Silent Protocol, May 2026 — Silent Protocol, the privacy infrastructure layer for Ethereum, today announced that it is increasing its transaction pool limits and onboarding new users to the protocol, marking the one-year anniversary of its mainnet deployment.
Since its launch in May 2025, Silent Protocol has operated as one of the most technically ambitious privacy systems on Ethereum—providing zero-knowledge privacy without requiring users to leave the Ethereum ecosystem or sacrificing composability.
Four years of development: what Silent solved
Silent Protocol began development in late 2020 and early 2021. After nearly four years of dedicated research and engineering, the protocol became operational on the Ethereum mainnet around May 2025. During this time, Silent has provided solutions to three fundamental on-chain privacy challenges:
- Composite Privacy — Fixing the “state denial” issue
Via its 0Dapps framework, Silent Protocol introduced composite privacy to Ethereum. Unlike isolated privacy pools that fragment liquidity and break DeFi composability, 0Dapps allow users to interact with existing Ethereum applications while maintaining privacy. This addresses what the team calls “state denial”—the inability of traditional privacy systems to interact with on-chain state without exposing the user’s identity.
- The Relay problem — Solved via 0VM
0VM, Silent's versatile zero-knowledge computing layer, introduced Anonymous Verification—a cryptographic mechanism that guarantees relayers payment without ever revealing the user's identity. This eliminates the broken economics that plagued previous relay models, where relays either required trust assumptions or exposed sender metadata via gas fees.
- The first layer of secure value transfer — via Ghost Layer
Ghost Layer, powered by 0VM, is designed as layer 1.5 on Ethereum—the first secure value transfer layer built under the EZEE framework. Its flagship feature, “TransferToNonSilent,” allows users to send protected balances to any Ethereum address confidentially. The recipient can claim the funds later without prior interaction with the Silent Protocol. This makes privacy universal rather than optional—a fundamental departure from UTXO mixers or isolated privacy chains.
What users can do today
With the expansion of transaction pool limits and the onboarding of new users, Silent Protocol is now accessible to app.silentprotocol.org. Users can:
- Register, deposit and win: Depositors earn protocol yields through Silent's Protocol Owned Yield (POY) mechanism, measured in Shhh token issuance rates—currently offering up to 50% APY. In practice, depositors earn Ghost tokens, which can then be staked to earn Shhh.
- Reload 0VM and perform private transactions: Users can fund their 0VM balance with ETH, which acts as an invisible gas fee. This allows private transfers and payments within the Ghost Layer—completely invisible on-chain.
- Transfer to any Ethereum address: Using the Ghost Layer's TransferToNonSilent feature, users can send protected funds to any externally owned account, extending the realm of privacy beyond the Silent ecosystem.
About Silent Protocol
Silent Protocol builds the privacy backbone for Ethereum. Its technology stack—anchored by 0VM and Ghost Layer—enables confidential, scalable, user-owned on-chain interactions without sacrificing decentralization or composability. Backed by Sora Ventures, Zee Prime and Hypersphere, Silent Protocol pursues a unique mission: to encrypt Ethereum.
Website: silentprotocol.org Application : app.silentprotocol.org
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