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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.
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WASM-native proving for ZK SDKs: an SDK author's take
Why zera-sdk ships native Rust on Node and snarkjs in the browser — and what it would actually cost to ship a WASM-compiled Rust prover for the browser path. A design post about the dual-target build pipeline.
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From sailor to CEO in three acts
A short memoir of a strange decade — Navy reactor compartments, a bitcoin mine, ConsenSys-USAA-PMG, and the arc that ended at Zera Labs. The interesting question is not how I got here. It is where everyone else is going.
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Stuck Sell, Post-Graduation: Fixing a Trapped-Funds Bug Without a Redeploy
A graduated launchpad token left users unable to sell. Fix shipped without redeploying the program: a frontend conversion path that withdraws SPL, compresses, then sells through the AMM.
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Privacy's broadband moment
ZK got fast, hardware got attestable, AI agents started carrying their own wallets, and regulators stopped trying to ban math. Four curves crossed and privacy stopped being a research topic — it became infrastructure.
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The MCP server inside zera-sdk
Most SDKs ship as a library. zera-sdk also ships as a Model Context Protocol server. Here is why an AI agent should be able to call shielded-pool primitives directly, and how we keep that interface from becoming a footgun.
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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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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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144 Tests and a Surfpool Devnet
How the Zera SDK got from "scaffolded" to "trustable" — a 144-test Vitest suite, a Surfpool-forked devnet running on a Latitude box, and a quickstart that actually works.