Alex Sirac

Head of Content at Hyli, the proof-powered Layer 1 for scalable and privacy-first apps. Formerly at Meta, Alex turns complex zero-knowledge and infrastructure topics into accessible, transparent communication.

testnet

Deep dive: eZKasino, fully-proven blackjack

The Hyli testnet includes, of course, an eZKasino: a fully proven game of blackjack, complete with a Windows XP interface, just because we can.

testnet

Deep dive: the Hyli wallet abstracts your identity

On the Hyli testnet, you have one wallet to rule them all and climb the leaderboard.

testnet

Deep dive: one faucet to compose them all

On the Hyli testnet, the faucet is a Fruit Ninja-style game: slice oranges and get $ORANJ testnet tokens!

testnet

The Hyli testnet is live!

The Hyli testnet is now live! Come, play, and experience a proof-powered world.

monthly

May 2025 at Hyli

Looks like the monthly recaps are back! It's good to see you! Let's talk rebrand, an upcoming testnet, and Berlin Blockchain Week & ETHCC meetups!

So you want to build an app

So you want to build an app, but this is harder than it seems. Then you discover Hyli.

podcast

[Podcast #7] Harry on Tonk and little internets

We chatted with Harry, CEO & co-founder of Tonk, a new stack for building personal software in decentralized, interoperable data stores.

talks

Building the future of ETH now

During ETHDenver 2025, our co-founder and CTO Lancelot was invited to speak at ZK Hub about building the future of Ethereum right now with Hylé. Watch his talk or read the formatted transcript below! The world tomorrow How do you scale Ethereum? You rethink everything from a blank slate. Zero-knowledge

talks

Unleashing ZK: a new era of performance, privacy, and interoperability

At ETHDenver’s Modular & L2 Day, Sylve was part of a panel on Unleashing ZK: a new era of performance, privacy, and interoperability. You can read Sylve’s highlights below! And if you’d prefer, here’s the whole panel with Sylve, Pradeep Singh from Gateway.fm, Rebeca Vacaru

podcast

[Podcast #6] Rute on Proof of Residency

On the Hylé podcast, we talk about cool applications that leverage cryptography in general and zero-knowledge technology in particular, with a new guest every episode. Our guest for this first episode, Rute, is a software engineer and a Hylé grantee who built proof of residency, a project that leverages government-signed

February 2025 @ Hylé

Tech improvements As usual, we made many tech improvements, which got us much closer to launching our first private testnet in Q2! For a while, it involved weekly breaking changes. Some of you gave us very useful feedback on our development pace, so now we’ll rely more on RC

[Podcast #5] Vivek on Cursive and making cryptography accessible

On the Hylé podcast, we talk about cool applications that leverage cryptography in general and zero-knowledge technology in particular, with a new guest for every episode. Vivek is a co-founder at Cursive, a team at the forefront of crypto education and design. If you prefer the written format, you can

monthly

January 2025 @ Hylé

Starting now, we’ll post monthly highlights on our blog. January 2025 was a blast, with a bunch of news product-wise and for the company as a whole! Let’s dive in!

demo

Introducing Hyleoof, a trustless and non-custodial zkAMM demo

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are at the core of DeFi. These tools, which power token swaps and liquidity provisions, can seem straightforward, but building them is a real challenge! We wanted to create a demo that would be immediately useful, so we decided to build Hyleoof, a zkAMM for Hylé.

gaming

[Podcast #4] David on Playmint and onchain games, Part 2

On the Hylé podcast, we talk about cool applications that leverage cryptography in general and zero-knowledge technology in particular, with a new guest for every episode. David is the co-founder and CEO at Playmint, a team that builds decentralized games and recently introduced the concept of playerchains to make onchain

grants

Rute's Proof of Residency with Hylé and SP1

Hylé’s grantee Rute has built a proof of residency app using signed PDFs from official Portuguese service providers.

devcon2024

Will ZK be bigger than blockchain?

At DevCon 2024’s ZK Hub, Sylve took part in a panel named: « Will ZK be bigger than blockchain? ». He spoke alongside Aayush Gupta at zkEmail, Neil Han at Reddio, and Ming Guo at ZKM, moderated by Sebastian Rodriguez from Privado. You can watch the video or read Sylve’s

gaming

[Podcast #3] David on Playmint and onchain games

On the Hylé podcast, we talk about cool applications that leverage cryptography in general and zero-knowledge technology in particular, with a new guest for every episode. David is the co-founder and CEO at Playmint, a team that builds decentralized games and recently introduced the concept of playerchains to make onchain

podcast

[Podcast #2] Kitty on Rarimo and ZK identities

On the Hylé podcast, we talk about cool applications that leverage cryptography in general and zero-knowledge technology in particular, with a new guest for every episode. Kitty works at RariLabs and is a contributor to Rarimo, a ZK identity protocol. It allows users to make not only their identities private

talks

Sylve on the House of ZK podcast

Sylve was invited to the House of ZK podcast, a podcast and media channel exploring everything ZK, from its fundamental principles to the latest advancements in the industry. There, he talked about Hylé and the future of lean blockchains! Watch the video or read our highlights below! What is preventing

talks

Sylve on Daria Strategy's podcast

Sylve was on Daria Strategy's podcast yesterday. You can watch the video or read the highlights below! The vision for Hylé is to enable everyone to benefit from the technology of provable applications, specifically zero-knowledge proofs. So, what are these? They were a very obscure research topic some

podcast

[Podcast #1] Matteo on play-by-email provable games

On the Hylé podcast, we talk about cool applications that leverage cryptography in general and zero-knowledge technology in particular, with a new guest every episode. Our guest for this first episode, Matteo, is an independent applied cryptography developer. He is also Hylé’s first grantee, and he built a play-by-email

talks

All about email proofs with vLayer, zkP2P, zkEmail and TACEO

Sylve was invited to talk about email proofs on the vlayer Twitter account, alongside: * TACEO's Ais * vLayer's Marek * zkEmail's Ayush * zkP2P's Sachin You can watch the replay of the roundtable here: Email Proofs Demystified: the No BS Debate https://t.co/74q3M2Ltq2

Hylé joins the zkBoost Consortium

We’re proud to say that Hylé has joined the zkBoost Consortium to advance proof supply chain abstraction and make building provable apps more effortless than ever before. What is the zkBoost consortium? The ZkBoost consortium is a group of 34 companies (and growing!) in the zero-knowledge tech space. We’

provable apps

What is a provable app?

Learn what provable apps are, how they work, how they compare to zkApps and why they are the future of a trustworthy Internet.