Horizen is the most secure interoperable blockchain ecosystem supported by the largest and most decentralized multi-tiered node infrastructure in the industry.
Our Mission
Ensuring data integrity and privacy freedom by enabling real-world use cases with the most secure interoperable blockchain ecosystem. Horizen's sidechain platform focuses on scalable data privacy and enables businesses and developers to custom build their own public or private blockchains using its unique sidechain technology, Zendoo.
Our Technology
Private
Equipped with zk-SNARKs for elective privacy
Secure
Protected against 51% attacks by enhanced consensus, multi-chain block notarization, and TLS end-to-end encryption
Reliable
Powered by the largest and most decentralized multi-tiered node infrastructure in the industry
Scalable
Designed for extensive commercial usage in a fully customizable decoupled interoperable blockchain ecosystem powered by Zendoo
Sustainable Ecosystem
At Horizen, we seek to empower people and bring the world together through technology and economic incentives to generate a robust and sustainable ecosystem.
GOVERNANCE MODEL
60% to miners
20% to treasury
10% to secure node operators
10% to super node operators
Research & Development Focus
At Horizen, we seek to empower people and bring the world together through technology and economic incentives to generate a robust and sustainable ecosystem.
Organization Treasury Study
Transparency and Fairness
Our goal is to decentralize the decision-making processes for resource allocation and other substantive changes to the system.
The Horizen Improvement Proposal System ( ZenIP ) standardizes the process for suggesting major changes to the Horizen codebase and protocols. This is a key element of transparent, collaborative, and stable governance. Bringing other organizations into our ecosystem, extending decision-making authority to collaborative processes, like ZenIPs, and ultimately implementing a democratic system where every ZEN holder is a voter.
Responsible Privacy™
- Responsible Privacy™ means we offer you a choice of the privacy you would like to exercise in your activities connected to the Horizen platform. You can choose complete privacy for things like payments to friends and family. Or you can share your information with only certain people, like financial information for a mortgage. You can even let your data be public for things like yearly charitable donations.
- We believe everyone has the right to privacy. That’s why we educate about and provide access to privacy. The more that people understand and value privacy, the more it will be properly used and respected.
- We don’t condone or encourage criminal activity on our platform and believe privacy is an individual choice that should be used for the good and improvement of society and not for activities that could cause harm.
- Private means private. Horizen does not have access to any identifying information when shielded addresses are used.