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The Namada Keychain is a browser extension for the Shielded Ecosystem used for generating, viewing, and managing Namada accounts, signing transactions, and connecting to web applications.

Namada’s role is to solve the need for data protection–today–through a blockchain and transaction-centric architecture. Namada plays a crucial role in the Anoma ecosystem, and Namada lays the foundation for the Anoma community.

The Shielded Ecosystem is a mission-driven collaboration between mutually aligned projects, ecosystems, communities, organizations, and initiatives. Join and help expand the frontiers of data protection as a public good.

Shielding Summit was one of the truly unmissable events for 2024. Held on a peaceful island in the middle of Brussels’s Bois de la Cambre park, it was the place to be for privacy and data protection advocates escaping the hustle and bustle of EthCC.

This article covers the community genesis process, the Anoma Foundation’s proposed set of allocations, the protocol’s cryptoeconomic and governance mechanisms (and how they relate to the genesis parameters), and the purpose of NAM – Namada’s native token.

The Anoma Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Namada Mainnet candidate release has just been published and is ready for community review.  Join the discussion on the Namada forum.

The Namada application was officially approved for public Ledger release, allowing holders to store their assets with a market-leading hardware wallet. We are happy to announce that Ledger is now integrated with the Namada network and available to use for the broader public.The application first became available for installation via Ledger’s developer mode on the 29th of January, 2024. Now, any user can access their NAM from Ledger by installing the Namada application via the App Catalog. The a

Information about the structure of the Namada Shielded Expedition, the list of WANTED asteroids, the ROIDs point system, Nebb rankings, and the NAM prizes for the winners.

The Namada Shielded Expedition is a massively multiplayer role-playing incentivized testnet – and the final expedition for the shielded community to battle-test the protocol before mainnet.

Ahead of anything further, I want to thank all Community Builders (CBs) for being a part of the first Community Builders RPGF round. An impressive collective effort was made by those who stayed on. I'm personally very pleased with both the results and the final crop of those who remain a part of the program, in addition to what the results show us, which will be what we discuss here. The final group currently comprising the program ended up being some 172 candidates offering varying levels of c

Namada wouldn’t exist without the R&D of cryptographic primitives including zero-knowledge proofs, tooling, learning resources, and other contributions from the communities across the Zcash, Rust, ZKP, interchain, and public goods funding ecosystems.

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

In alignment with its overarching mission to advance data protection, Namada is pleased to announce its first-ever Community Builders Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RPGF) Round.

The freedom to reveal is for everyone.

Namada uses the CometBFT consensus engine, which allows for the possibility of integrating the interchain-blockchain-communication (IBC) system.

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.

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 data protection. Shielded Swaps: A Peek into DeFi’s Future Once Namada launches, it aims to introduce the Shielded Swaps featu

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:

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?

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.

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

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.

To maximize on-chain data protection and provide the strongest guarantees to users, shielded set size is all that matters.

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.

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.

Zcash pioneered both the applied political philosophy and the cryptographic substrate required for freedom- and shielded payments. Without their work, neither the ZK ecosystem nor the ongoing dialogue about the public benefit of shielded 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 consciousnes

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.

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.

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.

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?).

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.

Namada provides the largest unified shielded set in the multichain, complementing other chains by retrofitting data protection with shielded actions.

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.

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.

The MASP & CC implement multi-asset functionality and programmable asset-conversions. This article explains how the cryptography works and what other applications can be built with the circuits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Anoma Foundation allocates a large portion of the Namada genesis blog to retroactive public goods funding.

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.

Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic data protection. Namada interoperates with fast-finality chains via IBC and with Ethereum via a trustless two-way bridge.

Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 for multichain asset-agnostic data protection. Namada interoperates with fast-finality chains via IBC and with Ethereum via a trustless two-way bridge.