The team behind zkok have been Mina Protocol Community members since the very early days. Our primary focus is always to promote and support all members of the Mina Protocol Ecosystem equally and we will continue to do this in the future.

Here we go! We now have a date for the Berkeley Mainnet Upgrade! Exciting news echoes through the Mina community as we gear up for the Berkeley Upgrade. The upgrade is scheduled for June 4, 2024 and the Mina Foundation, in collaboration with o1Labs, is thrilled to unveil this transformative update to the Mina Protocol.

By Naamah (naamah8064 on Discord) The reason I wrote this article is I wanted to test deploying a node on the Berkeley network to test ZkApps. So I went to the Berkeley RC1 release note here : https://github.com/MinaProtocol/mina/releases/tag/2.0.0berkeley_rc1 and start following installation guide. Things didn’t go as expected.

At the core of Mina’s design is the use of recursive zk-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge), which are a form of cryptographic proof that enables the protocol to maintain a constant-sized blockchain, regardless of the number of transactions processed.