Week in Mina News #4
June 23, 2024 - Stay Updated with the Latest from Mina: Protocol Updates, Developer News, and Community Highlights
This newsletter helps the Mina community stay updated on the latest protocol changes, developer news, ecosystem developments, community activities, and key metrics. If you have news to share in this newsletter, please reach out to us here. Better together! - Astromina Team
⚙️ Core Protocol
Updates
CORE Program
Berkeley Testnet Decommissioned
Berkeley testnet has been decommissioned on 17 June 2024. Community members should have migrated to Mina Protocol Devnet.
🖼️ Ecosystem News
Mina X Mirae Asset Financial Group
Mina Foundation and Mirae Asset Financial Group have joined forces to integrate Mina’s zero knowledge tech with Mirae’s tokenized securities platform. Mirae Asset Financial Group is a global investment company which has an AUM worldwide of approximately $600 billion.
Details are here.
Pallad 0.5 - Open Beta is Live
Pallad is officially in Open Beta, and that means you can download it from the Chrome Web Store and install it in your browser.
For more detailed information, look out this blog post.
Governance Updates
No governance updates were provided this week.
Growth Programs
Mina Navigators Season 2 Update
First Mina Navigators Season 2 grantees announced:
zkNoid (Lottery Game)
KaffelMahmoud (Developer Tooling)
0xStruct (Developer Tooling)
You can find all Mina Navigators Proposals here.
⭐ Ecosystem Highlights
Zeko
Zeko Updates
No Zeko updates were provided this week.
Zeko Ecosystem
ZekoBoost Developer Contest Winners
ZKON (@zkon_network) - Finance
ZkNoid (@ZkNoid) - Gaming
Pallad (@pallad_) - Internet
Swan Chain (@swan_chain) - AI
Details here.
Protokit
Protokit Updates
No Protokit updates were provided this week.
Protokit Ecosystem
No Protokit ecosystem updates were provided this week.
Other / Miscellaneous
ZkNoid Challenge: TileVille
The TileVille 3-day challenge started on June 21 at 12:00 PM UTC and will end on June 24 at 12:00 PM UTC. The top five participants will share a prize pool of 200 USD in MINA tokens.
For more details, visit the ZkNoid Challenge.
📌 Mina Community Bulletin Board
This section features posts from the community and projects. You can submit yours here.
X Posts
Post by @ThisisVanshika: https://x.com/ThisisVanshika/status/1803441118127989129
🎟️ Events
Upcoming Events
No upcoming events were provided this week.
Last Week’s Events
Workshop: Introduction to Mina Protocol & o1js
On June 16, during Encode Club's ZK Bootcamp, Deniz Bas, a Mina Community Developer, delivered an insightful workshop titled "Introduction to Mina Protocol & o1js." This session provided a comprehensive overview of the Mina Protocol, zero-knowledge proofs, and ZK apps development using the o1js TypeScript library.
Panel Recap: ZK Circuits for Proof of Liabilities
Phil Kelly from @o1_labs and CEO @FormallyJon discuss a proof of concept using O1JS for proof of liabilities with ZK circuits, enhancing privacy and scalability with off-chain compute.
Check out a snippet from their panel conversation at Consensus.
First zkApp ID-Mask Team & Will Cove X Space
ID-Mask is the first zkApp live on Mina mainnet, enabling the creation of proofs to verify identity statements without disclosing personal information.
🔊Listen to the recent conversation between idMask developer Raidas and Mina Protocol Head Of Community Will Cove in this X Space.
Japanese Workshop by Sebastien and Akindo
New technical workshop in Japanese by @SebastienGllmt and @akindo_io is now available for Mina developers. Sebastien covers topics like Mina introduction, ZKPs, Mina’s TypeScript framework for zkApps, o1js, ProtoKit, and use cases for ZKPs.
Watch Full record is here.
ZKON & idMask & MinaCrypto Com AMA
ZKON and idMask teams met at the Mina Crypto Com X Space AMA.
🔊 Listen here.
💼 Open Jobs
No new job listings from the community this week. If you have any job updates or offers, please share them here.
👓 Statistics and Metrics
Key Metrics from Last Week:
Total Amount Transferred (daily average): 10.26M MINA
Unique Snark Workers (daily average): 8
Snarks Included (daily average): 7,661
Transactions (daily average): 7,016
CryptoMiso Commit Stats: Mina secured 2nd place over the past 6 months with 2282 commits and 98 contributors. Last week alone, there were 25 new commits. More details here.