@mert

ceo @helius — Solana RPCs & APIs: https://xitter.cf/t.co/J2To2MzHwd — bare-knuckle typist

Joined September 2020
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if youre on Solana and haven't thought about @HeliusPrivacy, I humbly guarantee you will fall behind your competitors and your users' wants ZK at Solana scale is a hell of a challenge, but we've done it and it will change Solana permanently get in touch
bullish @HeliusPrivacy look into the tech and implementation if you haven't yet. fully onchain, retail and enterprise ready zolana
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NU7 is finally activating on Zcash! Zakura 1.7.0 activates it on height 3543405, which is the evening of November 5 for us Americans. Blocks will occur three times faster in Zcash. Other changes like NSM funding and retiring the Sprout pool appear in this upgrade as well.
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Friday, I record with @zkDragon and @ebfull for technical coverage of the Zcash roadmap What would you like to know?
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Solana is now 95% faster trillions
biggest upgrade in solana history today
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biggest upgrade in solana history today
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decided id watch tv for first time in a decade and Bloomberg still shows litecoin and xrp on their shortlist lmao $10,000
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.@TheStalwart pls fix
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Hylo closed a $1M strategic funding round led by @SolanaVentures with participation from @colosseum. This marks Solana Ventures' 2nd and Colosseum's 3rd investment in Hylo, reflecting their continued conviction in our vision to scale leverage and yield infrastructure on Solana.
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NEAR HACKATHON is coming. Runs 1-14 November, $250K+ in prizes, just ship a public repo & demo by the end of the 2 weeks. I'm judging alongside @mert @hosseeb @avichal @kain @eddylazzarin & @cyntro_py. Cross-chain markets and confidential AI are NEAR.
NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes. No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC. Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more. Full details:
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Mert will also judge the upcoming NEAR Hackathon, alongside @ilblackdragon and builders and investors from a16z crypto, Electric Capital, Dragonfly, and more. Build cross-chain markets and agentic apps on NEAR, with confidentiality as a core primitive. Submissions open November 1st to 14th.
Helius CEO @mert has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, NEAR Foundation’s governing body. An early NEAR Intents user and leading voice on privacy, Mert brings an operator’s view to how NEAR builds and grows. “For crypto to win, we need connected, unstoppable liquidity at planetary scale. A market of markets. Neither Solana, Zcash, or Bitcoin can win on their own, we must work together. And NEAR is how." near.org/blog/mert-mumtaz-jo…
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NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes. No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC. Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more. Full details:
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"superteam is basically the fundamental secret weapon of @solana that no other ecosystem has been able to replicate" - @mert superteam.
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you will make much more money figuring out what may go right rather than what may go wrong the former requires a willingness to look foolish, which is why most people are afraid of it
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mert retweeted
Know your rights. @solana is becoming the home of tokenized stocks, and Orb is built to help you navigate them. One stock can have many versions. See what each one represents, what rights it gives you, and how redemption works.
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Scaling Zcash to Visa-level throughput requires a next-generation networking stack. We're excited to share P2Pv2, which you can try out today in Zakura! zakura.com/engineering/p2pv2…
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One of Mert's favorite use cases for Zcash is private donations to Roman Storm, where he says the majority of contributions on Storm's donation website are made in $ZEC “One of my favorite use cases that we were talking about, now that we're talking about Satoshi, is Roman Storm” “If you look at his donations on his donation website, the majority are in Zcash” “That's a perfect use case of private money, which is politically sensitive donations to people who are fighting against the actual criminals who are the ones banning open source code” “That's a particularly favorite use case of mine” w/ @mert
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Not only do you get quantum unlinkability today, but it’s also the secret for scalable payments in tachyon! This is how all “payment request” flows will work too So it’s already in your wallets well before tachyon arrive
How we’re making Zcash quantum unlinkable through the use of one-time IVKs! In this video, I talk about how sharing your shielded address opens you up to a specific quantum attack, and how we solved this linkage for a common feature you probably exposed yourself to already.
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mert retweeted
Preconfs are now live for all paid plans Use preconfSubscribe to stream the earliest onchain signals and see Solana transactions before they're shredded We also added 4 new filters: source (Helius/BAM), signer (include/exclude), signatures, and instructions Have fun
NEW: Preconfirmations See transactions the moment a validator commits to executing them That's 5-50 milliseconds BEFORE transactions are turned into shreds, and the earliest a tx can be observed on Solana All delivered via one new WebSocket subscription: preconfSubscribe
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