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_Anoma is the first ever intent-centric architecture, introducing a new paradigm for building infrastructure layers and a new operating system for decentralized applications. The Anoma Foundation is thrilled to announce the completion of the 3rd round for Anoma – raising a total of USD 25M._

**May 31, 2023** - We are thrilled to announce the completion of the 3rd round for Anoma – raising a total of USD 25M. The round was co-led by returning fund CMCC Global and included the participation of Electric Capital, who has supported all rounds so far.

_“We are thrilled to be co-leading this fundraising round of Anoma. The team is pushing the boundaries of protocol design and reimagining how base layer infrastructure should operate. It is refreshing to see Anoma’s designs and philosophy against the backdrop of a homogenous group of layer 1 smart contract platforms.”_ – **Charlie Morris**, Co-founder and Managing Partner at CMCC Global.

We welcome many new backers into the ecosystem including: Delphi Digital, Dialectic, KR1, Spartan, NGC, MH Ventures, Bixin Ventures, No Limit, WAGMI, Plassa, Perridon Ventures, Anagram, and Factor, as well as more than 30 angels of diverse backgrounds, from founders of L1s and dApps to ZK cryptographers and systems designers.

_"We at Delphi Ventures are thrilled to support Anoma in its quest to fundamentally alter the way we interact within permissionless systems. We believe that Anoma's vision aligns perfectly with the principles of Crypto, fostering a decentralized and user-centric internet. Anoma's intent-centric architecture represents a significant advancement across all fronts of blockchain infrastructure including scalability, UX, privacy and interoperability. We are excited to be part of their journey towards revolutionizing decentralized applications."_ – **Tommy Shaughnessy**, Founding Partner of Delphi Digital.

The Anoma Foundation completed two fundraising rounds in 2020 and 2021 respectively, both led by Polychain Capital, with the participation of funds including Coinbase Ventures, P2P Capital, Figment, ZKV, Maven 11, Chorus One, Lemniscap, CMS, Wicklow Capital, Informal Systems, and the Interchain Foundation.

Anoma is the first ever intent-centric architecture, introducing a new paradigm for building infrastructure layers and a new operating system for decentralized applications. Anoma’s intent-centricity introduces novel primitives that allow existing web2.5 dApps to be fully decentralized, such as optimistic and ZK rollups, DEXs, NFT marketplaces, or public goods funding applications like Gitcoin.

"We’re super excited to be investing into Anoma. Their intent-centricity and inherent focus on low-level privacy promises to unlock novel use-cases, particularly in areas such as next-generation DeFi, and represents a major step forward for the space." – **Ryan Zurrer**, Founder of Dialectic.

On a meta level, Anoma’s architecture is designed from the ground up for applications that involve infinite users, issuing infinite numbers of intents, each of arbitrary complexity. Anoma makes it straightforward to build novel applications that are otherwise clunky, limited or impossible to build on existing architectures including Ethereum (EVM) and Ethereum-like protocols. Example novel applications include runtime rollups, multiparty, multivariate bartering, DeFi dApps such as sealed-bid second price auctions, privacy-preserving DAOs, and new age / Game B economic systems such as [plural money](https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/plural-money/?ref=blog.anoma.net), [Collaborative Finance](https://cofi.informal.systems/?ref=blog.anoma.net), and [Heterotopia](https://pluranimity.org/2022/09/26/towards-heterotopia/?ref=blog.anoma.net).

Similar to when Ethereum was first introduced in a world of Bitcoin and Bitcoin-like architectures-only, our journey so far has been full of challenges. After more than 2 years of building Anoma and the ecosystem, it is incredibly heartening to see that the rest of the space is starting to get excited about the concept of intents and seeing Anoma’s architecture in production.

The marathon continues apace, as we’re getting ready for Namada’s mainnet launch in the next months – and continuing to build the Anoma protocol and its entire stack, including [Taiga](https://github.com/anoma/taiga), [Typhon](https://github.com/anoma/typhon), [Vamp-ir](https://github.com/anoma/vamp-ir), and [Juvix](https://github.com/anoma/juvix). On the Anoma front, we’re getting ready for a first public testnet with example dApps and developer tools, which will enable the very first developers to build the first applications in this intent-centric and declarative paradigm.

