Zcash x Solana x Bitcoin x Evm all managed through one unified interface. that's what we're building.

similar example from the @DefiLlama swap ui why would you NOT choose to hide your IP. no difference in user experience. price remains the same.

Die-hard Zcash geeks know about EIP-152 , Project Alchemy and xCat. Time flies I’m surprised no one’s brought up these gems in an interview yet. Fascinating lore. When our lab first dove into building Zcash interop @koanvm, roughly two years ago now, we were completely blown away by the sheer volume and intensity of research, development, proposals, and wild experiments that the Zcash community had poured their hearts into. The energy and creativity behind it all were nothing short of inspiring.

Verifiable, provable blockchains and robust privacy protections stand as our strongest safeguard in a future overrun by boundless generative AI. It really is that simple.

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Community Update: #2 Upgrade. Bridging from UTXO chains (in this case Zcash testnet) has moved from payment-bearing inscriptions encoding instructions to a JSON-RPC based approach where users no longer need to run Koan's client software or even a webapp interfacing with it. Now it's as simple as making an HTTP POST request to a validator's RPC endpoint, which returns a deposit address and information to verify the address is under validator set management, plus validator information including signed attestations for verification and dispute purposes. Validators leverage mempool analysis to process transactions prior to confirmation, prioritizing user experience. Negotiating transactions with validators offchain and facilitating deposits to freshly generated pseudorandom addresses improves confidentiality - bridging transactions are indistinguishable from others. This positions Koan not just as Zcash to EVM bridging infrastructure but toward its greater vision as a developer-friendly primitive for permissionless interoperability between blockchains of different paradigms.

Community Update: #1 Time for a community update on what we've been working on at @koanvm After quietly building on Zcash infrastructure for around 2 years now, we're happy to finally share what Koan has been developing. Bidirectional UTXO-to-EVM bridging with working atomic swaps between Zcash, Bitcoin and Litecoin, currently integrated with 16+ EVM networks including HyperEVM. WALDO (our DevOps AI) handles node diagnostics and automated infrastructure management while our validators operate on Zcash testnet via heartbeat reporting. Next phase involves further development of our omnichain world state system for confidential asset accounting with succinct verification across all chains. We're building for a future where users control their privacy, giving everyone the choice between transparent and confidential transactions across all connected chains. Privacy when you want it, openness when you don't. Thanks for following along as we build toward this vision.

TIL is Dominic Tarr of Secure Scuttlebutt is Solar Punk (video is a bit old however) maybe things have changed youtu.be/27Iv8Jf4vZ0?si=D5qP…

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Really excited about this one. Koan is now on Citrea! We believe bringing interop and confidentialiy to bitcoin L2s will unlock major new usecases.