ChainCatcher news, according to Chainwire, the lightweight privacy layer COTI announced a partnership with the on-chain funding solution Gitcoin to launch a $500,000 grant program. The program aims to accelerate the development of privacy solutions to support the broader web3 ecosystem.This collaboration will enable COTI to leverage Gitcoin's grant management tools and services to onboard a group of experienced web3 developers and privacy projects into COTI's privacy ecosystem. Since 2017, Gitcoin has distributed over $60 million to developers of thousands of projects.

ChainCatcher message, the privacy project Nym posted on X platform stating that its CEO @harryhalpin's X account has been hacked. Please do not trust the false airdrop information it publishes and do not interact with suspicious links.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana ecosystem privacy project [Light Protocol](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Light Protocol?k=NDI2NA==) has announced the launch of version 3, which is referred to as "Private Solana Programs" (PSP). Developers can build fast privacy payments, encrypted order books, and public chain games with privacy states on Solana. Light v3 allows developers to move private program logic to the client, and then Solana verifies zkSNARKs to prove the correctness of state transitions computed by the client without revealing the transitions themselves. Currently, the Light Protocol testnet is live, and the Solana mainnet will be launched in the coming months. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, Solana ecosystem privacy project Light Protocol has completed a $4.5 million seed round financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Solana Ventures, Hypersphere, dao5, Asymmetric, Balaji Srinivasan, Algod, The Crypto Dog, and others.It is reported that Light Protocol will soon launch Light V3, claiming that this version will achieve ultra-efficient privacy and general ZK on Solana. (source link)