Series → #ZERA cryptography
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Pedersen commitments, in production
ZERA marketing says "Pedersen Commitments" on the cryptography page. The SDK ships Poseidon. Both are right — and the gap between them is the whole story of what shipping ZK in 2026 actually looks like.
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Nullifiers without the witchcraft
Nullifier Generation is on the ZERA front page next to Pedersen Commitments and Zero-Knowledge Proofs. The Rust + TypeScript implementations are six lines apiece. Here is what they actually do, and why the design borrows from Zcash.
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Hot Potato: the floor that won't budge (unless you're math)
TATER is a potato with a hidden floor that is proven never to drop and a reserve proven to cover every holder. Built on the shielded-note stack I've been assembling for Zera and Vanta. A plain-English tour of what a ZK proof actually buys you.
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Hot Potato post-mortem: the floor held, the token didn't matter
Four days of TATER on mainnet, every trade on one chart. The proven floor did exactly what it promised and was irrelevant to the price the whole time. What went wrong, what held, and how I would build the next one.