Protocol Village: Fhenix, Developer of ‘Confidential Blockchain,’ Now Plans Ethereum Rollups

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Nov. 16: Fhenix, which announced a $7M fundraising in September to build a “confidential blockchain” powered by fully homomorphic encryption or (FHE), disclosed Thursday that it is “introducing FHE Rollups to boost privacy on Ethereum and similar networks.” According to a message from the team: “These rollups enable secure on-chain transactions and private applications, letting developers craft confidential layer-2 networks while staying compatible with Ethereum.” Fhenix founder Guy Zyskind told CoinDesk in an interview that “We’re going to have our canonical Fhenix L2 mainnet,” but also “We’re trying to be the encrypted rollup stack” that builders can use to create their own networks. “Developers are not going to know there’s crazy math and encryption under the hood,” he said.

DLN, BloXroute to Create High-Speed Cross-Chain Intents Network

Nov. 16: DLN, which stands for deSwap Liquidity Network, a cross-chain trading infrastructure build on deBridge, has entered into a strategic partnership with bloXroute, a DeFi performance provider, “to provide MEV searchers, institutional DeFi traders and projects with lightning-fast intents-based cross-chain value exchange,” according to the team: “Thanks to the synergy between DLN high performance infrastructure and the fast transaction-propagation capabilities of bloXroute’s blockchain distribution network, users and integrating dApps will be able to use bloXroute API for the fastest cross-chain interactions available.”

Kinetex Gets Strategic Investment to Build on Gnosis

Nov. 16: Kinetex Network, a decentralized platform for cross-chain trading, announced the close of a strategic funding round, a “seven-figure sum,” led by Factor and Gnosis Chain, to build on Gnosis Chain, a community-led EVM layer-1, according to the team: “This partnership empowers Kinetex to refine its groundbreaking trading approach to transferring liquidity between networks that eliminates the need to store assets in pools and leverages zero-knowledge (Zk) technology to achieve validation without relying on third parties…. Kinetex plans to launch its public testnet on Gnosis Chain early next year. Scheduled to last three months, the test phase is geared towards identifying bugs and refining the user experience.”

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Nocturne, Protocol for On-Chain Private Accounts, Deploys v1 to Ethereum

Nov. 16: Nocturne, a protocol enabling on-chain private accounts, has announced the successful deployment of Nocturne v1 to Ethereum mainnet. According to the team: “This marks a significant milestone in the journey towards a more private and accessible Ethereum. For the first time, users will have a compatible and easy-to-use product resembling a private onchain account.”

CORRECTION (Nov. 16, 11:17 UTC): Corrects spelling of Kinetex in headline, first line.

Edited by Bradley Keoun.