Why did Helius decide to build a native Solana privacy protocol rather than a separate chain?
Replied byMert Mumtaz
Co-Founder & CEO at Helius
Niche: Cryptocurrency
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2022
Solana was losing institutional projects to zero-knowledge rollups and separate privacy chains. By building on Solana using Light Protocol's zero-knowledge compression, we can encrypt data fully on chain. This preserves composability with all existing Solana liquidity and user wallets while maintaining scalability.
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