ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Mina Protocol announced yesterday that its fungible token standard has completed a security audit and is officially released. This standard allows developers to create and manage custom tokens on Mina, opening up new possibilities for applications such as real-world assets (RWA), on-chain gaming, and decentralized finance (DeFi). The standard has been reviewed by the security auditing company Veridise. The main features of the Mina fungible token standard include custom token creation, unique identifiers, supply control, transfer capabilities, and zkApp integration.

ChainCatcher news, the zero-knowledge proof public chain Mina Protocol announced a partnership with the modular blockchain project Celestia. The Mina ecosystem will integrate Celestia's modular decentralized data availability (DA) solution.It is reported that the integration project is led by the zk-SNARKs pioneer team Geometry Research, with technical support from o1Labs.In addition, by introducing Celestia's DA solution, Mina's zkApps will gain significant capability enhancements, especially in handling large-scale off-chain data, where the throughput of zkApps will see further improvements. This collaboration coincides with Mina's upcoming mainnet upgrade, which will bring a more user-friendly zkApp programming model, expected to significantly increase developer activity and the number of products in the Mina ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, the lightweight blockchain protocol Mina Protocol has announced the launch of the zkApp grant program Mina Navigators. This program will allocate 6 million MINA tokens in grants from October 2023 to April 2024, encouraging ZK developers to participate in setting new standards, challenging builders to create, iterate on the Mina ecosystem, and contribute to it.The Mina Navigators program will be divided into three phases: Hackathon (October 9 to November 10), Learn-to-earn Challenge (November 2023 to April 2024), and Final Contribution Grants (April 30, 2024).

ChainCatcher news, the lightweight blockchain Mina has launched the Mina Incentive Testnet Testworld Mission 2.0, aimed at ensuring that SnarkyJS and zkApp-related code run as planned, providing users, zkApp developers, and validators with the opportunity to test the Mina blockchain before the hard fork.It is reported that the testnet will take 4 different paths, namely: zkApp end-to-end (E2E) testing, external security audits, protocol and performance testing, and hard fork preparation. Currently, zkApp end-to-end testing has been completed, while external security audits, protocol and performance testing are ongoing. Auditors and node operators have been confirmed, and they will be online and running for about 2 months soon, with hard fork preparation starting shortly. (Source link)

Chain Catcher news, the Web3 privacy protection protocol Manta Network has launched a new introduction website for its development team p0xeidon labs at p0xeidon.xyz, and announced the establishment of the research project Poseidon VM.As the first EVM-compatible zkApp-friendly virtual machine, Poseidon VM enables zkApps to have privacy, scalability, and provability, while users will also benefit from efficient zkApp transactions, which can be 2000 times cheaper compared to other Layer2 solutions.Unlike the simpler designs of Aleo and Mina, Poseidon VM provides zkApp developers with layered programming abstractions, including the EVM tools that DApp developers are most familiar with and love. Poseidon VM offers a rich set of system-level zk-Precompiles and also allows DApp developers to directly use Solidity to code zkApps.It is reported that p0xeidon labs is a team composed of top developers from around the world, dedicated to building Web3 privacy, believing that privacy is a fundamental right, and striving to create and deploy tools to accelerate the global adoption of privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.The projects the team is building include the plug-and-play privacy layer parachain Manta Network in the Polkadot network, and the canary network Calamari Network on Kusama. Additionally, the team stated that Manta will announce a trusted setup ceremony in the coming days, which is also key to the privacy payment protocol MantaPay implemented through zero-knowledge proofs. (Source link)

Chain Catcher news, the lightweight blockchain Mina has officially launched the second phase of the zkApps Builders Program (ZBP) to support developers who want to build zkApp-related projects.It is reported that the zkApps Builders Program lasts for 11 weeks and will gather developers from different backgrounds to learn zero-knowledge programming and build zero-knowledge smart contracts (zkApp) on the Mina protocol. The selected 30 developers will receive hands-on technical support and have the opportunity for direct dialogue with cryptographers, developers, and community leaders from O(1) Labs. (source link)