A big thank you to all backers, partners, and teams in the ecosystem who have supported us so far and to the team at Heliax for all the hard work so far – and thank you to the new partners for boldly supporting a radically novel architecture and category creator.

We couldn’t do it without you!

[Adrian Brink](https://twitter.com/adrian_brink?ref=anoma.foundation), [Awa Sun Yin](https://twitter.com/awasunyin?ref=anoma.foundation), [Christopher Goes](https://twitter.com/cwgoes?ref=anoma.foundation)

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Anoma Foundation’s 3rd Fundraising Round Garners USD 25M for Intent-Centric Architecture


**Zug, Switzerland, May 31, 2023** — Groundbreaking blockchain technology non-profit the Anoma Foundation is pleased to announce the successful completion of a $25 million fundraising round. The Foundation’s third round, co-led by prominent blockchain-focused VC firm CMCC Global, kicks off the race to bring the third generation of blockchains to market – and replace the legacy financial system with one that returns power to users.

Several prominent industry players pledged investment during the financing phase, including Electric Capital, Delphi Digital, Dialectic, KR1, Spartan, NGC, MH Ventures, Bixin Ventures, No Limit, Plassa, Perridon Ventures, Anagram, and Factor. In addition, over 30 angel investors from founders of L1s and dApps to ZK cryptographers endorsed the Foundation’s vision.

This significant financial backing demonstrates the widespread recognition and support for Anoma’s innovative intent-centric architecture, which represents a new paradigm for building blockchain infrastructure layers.

“Anoma is the first generalized intent-centric blockchain architecture which enables truly decentralized applications, from decentralized DEXs to decentralized rollup sequencers,” said Adrian Brink, Co-founder of Anoma. “Compared to existing architectures such as Ethereum/EVM, it makes dApps an order of magnitude more composable and an order of magnitude easier to build.”

Anoma’s intent-centricity introduces novel primitives that enable existing Web2.5 apps, such as rollups, decentralized exchanges, and NFT marketplaces, to be fully decentralized. The radical architecture also paves the way for novel applications that cannot be built on existing architectures to make their mark.

“We are thrilled to have co-led this fundraising round of Anoma,” said Charlie Morris, Co-founder and Managing Partner of CMCC Global. “The team is pushing the boundaries of protocol design and reimagining how base layer infrastructure should operate. It is refreshing to see Anoma’s designs and philosophy against the backdrop of a homogenous group of layer-1 smart contract platforms.”

The $25 million war chest will be utilized to further develop and enhance Anoma's intent-centric architecture, support ongoing research and development initiatives, and drive adoption through tools that enable developers to build applications which cannot be built on any existing system, as well as strategic partnerships and ecosystem development.

“Anoma's intent-centric architecture represents a significant advancement across all fronts of blockchain infrastructure including scalability, UX, privacy and interoperability,” said Tommy Shaughnessy, Founding Partner of Delphi Digital. “We are excited to be part of their journey towards revolutionizing decentralized applications.”

“We are super excited to be investing into Anoma,” added Dialectic founder Ryan Zurrer. “Their intent-centricity and inherent focus on low-level privacy promises to unlock novel use-cases, particularly in areas such as next-generation DeFi, and represents a major step forward for the space.”

With the successful completion of this funding round, the Anoma Foundation is perfectly positioned to continue driving innovation in the blockchain space.

**About the Anoma Foundation:**

The Anoma Foundation is a Swiss non-profit focused on funding and coordinating the development of public goods including Anoma’s intent-centric architecture and Namada, an L1 that brings the best multichain privacy to users today. By introducing a new paradigm for building blockchain infrastructure layers, Anoma aims to make it easier for web2.5 applications to become fully decentralized and exposes novel primitives and tools for developers to build applications that were never seen before.


The Anoma Foundation Announces the 3rd Fundraise for Anoma


**Zug, Switzerland** — Namada, the Layer-1 blockchain for multi-chain privacy, has proposed a partnership with fellow L1 Osmosis, home of the interchain DEX of the same name. The proposal was made by Namada co-founder Christopher Goes on the Osmosis governance forum.

