Horizen News

Horizen open Season 2 of the Builder Ecosystem Fund ⚡️🏴‍☠️ 100K+ ZEN / up to $150K per team to stop leaking user state onchain & ship private DeFi on Base. • RFPs: Private Agentic Vaults & Borrow-Lend • Stack: Vela (TEE) & zkVerify (ZK) preferred • Perks: Direct DevRel support and audit/launch funding In partnership with Thrive Protocol. Lock in your grant here: https://tally.so/r/MeQGxl

Staking is Live! First reward cycle starts July 27. Have your $ZEN in the pool ahead of time so you're ready when distribution goes live Stake → http://horizen.io/staking

The next chapter of Horizen is here Tune in our X Space tomorrow Thursday, 16 July 2026 at 16:00 UTC as we unpack what changes, why confidential execution becomes essential for onchain apps, and where the ecosystem is headed. https://x.com/horizenglobal/status/2077148413515411748?s=20

Crypto projects have historically shared very little about how they operate behind the scenes the B-2 Token Transparency Framework creates a standard way for mature crypto projects to disclose this information. Horizen just completed the B-2 Token Transparency Framework, opening the books on how the protocol operates while keeping user privacy intact. https://x.com/horizenglobal/status/2072306547628429474?s=20

What if you could move assets across chains without broadcasting your wallet trail to the entire internet? Wallets, size, timing, counterparties... all public the second you click confirm. Tachyon now live on Horizen mainnet bringing private cross-chain transfers + swaps with native asset settlement, no wrapper maze, no public trail. Privacy infra entering its utility era. send your first private crosschain transfer today at: https://www.tachyon.pe/bridge

Most systems force the transparency-or-privacy tradeoff. Obscura proves the signal, hides the noise. ZK on Horizen makes that viable at scale. Deep dive: https://x.com/useobscura/status/2051718577061785737?s=46

Zenrise Season 2 is live. Less "points farming”, more actually exploring what ships on Horizen. Zenrise towards real activity across the ecosystem. Good entry point if you missed Season 1 👍 https://zenrise.horizen.io

🔊Zenrise Season 1 Update: Out of an abundance of caution following the NPM package security incident last week, we temporarily heightened our OpSec protocols. Your security is not something we take shortcuts on. We're targeting April 7th or 8th as the opening claim date and will confirm as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience, we'll keep you posted.

Horizen has introduced Vela, a confidential compute layer designed to enable private, verifiable execution on the Horizen Chain. Built on a "blind operator" architecture, Vela utilizes Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to isolate application logic and data at the hardware level, ensuring that even network operators cannot observe the computation. For developers, this infrastructure offers a way to build regulatory compliant, privacy first applications using familiar languages like Go and Rust or any language that compiles to WebAssembly (WASM). https://blog.horizen.io/introducing-vela-the-confidential-compute-layer-on-horizen

The Special Council Election is LIVE! Three seats are up for election and your vote decides who fills them. The Special Council is the 7-member body responsible for overseeing proposals, safeguarding the security of the DAO, and ensuring the financial stability of the Horizen ecosystem. These are not ceremonial roles, they have real influence over the direction of the project. Voting is open now until March 24 at 17:00 UTC on Snapshot, and you can spread your voting power across multiple candidates. Every ZEN counts, so head over and make your voice heard! :point_down: https://snapshot.org/#/s:horizenfoundationnontechnical.eth/proposal/0xa7dc914a86c0b5261b6361457c2f1c03ebcb2d8fc0b918b6bc9d3b500c62c2d4