Panther Protocol Expands Its Partnership With Flare To Include Songbird — Flare’s Canary Network

Panther Protocol:

As you have gathered from our ongoing communications and partnership announcements, we are on an active mission to align the very best projects of the blockchain ecosystem with Panther to create the Privacy layer for the internet of blockchains. By doing this, we hope to create a perfect storm that makes privacy in DeFi and Web3 a standard, rather than an afterthought.

Today, we’re glad to announce that, along with our partner, Flare, we have decided to expand this partnership into its canary network, Songbird.

Flare is the world’s first Turing-complete FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement) network. Built to “Unlock the Value” inherent in the 65% of blockchains that do not have native smart contracts by bringing, for the first time, true trustless usage of those tokens with scalable smart contracts and integrating Ethereum’s Virtual Machine in a scalable way.

Blockchain interoperability is a hot topic right now, and Flare is taking a unique approach by going straight for the older, bigger blockchains that need smart contracting and interoperability capabilities. Flare and Songbird are kicking things off with Ripple, Litecoin, Stellar and Doge. Bringing new capabilities (and privacy features!) to these projects is big, and we’re thrilled to be working with Flare / Songbird.

Building a privacy ecosystem, together

Songbird will integrate Panther’s Shielded Pools into its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to enable on-chain privacy for its users. Our team will deploy Panther’s privacy-preserving infrastructure on Songbird for code testing.

Thanks to these efforts, Panther users will be able to benefit from private transactions over Songbird. We expect this, in turn, to also dramatically increase the user base and TVL potential of Panther’s Shielded Pools.

Songbird users will be included in Panther’s staking and governance. They’ll also be able to benefit from private DeFi within the network, access selective disclosures both for retail users and institutions, and enjoy early access to Panther’s KYC/AML zero-knowledge solution on Songbird’s Institutional side.

Overall, a major win-win scenario for privacy and interoperability in DeFi and Web3!

Upon finalizing the agreement, Co-Founder and CEO Oliver Gale said:“From the first day, there was clear alignment between the founders of Panther and Flare Network around the need for privacy, compliance, security and scalability in blockchain ecosystems, and in particular those relating to institutional DeFi. In Flare and Songbird we see great ecosystem partners, innovative technology and clear action-oriented plans to mass adoption.”

Hugo Philion, Co-Founder and CEO at Flare and Songbird added“Songbird has launched to be a thriving testbed for the most ground-breaking decentralised technologies. So we are thrilled that Panther are leveraging their zkSNARK cryptography and state of the art asset mixing technologies to deliver the privacy solutions that DeFi radically requires to make a giant leap forward. Stablecoins, utility tokens and NFTs can now become infused with privacy, giving sovereignty back to the user.”

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