The potential partnership would see Namada and Osmosis strengthen the already close ties that exist between the projects, with a particular focus on enhancing multi-chain privacy for users. Collaboration between Namada and Osmosis in this capacity is intended to enrich the respective ecosystems and bring a raft of benefits, particularly to holders of $OSMO tokens, stakers and LP’ers who would be eligible for an upcoming Namada airdrop.

According to Goes, the L1 blockchain platform is interested in allocating continuous public goods funding to a grants pool managed by the Osmosis Grants Program, with the goal of funding projects that offer benefit to both the Osmosis and Namada ecosystems. Moreover, Namada would implement Shielded Actions, a feature which allows $OSMO holders and Osmosis users to seamlessly benefit from both the privacy features of Namada and the trading capabilities of Osmosis.

**Christopher Goes**, co-founder of Namada said: Osmosis did the first real “go-to-market” for IBC, without which neither the protocol nor the Cosmos ecosystem would be what they are today. With this proposal, Namada aims to give thanks and to set the stage for future cooperation. I look forward to many opportunities for positive-sum collaboration between the Namada and Osmosis ecosystems, including collaborative grants funding, shielded actions, Ferveo, and more.

**Sunny Aggarwal**, Co-founder of Osmosis Labs said: Preserving privacy has never been more important than it is today. We're excited about this potential collaboration with Namada, as it would provide a mutual benefit to both networks — as well as our users — who deserve a private and user-friendly DeFi experience.

**Dev Ojha**, co-founder of Osmosis Labs said: It’s been a pleasure working with Heliax on the design and engineering of threshold encryption, and shielded actions. Heliax folks have been great thought partners on the core problems around blockchain design. I’m quite excited about potential further collaboration between the ecosystems on privacy technology, and protocol design!

Although the proposal has not yet been carried forward, Heliax – the blockchain research and development firm behind both Namada and upcoming intent-centric protocol Anoma – already has an ongoing partnership with Osmosis Labs, the development team behind Osmosis. Both are busy developing synergistic features that benefit both ecosystems.

Namada leverages an upgraded version of the ZK technology pioneered by Zcash, enabling any digital asset to be transacted privately – including non-fungible tokens. Namada co-founder Christopher noted that he has known Osmosis Labs’ co-founders Sunny and Dev since their days working together at Tendermint Inc., a core contributor to the Cosmos network, in Berkeley, California. Last year, Heliax and Osmosis Labs collaborated on Ferveo, a fast threshold decryption protocol for Mempool Privacy on BFT consensus blockchains.


Namada Proposes Partnership with Osmosis to Enhance Multichain Privacy


**Zug, Switzerland** – Christopher Goes, co-founder of [Namada](https://namada.net), the L1 blockchain for multichain privacy, has proposed an airdrop to transparent and shielded ZEC holders as a mechanism for retroactive public goods funding directly to folks who have financially supported [Zcash](https://z.cash/) development in the past by holding and using the ZEC asset.

The Anoma Foundation plans to include in Namada’s genesis block proposal an allocation for a direct airdrop (allocation of NAM, the Namada staking token) as part of at least 20% of Namada’s genesis block proposal to [Retroactive Public Goods Funding](https://blog.namada.net/namada-rpgf-program/), to current Zcash holders. Distribution of the airdrop may happen in stages after mainnet Namada is live later this spring.

This airdrop would cover all ZEC, including both transparent and shielded. While many transparent airdrops have been done before, this will be the first time an airdrop is done directly to shielded ZEC holders (who can claim without compromising their privacy). This process relies upon the convert circuit pioneered by Namada, which allows the airdrop to be done in a fully shielded fashion.

The exact parameters of the airdrop are yet to be determined, but the rates will be calibrated such that shielded ZEC receives slightly more than transparent ZEC, in order to reward past and current users of Zcash who have contributed to shared privacy.

This airdrop is proposed alongside other funding mechanisms such as the establishment of a grants pool and a possible future donation to the Zcash Sustainability Fund or other protocol-level funding mechanism adopted by the Zcash community. These explorations are part of the proposed strategic alliance between Zcash and Namada, with the goal of helping to align the interests of both networks and encourage continued collaboration in the long-term.

Christopher Goes of the Anoma Foundation said: “Namada wouldn’t have been possible without the world-class research, development, and outreach efforts of the Zcash community, and we’d like to offer material thanks to ZEC users and holders who have tirelessly supported these efforts.”

