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Heliax
Heliax is a public goods lab that creates, researches, and builds open-source protocols and mechanisms designed to serve humanity's everyday needs. They focus on developing privacy-preserving systems and empowering individual sovereignty, with projects in cryptography, distributed systems, and programming languages.
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Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026
Description
Heliax is a public goods lab composed of creators, researchers, and builders focused on deploying open-source protocols and mechanisms. They aim to create alternatives to existing exploitative paradigms by constructing technology that empowers individual sovereignty and privacy. The company is vertically integrated, handling everything from research to product development. Their work is founded on experience in distributed systems, programming language theory, and zero-knowledge cryptography. They have contributed to layer-1 protocols like Cosmos and Tezos and designed cross-chain communication protocols such as IBC. Their projects include Anoma, a privacy-preserving protocol for decentralized counterparty discovery, and various cryptography and programming language tools like MASP, Juvix, and Typhon.Technology & Skills
ZKSNARK
HASH FUNCTION
THRESHOLD ENCRYPTION
PROTOCOL DESIGN
HALO2
ABSTRACT ALGEBRA
ZKVM
PROTOCOL-ANALYSIS
ZK-STARK
RISC0
DKG
ZKSTARK
COMPLEXITY THEORY
DISTRIBUTED KEY GENERATION
ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF
THRESHOLD CRYPTOGRAPHY
MULTI-PARTY PROTOCOL
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
ARKWORKS
ELLIPTIC CURVE
DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOL
OPERATING SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE