What is Namada?

• Namada is Anoma’s first fractal instance and it deploys v1 of the Anoma protocol. This protocol version includes a subset of components of Anoma that enables shielded transfers for any kind of asset (fungible and non-fungible ones) independent of the platform they were created on, such as Ethereum or IBC-compatible chains. Using Namada you can transfer your ETH, DAI or any other fungible asset or NFT from Ethereum or your ATOM or OSMO from any IBC chain and send them around privately with a few second transaction latency and near-zero fees.

• With the purpose of making privacy-preserving transfers more accessible for end users, Namada is vertically integrated and will be released with user friendly interfaces in 2022.

Namada is a stake for agnostic privacy of inter-chain assets Proof L1

• Zero-knowledge proofs and MASP:

  Only the sender and receiver know nothing about the transaction, and all assets share an anonymity set.

• Modern Consensus and Proof of Stake:
  Tendermint BFT consensus and advanced proof-of-stake with cubic slashing and upgraded F1 fee distribution.

• immediate:
  Fast Finalization Close deals in seconds.

• Ultra-low fees:
  By regulating the economic mechanism of hidden transaction fees.

Namada trusted settings

The trusted setup ceremony generates public parameters for Namada's multi-asset shielded pool circuit and guarantees its security under the assumption of at least one honest party.

How to participate in Namada?

• Participate in the upcoming Namada trusted setup: Namada will require new parameters. I highly recommend attending the ceremony, especially if you're excited about shielded transmissions with Namada. The more participants, the better. Get ready to show off your op-sec considerations or unique sources of randomness, and prove to other participants that you're free of toxic waste (secret information you personally use to generate data that needs to be unrecoverable). The ceremony is planned for midsummer 2022 and may be incentivized.

• Participate in the upcoming Namada public testnet: If you are considering contributing to network security by running validators and governing the future of the network through governance, you should stay tuned to the upcoming public testnet in summer 2022, which may be excitation.

• Try Namada as a user: Try Namada's shielded transfers, bridging assets from other chains, staking, governance voting via the command line client or browser-based interface. Even if you don't participate in the public testnet before the mainnet goes live, early versions of the interface will be integrated so we can incorporate user feedback.

The most important thing at this time is

• follow @namadanetwork

• Subscribe to the newsletter on namada.net

• Register for a trusted ceremony

• Join the Anoma community on Discord