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Introducing .horizen: A Shared Naming Layer for Builders

Privacy only works when it works in the real world. Horizen is the first ecosystem built to make privacy practical, regulatory compatible, and usable at the application level. Builders, contributors, and institutions need spaces to coordinate, signal alignment, and make activity visible without exposing sensitive operational details. That is exactly what .horizen delivers. In collaboration with Unstoppable Domains, we’re launching .horizen, a Web3 top level domain for projects, applications, ...

Horizen x Thrive Project Showcase: Gatta

Loyalty programs were designed to create sustainable relationships between brands and users. In practice, many have devolved into fragmented point systems, low signal engagement, and short term incentive loops. In Web3, these issues are amplified. Airdrops are routinely captured by bots and disposable wallets, activity is inflated without retention, and genuine users are buried in noise. The result is clear engagement without loyalty, and incentives that fail to translate into trust or long t...

Horizen x Thrive Project Showcase: ZENDEX

Every day, millions of dollars are silently extracted from DeFi traders. Not through hacks or exploits, but through something far more insidious: the public mempool. MEV bots, front-runners, and sandwich attacks have turned transparency into a tax on every trade. But what if there was a way to trade in silence? The Horizen x Thrive Builder Funding Program is now in full swing. With 16 approved projects in the pipeline and more under evaluation, we're launching a Project Showcase to give the c...

Horizen 2025 Year in Review

The Year Horizen Relaunched for the New Era of Privacy

• Horizen
• Privacy

Build Smarter dApps with Real-Time Data on Horizen

Horizen is integrating Goldsky, Web3’s real-time data platform, to provide high-performance blockchain indexing, instant subgraphs, and customizable data streaming pipelines. This integration gives developers the tools to build powerful dApps faster, with richer data and greater responsiveness on Horizen. Goldsky streams live blockchain data directly into applications, enabling advanced analytics, automated workflows, and interactive experiences across Horizen’s privacy-first ecosystem. Horiz...

Welcome to Privacy on Base

A new chapter for onchain privacy begins today. Horizen has officially launched its mainnet on Base, bringing a practical and compliance-friendly path to private onchain activity - one that fits seamlessly into the Ethereum environment millions already use. This launch completes our transition from an isolated proof-of-work chain to a fully EVM-native chain that settles to Ethereum. For everyday users, this shift means faster transactions, lower fees, and access to tools and apps that feel fa...

The Future of Institutional Infrastructure: Horizen and Base

Previous analyses have outlined the core on-chain challenges institutions face: the “transparency problem” of public blockchains and the “Institutional Blockchain Trilemma,” which forces a compromise between interoperability, privacy, and liquidity. The practical solution lies in Horizen, a Layer 3 built on Base. Together, they provide the access and protection institutions require without forcing compromises. The power of this integration lies in its architecture. Horizen is not a siloed L1 ...

Privacy Meets Base: Introducing the World’s Privacy Layer

Since its founding, Horizen has always been a project shaped by the same vision: empowering developers, institutions, and users to transact and build in ways that respect privacy while maintaining trust and regulatory compliance. When Horizen launched in 2017, it entered the world as one of the first ZK-powered privacy coins. Over the years, as the industry matured, so did we. We moved from building a private asset to building private-preserving infrastructure; from an isolated chain to inter...

Bringing Real-Time Price Data to Privacy-Preserving DeFi

Horizen is teaming up with Stork to bring ultra-fast, decentralized price feeds to the Horizen ecosystem. This collaboration strengthens the ability of developers and institutions to build applications that require both real-time data and regulatory-compliant privacy. With support for real-world assets such as equities, commodities, and FX, as well as prediction market feeds from Kalshi and Polymarket, this integration expands the range of on-chain opportunities.Enabling High-Speed, Reliable ...

Horizen Partners with Caldera to Launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base

Horizen has teamed up with Caldera to bring its privacy-first blockchain ecosystem on Base, combining proven rollup performance with Horizen’s mission to make privacy practical, auditable, and scalable for today's digital world. Developers can now build fast, reliable applications while tapping into Base’s expanding liquidity network. Testnet is live and ready to explore.Infrastructure for the Next Era of PrivacyThe new Horizen chain gives developers the tools to build scalable, privacy-...

Build Smarter dApps with Real-Time Data on Horizen

Horizen is integrating Goldsky, Web3’s real-time data platform, to provide high-performance blockchain indexing, instant subgraphs, and customizable data streaming pipelines. This integration gives developers the tools to build powerful dApps faster, with richer data and greater responsiveness on Horizen. Goldsky streams live blockchain data directly into applications, enabling advanced analytics, automated workflows, and interactive experiences across Horizen’s privacy-first ecosystem. Horiz...

Welcome to Privacy on Base

A new chapter for onchain privacy begins today. Horizen has officially launched its mainnet on Base, bringing a practical and compliance-friendly path to private onchain activity - one that fits seamlessly into the Ethereum environment millions already use. This launch completes our transition from an isolated proof-of-work chain to a fully EVM-native chain that settles to Ethereum. For everyday users, this shift means faster transactions, lower fees, and access to tools and apps that feel fa...

ZenIP 42409: ZenIP 42407 Addendum, Horizen 2.0 Tokenomics Proposal

There is a new ZenIP Proposal that recently passed, ZenIP 42409, which is an Addendum to ZenIP 42407: Horizen Tokenomics Proposal. The timeline for the vote on ZenIP 42409 was that voting opened on Monday, April 21st, 2025, at 12pm EST, and closed on Thursday, April 24th, 2025, at 12pm EST. With a quorum of 142% and 99.39% (1.1M $ZEN) of the votes FOR, the proposal passed! The full results of the vote can be found on Snapshot here. Let’s review this ZenIP proposal below, and we’ll also remind...

How to Stake ZEN on Horizen Mainnet

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

• Privacy
• Horizen
• Staking

Trade With Proof, Not Trust: How Obscura Is Making Reputation Private and Verifiable

Horizen Ecosystem Builder Spotlight: Obscura

• Privacy
• Verification
• Zk

$ZEN Staking is Back on Horizen

The Horizen DAO voted to approve a new $ZEN staking program on Horizen, aligning token holders with long-term ecosystem growth and participation.

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• Staking
• Horizen