Helius acquired Light Protocol to build privacy layer for Solana
Helius acquired Light Protocol to build privacy layer for Solana Helius is acquiring Light Protocol, the team that wrote Solana's original ZK syscalls and built ZK Compression, bringing first-class privacy across the Solana ecosystem. Light's primitives underpin nearly every ZK app on Solana today, and its ZK Compression cut onchain state costs by up to 1000x. The combined team will turn privacy into native infrastructure, not a bolt-on. Helius frames privacy as the final scaling frontier: Bitcoin proved cryptographic money, Ethereum made it programmable, and the goal now is private crypto…
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