Screenshot 2025-01-16 at 3.08.27 a.m. Mina is the world’s lightest ZK blockchain. It enables everything from KYC verification to onchain gaming scaling by leveraging zk tech to create a private, provable web. 👀 My my previous article covered Mina’s basics, zkApps, and how to contribute to the ecosystem. In this article, we’ll explore Mina’s tooling and its potential to change the world and build the next generation of zk applications. Mina’s Tooling: Kimchi + Pickles, O1js and Protokit Kimchi - modular, general-purpose, PLONK-inspired zk-proof system

˚. ✦.˳·˖✶ ⋆. Imagine a world where privacy and scalability are no longer a trade-off with Mina Protocol. We'll explore Mina's Zero-Knowledge Applications (zkApps) and Grant Program projects, reaching for the north star of privacy-powered interwebs. Discover how Mina and its ecosystem of zkApps, including SnarkyJS and Mina Identity, are shaping a secure and user-centric digital landscape. ˚. ✦.˳·˖✶ ⋆. Mina is a world’s lightest zero knowledge (ZK) blockchain for proving anything from KYC/Identity to scaling onchain gaming.

About me My name is Ania Shestakova and I am a technical creator and DevRel in the web3 space. With background in arts and academia/education, design and innovation. Since 2020 I’ve been an active contributor to the ETH ecosystem. Building at ETHGlobal hackathons for 6 months straight, learning dApp development, and adapting myself and my skillset to the industry standards by designing products, such as wallets, NFTs, and DAOs. I went from passionate hacker, creative and designer exploring the stack and ecosystem to Developer Relations, and in 2022 launched framework for devs to build easier and better dApps. In 2024 I finished Developer Relations Uni devreluni.com. Joined SheFi community, and started writing more.

=nil;'s zkSharding the Holy Grail in the age-old struggle of Scaling Ethereum. This introductory blog post was directly inspired by zkSharding Manifesto, peer behind the curtain and dive into the thinking process of =nil;'s Core Development Team, and =nil;'s innovative approach on the age-old struggle of Scaling Ethereum. TL;DR The beauty of zkSharding lies in its ability to simplify the complex. At its core, zkSharding combines zkRollups with Sharding, providing a scalable, and secure L2 solution. Potentially appliable to L3 and L4 by ensuring Horizontal Scaling without sacrificing the advantages of a unified execution layer. Direct Ethereum L1 Data Access, and cut costs on auditing by introducing Type-1 zkLLVM compiled with zkLLVM, essentially production-grade EVM without manual circuit reimplementation. =nil;’s zkSharding significantly minimizes data, security, and liquidity fragmentation by design creating a unified execution environment.

Screenshot 2024-07-15 at 4.04.12 p.m. Community is immunity: In my last few years on my DevRel journey, I felt isolated, which is counterintuitive as DevRels are a backbone of any community. But I felt like I couldn’t find organizations or individuals who were sharing my ideas. I felt like there is a glass wall between me, and DevRel community due to my geo location, nationality, and past experiences. DevRelUni Cohort 5 provided me with a community of people who understand, willing to explore, empathetic, driven, loving souls who are looking for the same answers and don't particularly fit into the mold either. We're on the same hunt for the best sustainable practices of how to work together. DevRelUni folks bring the vibes. Learning curve: Assignments are spot on and are designed to get your head thinking. Very much focused on taking ownership of research, crafting your own strategy. And it helped me to rethink my strategy in DevRel. Again, bouncing off ideas from others and relying on other people’s strengths was something exciting, and best way for me to learn fast.

Screenshot 2024-07-16 at 2.44.22 p.m. Web3 builders have been working on reaching internet-level scale and bringing decentralized computing to the world for 10 years, facing criticism that "chains do not scale" as early as Bitcoin in 2013. We need a multi-chain, trustless solution that doesn’t fracture our ecosystems, applications, or our ability to work together, bringing scalable and decentralized computing to the world. We need Superchain The Superchain is a horizontally scalable network of chains that share security, a communication layer, and an open-source development stack. It is a permissionless system for deploying new chains to a shared network.

Today I had a chat with an icon and a legend, Nader Dabit! OG, DevRel, software engineer, author, and teacher, fluently speaking tech: cloud, web, AI, blockchain, and cross-platform mobile application development. He's done it all: FAANG, DAOs, Consulting, AI, Blockchain, Investing. Overall, just a badass human with a kind soul! Screenshot 2024-07-06 at 12.15.10 a.m. He started working in software 12 years ago.