**About Zcash**
Zcash is a fair and open currency designed to protect people’s freedom. Zcash is supported by a decentralised ecosystem, including multiple node implementations, diverse individuals and organisations, and world-class scientists, engineers, and technical educators all around the world.

Learn more: [https://z.cash/](https://z.cash/)


Multichain Privacy Protocol Namada is First One to propose a Shielded Airdrop to ZEC


**Zug, Switzerland** – A strategic alliance between Namada, a L1 blockchain for multichain privacy, and Zcash has been proposed by Christopher Goes, Co-Founder of Namada. The arrangement will see the communities and ecosystems of both networks, Zcash and Namada, collaborate in research and development in multiple areas, including cross-chain bridging, proof-of-stake mechanism design, and shielded multi-signature accounts. Namada will also explore retroactive and proactive funding mechanisms for the development of the Zcash ecosystem.

As part of this alliance, the Anoma Foundation (steward of the Anoma and Namada ecosystems), Heliax (core developer of Namada), and other entities in the Namada ecosystem plan to collaborate with organisations in the Zcash ecosystem including the Zcash Foundation (ZF), Electric Coin Company (ECC), Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), Zcash Media, ZecHub, Nighthawk Apps, QEDIT, Shielded Labs, and more.

Namada builds upon technology pioneered by Zcash and would like to give credit where credit is due. As part of this alliance, the Namada community will explore retroactive and proactive funding mechanisms for Zcash ecosystem development, including a “Namada <3 Zcash” grants pool and potential future contribution into the Zcash Sustainability Fund or other protocol-level funding mechanism adopted by the Zcash community. These contributions are designed to help align the interests of both ecosystems and encourage continued collaboration in the long-term.

Namada is the first protocol that brings shared zero-knowledge privacy to users of the multichain. Namada leverages an upgraded version of the world-class ZK technology initially developed by the ECC and pioneered by Zcash. Namada’s cryptography enables any asset to be transacted privately, including both fungible and non-fungible tokens. In Namada, all assets will share one anonymity set, thereby providing the best privacy possible for the multichain user.

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**Christopher Goes** of the Anoma Foundation said: “Namada couldn’t have come into existence without the technical contributions and socio-economic programme of the Zcash community, and we would like to give material thanks back to the Zcash community in addition to verbal credit. We’re looking forward to many future collaborations between both ecosystems.”

**Zooko Wilcox** of Zcash development team ECC said: “The Namada community and the Zcash community believe that everyone has a right to individual and collective freedom. I’m super excited that the Namada folks are supporting Zcash’s decentralization and sustainability, and I can’t wait to see the impact of this initiative.”

**Jack Gavigan** of the Zcash Foundation said: "We welcome Namada's interest in working with the Zcash community. It's great to see a project that leverages technology pioneered by Zcash looking to give back to the Zcash ecosystem. With QEDIT's work to implement Zcash Shielded Assets (ZSA) nearly complete, the benefits of building bridges to other networks, and collaborating with other ecosystems are clear. We look forward to supporting Namada in launching a grants program to fund projects that benefit both Namada and Zcash."

**Amber O'Hearn** of Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) member said: “The ZCG is happy to see this kind of initiative to contribute back to the ecosystem in a variety of ways that could mutually benefit both projects, and we're excited to see what develops.”

**Aditya Bharadwaj** of Nighthawk Apps said: “Building bridges and unleashing the potential of ZEC has been the dream for many Zcashers. The skill set of Namada and Heliax core developers and cryptographers are a great match to the upcoming developments on the Zcash network. Namada planning to contribute tokens to the Zcash Posterity Fund and a possible airdrop to the ZEC holders, foreshows the synergy between the two ecosystems.”

**Jason McGee** of Shielded Labs, a new Swiss-based Zcash organization, said: “Shielded Labs is currently exploring developing and supporting the Zcash Sustainability Fund. A potential future contribution to the Fund would be a terrific way for Namada to support the long-term financial sustainability of the Zcash network. This is a very exciting strategic partnership between two ecosystems with similar values, and I look forward to seeing the innovative developments that come from future collaborative efforts.”

