2021 was a year we will never forget!
Together with the #MinaCommunity, Mina accomplished so much and we would like to celebrate it.
A thread of some of last year's highlights ✨
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1/ We started off the year strong with Testworld, Mina's Adversarial Testnet.
The community showed up to make it the largest Proof-of-Stake testnet outside of Eth2.0 with over 3.5K participants! 🧑💻
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#Testworld is officially Mina's biggest ever public testnet!
More than 𝟯,𝟱𝟬𝟬 participants
𝟭,𝟮𝟬𝟬+ connected to the adversarial testnet
Participants from 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ countries
Over 𝟭𝟮,𝟱𝟬𝟬 Testworld challenges completed
#MinaAdversarial #PoweredByParticipants
More than 𝟯,𝟱𝟬𝟬 participants
𝟭,𝟮𝟬𝟬+ connected to the adversarial testnet
Participants from 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ countries
Over 𝟭𝟮,𝟱𝟬𝟬 Testworld challenges completed
#MinaAdversarial #PoweredByParticipants
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2/ In the final run-up to Mainnet, the Community Leaderboard engaged over 2K new members.🌎
With a growing community and over 650 Genesis Founding Members to secure the network, Mina was ready to go to market!
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Very excited to launch @MinaProtocol soon with more than 650 Genesis Founding Members from over 60+ countries, all helping to secure the network.
Looking forward to welcoming more community members in the run up to #MinaMainnet, join us on Discord: bit.ly/MinaDiscord
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3/ Mina Foundation welcomed its newest Board including Principal of Slow Venture , former Executive Director at Zcash, , and Crypto Engineering Lead at Twitter, , among and from Mina Foundation.
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Introducing the Mina Foundation: a non-profit steward of
@MinaProtocol, supporting the project and issuing development grants to grow the Mina ecosystem.
The Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of its board members, full details here: minaprotocol.com/announcements/
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4/ On March 23rd, #MinaMainnet officially launched the World's Lightest Blockchain — bringing uncompromised accessibility & decentralized scalability to market!
Being #PoweredByParticipants made it possible. See some of the amazing people in this video👇
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5/ Mina partnered with , a #DeFi lending dapp, to enable users to access critical on-chain services without exposing their private data.
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Teller's new #DeFi lending dapp, powered by Mina's #SNARK technology, will enable users to access critical on-chain services without exposing their private data.
Find out more here 
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6/Mina Foundation distributed $MINA tokens to 400+ #MinaCommunity Prism members who had made significant contributions to Mina’s ecosystem but had yet to receive a token grant. 💜
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7/ The #MinaCommunity began meeting to discuss ongoing projects! 🗒
Among them were ecosystem partners continuously optimizing the core protocol, working on an in-browser verifying node, and many more members with tools.
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8/ The Mina Foundation partnered with to bring their dapp developers Mina's privacy and verifiability via a bridge using Mina's #ZK technology👇
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10/ 16 #MinaCommunity members were highlighted for furthering the Foundation's aim to create a thriving Mina ecosystem.
Grantees were technical & non-tech members like for building a validator dashboard & for creating a flourishing Turkish community!
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11/ Ecosystem partner, , optimized Mina's SNARK to bring 4-6x faster verifying and proving times than last year with the new Kimchi SNARK!⚡️
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Mina's newest SNARK, Kimchi, brings faster verification and prover time than the original PLONK SNARK
Kimchi is key to bringing easy Snapps programmability to Mina as participants will soon experience increased efficiency, thus requiring less computing power!
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Kimchi is key to bringing easy Snapps programmability to Mina as participants will soon experience increased efficiency, thus requiring less computing power!
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12/ MinaResearch was launched by 11 community volunteers to bring a platform for any community member to propose, discuss, and collaborate on new protocol ideas.🤝
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Shape Mina's future!
There are great discussions happening on #MinaResearch about tokenomics, governance, fees, marketing, and more. Check it out and chime in with your ideas
Here are five interesting threads to get you started
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13/ Mina introduced SnarkyJS to hundreds of developers in a workshop and over 20 #ZeroKnowledge smart contracts were submitted for review during the Snapps Bootcamp!👷
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After a successful workshop & bootcamp, Mina is closer to becoming the first layer 1 with efficient #ZeroKnowledge smart contracts.
See how the events went, who was selected for the Snapps Builder Program grant, & more in this retro: bit.ly/30QGI9K
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14/ Mina ended 2021 with over 80K on-chain accounts, 3.3K commits to Mina's GitHub, & over 95% of eligible $MINA tokens being staked or delegated. 🎉
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16/ These are just a few of the many milestones we have made as a #MinaCommunity.
We are just getting started and look forward to seeing everything that we will accomplish together in 2022 — the year of the 22KB blockchain! ✨
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