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Status: Rejected

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Application Date

09 Dec 2025

How will you go to market?

Our go-to-market strategy is built around one principle:

Privacy tools succeed only when their UX disappears.

We will scale adoption by embedding the mixer into existing user flows across NEAR, minimizing friction and maximizing anonymity set growth. Our strategy focuses on distribution, developer adoption, and institutional credibility, executed in three reinforcing layers:


1. Zero-Friction Distribution Through NEAR Intents + Light Wallet Integrations

Unlike competitors who depend on a single wallet or attempt to negotiate multiple slow integrations, our model uses NEAR Intents as the universal distribution layer:

  • One-click deposits from ANY wallet supporting NEAR Intents

  • A lightweight “Embed Mode” allowing any wallet or dApp to add the mixer with 2 lines of code

  • A mini-widget version for tipping, gaming, creator payouts

This makes the mixer instantly accessible across the entire network — not locked behind a single app.

We differentiate by not needing exclusive partners to scale.


2. Developer-First Tooling to Make This a Privacy Primitive

To become a protocol, not a product, we will ship:

  • A plug-and-play SDK for privacy deposits and withdrawals

  • CLI automation for batch ticket creation

  • A BOS widget that ANY builder can fork in under 3 minutes

  • "Privacy-as-a-Service" API so social apps, yield apps, and gaming dApps can trigger private transfers without circuit expertise

We will run:

  • A NEAR Privacy Week virtual workshop

  • A builder bounty for the first 50 dApps integrating privacy tickets

  • Example integrations for creators, social platforms, and DeFi position funding

This creates the ecosystem traction we need to move forward.


3. Institutional & Compliance-Friendly Pools (Weeks 8–20)

Where competitors talk about "institutions", we implement actual compliance-ready mechanisms:

  • Optional proof-of-innocence (Privacy Pools model)

  • Allow-listed institutional pools

  • Standardized reporting mode (for DAOs, treasuries, grant recipients)

This enables use cases competitors may not support, including:

  • Market maker vault funding

  • DAO payroll privacy

  • OTC settlement abstraction

  • Treasury diversification without revealing strategy

We position the mixer as NEAR’s institutional payment abstraction layer — not just a consumer mixer.


Marketing Narrative

We will own the message:

“Privacy is not secrecy — it is safety.”

We will publish:

  • A “NEAR Privacy Survival Guide”

  • “Top 10 On-Chain Threats You Avoid With Private Payments”

  • An interactive dashboard showing real-time anonymity set growth

Adoption is driven by confidence, clarity, and credibility — not hype.


Why are you the best team to build this?


We are building this as a dedicated privacy startup, optimized for velocity, compliance, and adoption.


1. Startup-Speed Execution With Product-Market Fit Awareness

We operate like a startup:

  • Fast delivery cycles

  • Direct founder involvement

  • Week-over-week product iteration

  • Hyper-focus on UX + adoption, not theory

Where others rely on corporate structure or a single distribution app, we design the product as ecosystem infrastructure from day one.


2. Specialized Mix of Skills: ZKP, Rust, Payments, and GTM

Our team includes:

  • ZK engineer (circuits, nullifiers, batching, proof optimization)

  • Rust / NEAR smart contract developer

  • Product lead experienced in payments UX and security flows

  • Growth operator with proven track record in Web3 go-to-market execution

This combination gives us what competitors LACK:

  • Practical ZK + privacy system design

  • NEAR-native contract fluency

  • Product velocity

  • Ability to scale a protocol beyond its MVP


3. Full Compliance-Aware Architecture (Competitive Differentiator)

We will implement:

  • Privacy Pools model

  • Optional auditor view-key

  • OFAC-safe mechanisms

  • Non-US deployment at launch

  • MIT open-source licensing

This prevents the legal pitfalls that regulators used against Tornado Cash.

most competitors are will not addressed compliance with this level of depth.
This is critical for NEAR, wallets, and institutions.


4. Our “Weakness” is Actually Our Strength

We are NOT a large organization with bureaucratic delays.
We are NOT tied to another product whose success we cannot control.
We are NOT a single engineer who cannot scale.

We are a focused, fast, hungry privacy-first team building this as our flagship product and business, guaranteeing attention, velocity, and ownership.

How do you plan to sustain the project beyond grant funding?

We present a clear sustainability engine that goes beyond relayer fees and corporate services. we believe that the grant fee from here will get us up to our MVP and start generating fees to prove this idea.


1. Protocol-Native Revenue Streams

a. Dynamic Relayer Fee (0.05–0.25%)

Covers operations and produces stable revenue.

b. Institutional Pools & Treasury Privacy Tools

Offer paid enterprise-grade privacy modules:

  • Treasury payment abstraction

  • Private payroll flows

  • Private OTC settlement API

  • DAO-level privacy vaults

Competitors do not have this.

c. Developer Premium Features

  • High-speed proving endpoints

  • Automated ticket batching

  • Enterprise SLAs


2. Ecosystem-Aligned Fundraising Strategy

We will raise additional capital through:

  • NEAR Foundation + Proximity grants

  • ZK funding programs

  • Gitcoin rounds

  • Seed round after achieving key KPIs (anonymity set, volume, wallet integrations)

  • Optional token launch on Calyx.xyz after product-market fit, not before

This creates a clear runway.


3. Open-Source Core, Commercial Extensions

The core protocol is MIT licensed.
We monetize optional layers:

  • Managed relayer infrastructure

  • Compliance modules

  • API integrations

  • Institutional implementations

  • AI aggregator

This hybrid model ensures long-term sustainability.


4. Long-Term Vision: Become NEAR’s Privacy Infrastructure Company

We extend into:

  • Private transfers SDK

  • Multichain privacy pools

  • Private swaps

  • Burner & stealth address generation

  • Chain-signature-enabled privacy bridges

  • AI monitoring and reporting

This isn't a one-off mixer.
This is the foundation of the privacy infrastructure startup native to NEAR.

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Core Team

Lead Supervisor (Rust × ZK × NEAR)

GitHub: https://github.com/luishsr
Demo: https://github.com/luishsr/zk-mini
X: https://twitter.com/luishsoares

Snr Advisor
Portfolio: https://anirudha.co/
Demo: https://github.com/onyb/zkloans
GitHub: https://github.com/onyb

Product & UX Lead
Website: https://www.sanju.sh/
GitHub: https://github.com/Spikeysanju


Zk+ NEAR Engineer
Website: https://curryrasul.com/projects/
GitHub: https://github.com/curryrasul

Growth & Adoption Lead
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iheanyichima
GitHub: https://github.com/nicefacer

Past Work / Demonstrated Experience

Anything Else

We can provide immediately:

  • Architecture diagram

  • Threat model

  • Ticketing & nullifier structure

  • Early UX mockups

  • MVP proving pipeline

  • Draft compliance memo

  • SDK preview + BOS widget

We are ready to ship from Day 1.

Our mission:

Make privacy on NEAR effortless, compliant, unstoppable — and a core building block for the entire ecosystem.

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