**Jason Rogers** of ZecHub said: ZecHub is a community driven education initiative centred around Zcash & the growing ecosystem of privacy preserving technologies. Namada leads the way with significant contributions to the public good. The Trustless cross-chain transfer protocol: ZCLAIM holds the privacy guarantees of Zcash at its core, unlocking the full potential of Shielded ZEC to be used securely in DeFi applications such as supporting DAO’s like ZecHub. It’s a shining example of the values Zcash and Namada share. For this reason we hope to consider you our friends, we’re excited to learn more & try it out!

**David Boyer** of Zcash Media said: The vision for collaboration between the Namada and Zcash communities is as ambitious as it is generous. Filled with win-win thinking and design ideas, it could be a major boon to both camps that unlocks additional functionality for Zcash while establishing Namada as a versatile privacy hub in the crypto ecosystem. Given today's incentives for seemingly endless data extraction, this alliance between like-minded communities is a model for showing another world is possible.

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**About Zcash**
Zcash is a fair and open currency designed to protect people’s freedom. Zcash is supported by a decentralised ecosystem, including multiple node implementations, diverse individuals and organisations, and world-class scientists, engineers, and technical educators all around the world.

Learn more: [https://z.cash/](https://z.cash/)


Multichain Privacy Protocol Namada Proposes a Strategic Alliance With Zcash


_In anticipation of the upcoming mainnet launch of Namada, the foundation is planning to recommend a genesis block with a minimum of 20% allocated to privacy tech builders and advocates for prior contributions._

**31 January 2023** - The Anoma Foundation, which fosters the development and sustainability of the Anoma ecosystem, has today announced that it is making a substantial sum of retroactive public goods funding available to projects that contribute to common causes of privacy and autonomy. The funding scope covers research and technical implementation work in relevant fields, public advocacy for the right to privacy, and artistic and community efforts to help realize a private, flourishing world.

In anticipation of the upcoming mainnet launch of Anoma’s first fractal instance, Namada, a proof-of-stake layer 1 for interchain asset-agnostic shielded transfers, the foundation plans to recommend a genesis block with at least 20% of initial token supply dedicated to retroactive public goods funding.The foundation will allow anyone, including entrants, to nominate a third party. If selected, both the nominee and the person who nominated them will be rewarded for their contribution, incentivizing a symbiotic community within the ecosystem.

**Awa Sun Yin, Co-Founder of Namada and Anoma said:** “Privacy-preserving protocols and applications in the multi-chain are rapidly growing, but this horizontal growth doesn’t lead to better privacy for users because it is often fragmented by currency, platform, and application. Without protocols like Namada, the number of privacy solutions will continue to grow without necessarily improving privacy guarantees for users of these solutions. We want to grow interchain privacy across major ecosystems including Cosmos and Ethereum, which is why we are making this funding available.”

**Christopher Goes, Co Founder Namada and Anoma said:** “For every well known project and initiative that has contributed to the cause of interchain privacy, there are ten more that we don't know. While it is impossible to trace all contributions perfectly, we want to invite the public to help us learn more about important initiatives in the space that may have gone under the radar. By doing this, we can begin to compile a directory and a history of contributions, which is itself a public good, both as a more accurate allocation of credit and as a resource for retroactive distributions performed by future projects.”

The funding is open to a broad spectrum of categories including:

- Research work in cryptography, distributed systems, and cryptoeconomics, especially concerning designs which Namada uses, such as zero-knowledge proofs, Tendermint BFT, and proof-of-stake.
- Implementation work in cryptography, distributed systems, cryptoeconomics, and data structures, especially code which Namada imports directly or is inspired by.
- Public advocacy work defending individual and collective rights to privacy, free speech, and self-determination.
- Local meetups, user groups, and online tutorials which help people understand what privacy technology is available and how to protect themselves.
- Art, speculative fiction, and critical analysis reflecting on the role of technology in individual and cultural consciousness related to privacy.

Nominations must be submitted by the 5th of March 2023, when the Anoma Foundation will compile these into a recommendation for funding allocations in the Namada genesis block. The foundation invites written nominations to be posted on the Namada forum in the RPGF category as separate threads. By opening up the process to public nomination, the Foundation hopes that recognition can be spread far and wide, and not just concentrated on already well known projects.


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