Privacy protocol for public chains. Zpoken carried Panther Protocol's deployment to Base under a DAO-approved grant — accepted unanimously — with dApp work ongoing.
Panther Protocol is a privacy protocol for public chains — shielded pools with compliance rails, live on Polygon. The DAO wanted Panther on Base. Deploying a privacy protocol to a new network is not a redeploy-and-hope exercise: pool contracts, cryptographic and economic parameters, compliance integrations, and the dApp all have to arrive intact, verifiable, and governable by the DAO that owns them — not by the contractor who shipped them.
The engagement ran through Panther's own governance, end to end: Zpoken's grant proposal was accepted by PantherDAO unanimously — PIP-29, November 2025, 9.5M ZKP for, zero against — and the deployment was activated by a second unanimous vote (PIP-30, January 2026). Panther's blog names Zpoken a development partner; the DAO's monthly dev planning tracks the work in the open.
Everything needed to control the deployment — configs, scripts, verification, runbook, parameter templates — was delivered open-source. The DAO, not the contractor, holds the ability to audit, reproduce, and redeploy.
Per the accepted proposal, Base runs the same cryptographic, economic, and compliance parameters live on Polygon; only the token whitelist was adapted to the network — nine assets, verified on Basescan before the activation vote.
Proposal → unanimous acceptance → deployment → source verification → separate activation vote. The chain of custody is public at every step: the forum thread, two Snapshot votes, and a verified contract.
Live and ongoing. PantherPoolV1 was deployed to Base in December 2025 and has been live since its January 2026 activation; dApp work and deployment support continue — the DAO's own dev planning reads "Supporting ZPOKEN on Base Deployment."
Engagement led by Mike Yezhov and Anton Yezhov.
Panther's Base deployment ran through the DAO's own governance, end to end — proposal, unanimous vote, verified contract, all in public.
The first step is a 30-minute call with a founder. Shapes, discovery, and terms → /engagement