horizen (ZEN)

How the Metalayer multiplies Horizen’s impact: → Attestations, proofs and confidential data flows can move across chains → Builders on any Caldera chain can deploy private components by calling into Horizen → ZEN becomes accessible everywhere through Metatoken + Metalayer 🔒

Seeing @HorizenLabs ($ZEN) transition to a Base L3 mainnet, I felt a bit emotional. As a typical case, I'll briefly explain, the challenges ZEN faces mainly stem from two points: 1⃣ First is the common problem all privacy projects face: regulatory pressure and market positioning confusion. After the LUNA crash, the global regulatory crackdown on privacy coins forced Horizen to remove privacy transaction functions from its mainnet to avoid delisting risk from several major exchanges. This regulatory incident also proves one thing: a completely anonymous, unregulated privacy path is not viable in market adoption and compliance. Therefore, a key consensus in the current privacy track is to provide selectively disclosed privacy features to meet institutional and user needs, rather than fighting regulation. I've been expressing this view: only privacy that can be selectively disclosed can be called privacy. 2⃣ The second is the common problem most so-called L1s face: As an older project that started in 2017 and focuses on privacy, Horizen has some technical accumulation in zero‑knowledge proofs, but the independent ecosystem development has always been lukewarm, facing classic issues such as insufficient developers, scarce applications, fragmented liquidity, and limited brand voice. As the Ethereum L2 ecosystem represented by Base, supported by Coinbase, rapidly rises, creating a strong developer, user, and capital aggregation effect. So for Horizen, rather than continuing to painstakingly maintain an entire independent blockchain infrastructure, it is better to attach to a thriving super‑ecosystem, focus on its strongest privacy technology, and instantly gain a ready, massive market entry. Therefore, in my view, this transition can also be seen as a landmark event: Ethereum and its L2‑built layered architecture ecosystem have matured enough to attract and absorb other distinctive independent blockchains. It is no longer a simple asset cross‑chain, but the entire chain, with its core tech stack and community vision, integrates into Ethereum's ecological matrix. This also validates what I've been saying: Ethereum will serve as the ultimate global settlement layer and security base. In the future, many L1s will face two choices: extinction or becoming Ethereum ecosystem L2/L3. All chains return to E. #TheYearofEthereum

$ZEN $ICP https://t.co/2hCrbcraZG

$ZEN (per request) This one was super over‑hyped and another "proxy" trade. I still need to make a video discussing proxy trades and why they're not always a great idea. Lots of resistance to clear if this one wants to have a real pump https://t.co/5a2ieeLMOt

LayerZero has privacy

A big congrats to the @horizenglobal team! This is just the beginning 👏

$ZEN After weeks of tight consolidation, ZEN has finally broken out of its long-term falling wedge. A clean bounce from the lower trendline + a decisive move above resistance suggests that momentum may be shifting in favor of the bulls. Holding the breakout area could open the door to the next major targets - first around $12.8, then $18+, and potentially higher. 🚀 #Crypto #ZEN

[NEW MAINNET POWERED BY CALDERA] → @horizenglobal has successfully launched on Mainnet with Caldera's Rollup Engine Horizen is a privacy-first ecosystem that gives builders the tools to build scalable, high-performance and privacy-centric apps, while tapping into @base liquidity network. Horizen also joins a growing network of specialized rollups on the Caldera Metalayer, contributing something unique: privacy as a shared capability across the entire ecosystem. Any Caldera rollup can now integrate Horizen as its privacy module. Privacy that scales. Powered by Caldera.

Retro privacy project Horizen announced a reboot of its mainnet on Base, transitioning into a Layer 3 network, aiming to provide a “compliant and feasible” privacy solution. The project originally launched in 2017 as ZenCash, later renamed Horizen, and this summer reissued the ZEN token while deprecating the old main chain and the EON sidechain. Horizen Labs stated that the new network will achieve regulated privacy through a “selective disclosure” mechanism and plans to launch a 100 million ZEN developer grant program to support applications such as privacy finance, GambleFi, SocialFi, and others. Horizen is currently collaborating with infrastructure platforms like Caldera, LayerZero, Stork, Den, and the cross-chain bridge is supported by LayerZero’s Stargate. (The Block) https://t.co/4NfVq7NbiF