{"id":622,"date":"2024-04-15T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/vitalik-buterins-100-eth-railgun-deposit-sparks-discussion\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T06:27:11","slug":"vitalik-buterins-100-eth-railgun-deposit-sparks-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/vitalik-buterins-100-eth-railgun-deposit-sparks-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin&#8217;s 100 ETH Railgun deposit sparks discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transaction was executed using Buterin\u2019s ENS-tagged wallet, vitalik.eth. Reports claimed Buterin has frequently tapped the protocol over the past six months, depositing small amounts of ETH.<\/p>\n<p>According to DefiLlama, Railgun is an EVM dapp that enables privacy features for on-chain lending and token swaps. It employs zk-SNARK, an encryption model based on zero-knowledge technology used to prove that a blockchain participant possesses an asset or data without revealing it.<\/p>\n<p>Since launching on Ethereum in January 2021, the privacy-by-default provider has amassed nearly $35 million in total value locked. Some theorized that Ethereum\u2019s co-founder wanted to speculate on ETH\u2019s ecosystem without being tracked, while others surmised that he had bills to pay.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency traded for around $1.36 following the price uptick. Shortly after, the protocol\u2019s native crypto ENS rose nearly 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transaction was executed using Buterin\u2019s ENS-tagged wallet, vitalik.eth. Reports claimed Buterin has frequently tapped the protocol over the past six months, depositing small amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}