.13.3 was released on January 25 to address a testnet halt at the start of epoch 35. The cause of the halt was a rounding error when small bonds were converted into Tendermint voting power.
CryptographyUnderstanding the MASP/CC The MASP & CC implement multi-asset functionality and programmable asset-conversions. This article explains how the cryptography works and what other private applications can be built with the circuits.
TechNamada Testnet v0.13.0 Upgrade Postmortem Namada’s height-activated protocol upgrade failed to activate on the testnet at block height #37370 (18th of January 2023 between 19:00-21:00 UTC). This post is a diagnosis of what happened and the steps we plan to take to avoid this kind of issue in the future.
EconomicsPrivacy as a Public Good On Namada the shielded set is subsidised, so that the initial users do not depend on the existence of a sufficiently large shielded set. Instead, the subsidy is programmed to ensure that no matter the size of the shielded set, there is sufficient incentive for assets to enter the shielded set.
AnnouncementsCompletion of the Namada Trusted Setup The Namada Trusted Setup Ceremony was completed at 9am UTC on the 21st of December 2022, with no less than 2,510 contributions to the ceremony. The final parameters will be included in the upcoming Namada protocol releases and will be used in the mainnet circuits.
AnnouncementsAnnouncing Namada Public Testnets In preparation for mainnet, the implementation of the Namada protocol needs to be tested by as many network operators and other users as possible. To facilitate this, a series of public testnets will be launched that anyone can join.
AnnouncementsOpening nominations for the Namada RPGF Program Namada couldn't have come to be without prior pioneering research and implementation work in cryptography, distributed systems, cryptoeconomic protocol design, and public advocacy for open access to cryptography in a civil society. In order to express our gratitude, the Anoma Foundation has decided to allocate a large portion of the Namada genesis block to retroactive public goods funding. Part of this retroactive public goods funding will be allocated to specific projects and communities which
AnnouncementsAnnouncing the Namada Trusted Setup Namada's MASP circuit enables all asset types (fungible and non-fungible) to share one unified shielded set. To generate the final zk-SNARK parameters for the MASP circuit, the Anoma Foundation will be coordinating a multi-party computation ceremony.
IntroductionWhat is Namada? Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy. Namada interoperates with fast-finality chains via IBC and with Ethereum via a trustless two-way bridge.
IntroductionIntroducing Namada: Interchain Asset-agnostic Privacy Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy. Namada interoperates with fast-finality chains via IBC and with Ethereum via a trustless two-way bridge.