Mina

Introduction

Mina also known as Mina Protocol was founded in 2017 by Evan Shapiro and Izaac Meckler. It has its headquarter in San Francisco, California.

Mina is building a privacy-preserving gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve. They are the world’s lightest blockchain, powered by participants. Using zero knowledge technology, Mina is creating the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve. The Mina blockchain remains ~22kb, enabling users to quickly and directly access the current state from their smartphone and other blockchains.

Mina is now stewarded by the Mina Foundation, growing its community and ecosystem worldwide. Several testnets have been conducted, and the network has launched successfully on mainnet as of March 2021. Here, developers build powerful zkApps, or decentralized apps based on zero knowledge, so their users can take advantage of dapps without compromising their privacy or security.

There is currently work being done to establish a bridge between Mina and Ethereum, and progress made on this can also go towards building trustless bridges between different chains. This will result in the ability for dapps on other chains to take advantage of the privacy-preserving data verification, efficient proofs of large computations and secure login features of Mina’s zkApps.

Mission

To create a vibrant decentralized network and open programmable currency—so we can all participate, build, exchange and thrive.

Why Mina?

Mina is the first project leveraging recursive zero knowledge proofs to enable the world’s lightest, most accessible blockchain.

Funding

Below, are the details of the different rounds of funding received by Mina.

Acquisitions

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