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Games open 23 Oct, the Creator Track starts today. Enter the arena! ↓
Horizen launching Season 2 of the Builder Ecosystem Fund 🚨⚡
100K+ ZEN builder season to ship private onchain finance
Up to $150K for RFP protocols & apps, plus smaller project funding opps
- Tech stack: Bring-your-own-privacy integration
- Vela (TEE) & zkVerify (ZK) preferred
- Hands-on DevRel privacy build support for select projects
- Funding to build, audit, and launch
In partnership with @thriveprotocol
Apply now 👇
Live intel drop tomorrow, Wed 19th @ 16:00 pm UTC | 12:00 pm EST🎙️
Three thesis-level topics on deck:
• $ZEN staking mechanics, infra & ZENDEX
• Dark-pool prediction markets w/ @layrslab
• LATAM builder acceleration w/ @crecimientoar
📍 Stage link: discord.com/events/3340851…
Pull up for the alpha and set your reminders ⚡
Horizen's @smilewithkhushi breaks down why most apps don't need a private chain, how app layer privacy lets settlement stay public while intent, position size, and identity stay confidential, and what that looks like in a familiar EVM environment.
The question was never whether you need a private blockchain. It's which parts of your app should never be public in the first place.
Check out the full breakdown↴
privacy doesn't have to be "ALL" or "NOTHING"
app-layer privacy gives developers control over which inputs, state & computation stay confidential (without making the entire application private).
from private trading logic to payments & business workflows, you can build it all
as an EVM developer, you shouldn't need a new stack just to build privacy into your app.
here's now @horizenglobal brings confidentiality closer to the tools you already use
Institutions across LATAM are moving onchain, and the questions they arrive with are practical ones about what stays confidential and what can be verified.
Glad to support LATAM Digital Assets Conf as a Silver Sponsor, August 20 and 21 in Buenos Aires.
Thanks for having us, @crecimientoar 🤝
HORIZEN - SPONSOR OF LATAM DIGITAL ASSETS CONF
@horizenglobal joins as a Silver Sponsor of LATAM Digital Assets Conf. Horizen is a privacy-focused blockchain platform that builds zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments, so applications can verify data without
Staking is live on Horizen Mainnet, and the question we keep getting is where the rewards actually come from.
The pool is not a fixed pile sitting in a contract, so here is how it works.
A 🧵...
If $ZEN is no longer a privacy coin, what role does it actually play?
Part 3 of Practical Privacy Has a Home looks at how $ZEN staking is being designed as the economic engine of the Horizen ecosystem.
A 🧵...
$ZEN staking rewards are now live on Horizen! ✨
The rewards pool is active and flowing to stakers.
If you staked ahead of today, you are already earning. If not, you can stake and join anytime.
Stake Now → staking.horizen.io
$ZEN staking has arrived! 🎉 Getting positioned is simple.
Stake your $ZEN now, and when the rewards pool opens Monday, July 27, you are already earning.
No advantage to timing it, and no penalty for staking early.
Stake Now → horizen.io/staking
Builder Week rolls on 🏗️
We talked through the builder case for Horizen: a privacy app ecosystem where you keep your @solidity_lang stack and add privacy only where your app needs it.
🤝 Revamped AI-friendly dev docs
✅ Real builders shipping
👀 What's next on the road to @EFDevcon
Full recap↴
If you can write @solidity_lang, you can build on Horizen 🏗️
The tooling you already use carries over, so there is nothing new to learn before you ship.
What changes is what you can offer your users → confidentiality built into your application at the layer where it matters, without leaving the EVM behind.
Take a look at the updated docs to see how it works↴
🔗 docs.horizen.io
Horizen Discord Community Call is this Thursday, July 23 at 16:00 UTC 🤝
We'll cover the latest across the ecosystem, where the privacy vision is headed, $ZEN staking, and the momentum building across projects.
@AmaanahLabs joins to talk privacy-first yield, then we open the floor for Q&A 🫡
Bring your questions. See you in Discord↴
discord.com/events/3340851…
Part 2 of the Practical Privacy Has a Home blog series is live 🌅
If you're building on Horizen, privacy lives at the application layer, which means you decide how it works.
Deploy familiar @solidity_lang, keep the wallets and liquidity your users already have, and add the confidentiality your app actually needs.
@HorizenLabs' Vela and @ZKVProtocol give you real primitives to reach for. The network stays open underneath.
Read it here↴
blog.horizen.io/practical-priv…
The Builder Case for Horizen 🏗️
Join us Tuesday, July 21 at 3:00 PM UTC as we go deeper on the developer experience: what it takes to add privacy to an onchain app, the newly revamped dev docs, and real perspective from the teams building on Horizen.
It's all part of Builder Week, so stay tuned for more.
Whether you're already building or just exploring, this one's for the developers.
Set a reminder below↴
🔗 x.com/i/spaces/1kKzD…
The recap is live.
We broke down the full X Space conversation on practical privacy: where Horizen started, why we went EVM-native, the builder case, privacy in the agentic economy, and the role of $ZEN.
Missed the Space? This covers everything. Read below↴
Privacy has always been part of Horizen's story.
Next week, a new chapter begins.
We're laying out where Horizen goes from here: what practical privacy really means for the onchain economy, and where $ZEN fits as this next phase takes shape.
More to come.
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