Dear community members.

Our transformative upgrade to Horizen 2.0 is full steam ahead since the community voted in favor of the ZenIP 42406, which proposes a roadmap for the upgrade of $ZEN and EON!

Security Best Practices

Please follow the steps below to ensure a smooth and safe experience during the 2.0 upgrade and keep your ZEN safe from scammers:

• Do NOT send funds to anyone claiming to be from Horizen.
  • We would never ask the community to send us ZEN or any other type of funds.
• Do NOT share your private keys with anyone.
  • We would never ask for private keys. If your private keys are not safe and secure, neither are your crypto assets.
• Do NOT install anything on your device that is not from the official sources.
• Do NOT give anybody remote access to your device.
  • We’d never ask you to install any software for remote access.
• Do NOT trust any DMs that give instructions for any type of Horizen airdrop.
  • Official team members would never DM you. We only communicate the procedure on our official public channels.
• The best way to get support is to open a ticket on the “open-a-ticket” channel on the Horizen Discord.
• Always double-check the social media handle and URL to make sure you are visiting the official channels.

Official Channels

The following channels are official and safe accounts to follow:

• Horizen X: https://x.com/horizenglobal
• Horizen Labs X: https://x.com/HorizenLabs
• Telegram: https://t.me/horizencommunity
• Discord: https://horizen.io/invite/discord 
• Blog: https://blog.horizen.io
• Discourse: https://horizen.discourse.group 
• Website: www.horizen.io 
• Github: https://github.com/HorizenOfficial
• Newsletter Signup: https://www.horizen.io/developer-newsletter/ 

What to do if you find a scam or have a question about an announcement?

Please report the group or account to our teams on Discord

Here is the ONLY official invitation link to the Discord: https://horizen.io/invite/discord 

You can also contact us on Telegram “horizen community”: https://t.me/horizencommunity 

Example of a scam attempt

As you can see in this scam attempt, users are being misled. They may think they’re on the official channel, but they’re not.

The only Horizen domain you should trust is horizen.io and blog.horizen.io.

Any additional words are domains bought by scammers. In this example: migrate-horizen.io.

The name of the scam Telegram group here is https://t.me/horizencommunitty Can you spot the scam?

In this scam example, there are two “t’s” in the word “community”.

You can also check when the group/user providing the information was created. Usually, scammers are very new accounts with little or no message history.