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Horizen Builder Fund Season 2 — Core App RFPs

Horizen Acceleration Season: Six Weeks to Build on Vela

Some products cannot exist on public blockchains. The logic is too sensitive, the data too valuable, and the cost of putting either in the open is higher than anything full transparency returns. Those are exactly the products we want built. Horizen and Crecimiento are running the Horizen Acceleration Season, a six week online program for startups building on Vela, Horizen's confidential coprocessor. We are selecting a small cohort from anywhere in the world to be among the first teams working...

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Crecimiento
Horizen

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Amaanah Labs is Building on Horizen

Amaanah Labs is developing its protocol on Horizen, joining a growing group of teams building financial applications where confidentiality is a practical requirement rather than an afterthought. Amaanah describes its work as institutional-grade, privacy-preserving yield infrastructure for digital assets. Its flagship product, the Amaanah Vault, is designed to let users and firms put capital to work while keeping portfolio strategies and positions confidential, using confidential execution and...

Privacy
Blockchain
Horizen

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如何在 Horizen 主网上质押 ZEN

ZEN 质押已开放。奖励分发将于 7 月 27 日（周一）开始，现在就可以质押。

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Horizen
Staking

A Stake in Practical Privacy

How ZEN staking becomes the economic engine of the ecosystem

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Staking
Zen

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How to Stake ZEN on Horizen Mainnet

ZEN Staking is Open. Stake Now before Reward Distribution Begins on Monday, July 27.

Privacy
Horizen
Staking

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Practical Privacy Has a Home -- Part 2

The Builder Case: EVM-native, privacy-architecture neutral Horizen is a privacy-first ecosystem built on Base, designed for private applications, confidential financial activity, and real economic use. Unlike other blockchain privacy projects, Horizen is EVM-native, which means developers can build with familiar tools and users can connect with the wallets and assets they already hold. The chain itself stays open and verifiable. Privacy lives at the application layer, where builders can desig...

Privacy
Horizen
Building

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Practical Privacy Has a Home: X Space Recap

This week we hosted an X Space to talk through the ideas behind Part 1 of Practical Privacy Has a Home. For anyone who could not join live, here is a recap of the conversation. The recording is available to listen back. Where Horizen started, and where it is now Rolf opened by framing privacy through ...

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Privacy

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Practical Privacy Has a Home -- Part 1

Privacy has always been part of Horizen’s story. Today, that story takes a more practical turn, moving privacy from a thesis into the modern onchain economy in terms people can actually use.

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PureFi Brings Onchain Compliance Tooling to Horizen

Horizen is teaming up with PureFi to bring practical compliance tooling to builders across the ecosystem. PureFi's AML and KYC toolkit is now available on the Horizen chain, giving developers a way to add compliance controls to their applications without giving up the confidentiality their users expect. It's a natural fit. Horizen exists to make privacy practical, auditable, and compatible with real users. PureFi brings the compliance layer that helps private onchain activity stay within clea...