Product & Protocol

Blog post was co-written with Samuel Huber, dTech.vision. Building a mini app on Farcaster used to sound like rocket science. Now it’s as easy as opening ChatGPT, typing “make me a prediction market,” and watching your idea come to life. Generative AI turned what used to take a

The Scale of the Problem If you’re part of a DAO, you already know the numbers are big. Treasuries collectively hold billions of dollars, and every year hundreds of millions flow out on audits, grants, marketing, and tooling. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: a lot of that money

We’ve Seen This Before. It’s Happening Again. In 2014, Michael Lewis published a book called Flash Boys. It pulled back the curtain on Wall Street’s dirty little secret: a small group of trading firms had rigged the game. They spent millions on faster cables and servers so

We're excited to share some big news: Erigon’s 3.1.0 Pebble Paw release now officially supports Shutter’s encrypted mempool on the Gnosis chain in addition to the Nethermind client. Erigon is a high-performance Ethereum execution client, and this update makes it easier than ever for

What if your AI could launch time-locked encrypted workflows with just a few prompts? That’s now possible with today’s release of the testnet alpha of Shutter MCP, powered by Shutter API. With Shutter MCP, your AI can set up and run: * Sealed-bid request for proposals * Sealed bug bounties

Not all MEV is bad. Arbitrage and liquidations help DeFi run smoothly - but front-running and sandwich attacks exploit users. Shutter’s encrypted mempools stop the malicious kind while preserving the good, restoring fairness without killing efficiency. Here's how it works.

DAO voters have long demanded permanent private voting. It’s now on Shutter’s roadmap. This post shares the architecture and a working POC showing how we’re extending threshold-encrypted voting with ElGamal-based homomorphic tallying - so votes are counted in the encrypted state and remain private.

We appreciate the thoughtful perspectives of the analysts at a16z Crypto on the limitations and potential of encrypted mempools in addressing MEV (Maximal Extractable Value). Their recent blog post raises valid points and highlights genuine challenges. That said, we see several key issues differently and offer a perspective informed by

CZ recently called for a dark pool-style perp DEX - but there’s no need to build a full FHE dark pool. Shutter API for Shielded Trading offers a scalable solution today using threshold encryption to stop malicious MEV across DEXs, OTC desks, and derivatives.