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Articles addressing the core aspects of Panther Protocol.

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Enabling compliance while preserving privacy: Panther’s compliance integrations explained

The Web3 ecosystem almost unanimously agrees on the benefit of users preserving their privacy while retaining permissionless access to distributed ledger technology. This shared understanding, however, tends to face an equally strong pushback (particularly from regulatory authorities) when we are reminded that privacy, without checks and balances, can become a

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Panther’s Shielded Pools: The cornerstone of the protocol

In an increasingly complex DeFi environment, preserving privacy while enabling regulatory compliance has become both a challenge and a necessity. This article will delve deeper into the linchpin of Panther Protocol’s architecture –Multi-Asset Shielded Pools (MASPs). Shielded Pools, as we call them in Panther, are sets of smart contracts

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Testnet Stage 0 Is Now Live! Here’s how to participate.

Panther community, As we announced this Friday, we’re rolling out Panther’s Testnet today, starting with Stage 0: ZK Batching. In this Stage, we’re launching the Panther Miner, a specialized miner designed to interact with a blockchain network. This testing stage (and activity in production) is directed towards

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Panther DAO Approves PIP-14: A Milestone in Decentralization

Dear Panther Community, We are thrilled to announce that the Panther DAO has officially approved PIP-14. This proposal formalizes the project’s Governance Framework and introduces a DAO Council, marking a significant stride in the project's decentralization journey. This landmark development follows extensive discussions on our community forum

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zSwap and DeFi Adaptors: Unlocking private DeFi usage

zSwap is the very first use case for Panther’s DeFi Adaptors and one of Panther’s v1 most important features. Here’s how it works.

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Panther’s road to decentralization vol. 2: Tales of the Panther DAO

Dear Panthers, In an impressive milestone, the Panther community has begun working on setting an independently-designed framework for self-governance. As several Panther community members have articulated, the current framework, detailed below, has served us well. It released Panther’s v0.5, LaunchDAO, and paved the way for many protocol-level changes

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Panther’s v0.5 decentralized launch is complete: a DAO-led effort

Panther's v0.5, also known as Advanced Staking, is now live!

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Panther’s v0.5 from A to Z: Full overview

New to Panther's v0.5? Here's everything you need to know about it, and a guide to use our latest release!

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Panther joins Leading Privacy Alliance

We’re proud to announce that Panther has joined the Leading Privacy Alliance, a future DAO that aims to unite privacy Web3 initiatives.

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What is Cross-chain DeFi? Is it possible?

We’re still in the earliest years of cross-chain DeFi. The siloed nature of blockchain technology and Web3 today is one of the major barriers preventing its widespread adoption. Different blockchains are significantly siloed, which you can tell by just looking at how Centralized Exchanges (CEXs) continue to be the

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Economic study of private DeFi: Dr. Anish Mohammed, Panther's CTO

This article rendition of Anish Mohammed's EthCC talk tackles the economic implications of achieving privacy & different strategies to enable it.

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From CBDCs to crypto privacy: Oliver Gale, Panther’s Co-Founder

CBDCs are far from how they were initially conceptualized, as revealed by Oliver Gale, founder of the first digital dollar project.

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DeFi privacy suite: why Panther is different (and necessary!)

What’s the difference between Panther and other projects in the Privacy Finance ecosystem? Let’s take a deep look.

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Panther announces its Polygon integration

Panther Protocol is announcing its Polygon integration, as an effort to host the protocol’s v1 in Polygon. Panther’s Multi-Asset Shielded Pools will be the first on the chain’s ecosystem and an industry milestone. In an ecosystem constantly reinventing itself and looking for its next breakthrough, Polygon has

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Reflections on Panther’s Roadmap: Co-Founder & CTO Anish Mohammed

We’ve recently published an updated version of Panther’s roadmap on our website. We, as a team, have been looking forward to this milestone throughout the previous few, very eventful months. Therefore, I believe it’s worthwhile sharing some reflections both on the road that led us here and

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Panther Protocol: The first private decentralized DeFi protocol launch

Blockchain history was made earlier this week. Thanks to more than 2,560 DAO votes in a Snapshot proposal, the Panther Protocol was voted to be launched in a private, decentralized manner. This constitutes the very first event of its kind, a feature that sets Panther a step towards its

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User types and use cases: who is Panther for and how can they use it?

Through the outstanding results of our Public Sale (sold out in 90 mins!) and the explosive growth of our community, as well as the registrations for our upcoming decentralized private launch, you have all demonstrated you believe in the importance of privacy by default in DeFi. It’s as if

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Institutional DeFi: the next big thing

Does the phrase “institutional investors are coming, HODL!!!” ring a bell for you? If it does, you might have been in the crypto market for longer than many can claim, including some prominent names in the space. However, if it doesn’t, it might be about time that you learn

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Panther's Multi-Asset Shielded Pools: Enabling privacy for all assets

It’s about time we sit down and talk about shielded pools. You see, as we have discussed in the past, current L1 blockchains are far from perfect. As much as one hates to be intolerant of imperfections (we love you all the same, Bitcoin and Ethereum!), there IS something

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Privacy in the age of surveillance: something worth fighting for?

As anthropologist Keith Laidler showcases in his book Surveillance Unlimited, espionage and surveillance are as old as civilization itself. Throughout History, rulers have pursued privileged information on their enemies and citizens to gain the upper hand in war and politics and stay in power for longer. In Ancient Rome, powerful

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The economics of privacy: economic effects of total transparency

In the past, we’ve written extensively about the importance of privacy in decentralized networks. We’ve gone as far as to draw Orwellian and theological parallelisms between the way institutions, malicious actors and oppressive governments (terms that are not necessarily mutually exclusive) can surveil powerless users.   But, has it

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zkSNARKs through the lens of the cypherpunks

All cypherpunks have to start somewhere. As a crypto community member, you likely went through the learning curve most of us did: You heard about cryptocurrencies in the middle of a Bitcoin bull run. You then got your first few shares of a coin to make some profits… only to

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Interoperable Privacy — Building privacy bridges to all of DeFi

There are a couple of facts that not even Ethereum’s sternest (and we know some!) critics would deny: One is that Ethereum is currently the king of DeFi. Whether you are a fan of the current fee spikes, burning system and the network’s culture or not, you would

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Minting and burning zAssets — a (semi) technical deep dive

It’s 2021 and, by now, we all take decentralized finance for granted. We have platforms like Uniswap, where (if they wish to and liquidity allows it) a user can exchange an exotic token for almost any other without any intermediaries. And, because of the great speed of developments, most

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The Layman’s guide for Privacy Enhancing Technologies

A quick journey through the history of privacy, its applications on the current blockchain ecosystem and why DeFi needs to adopt privacy to continue growing.