Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to our global community — we're glad you're here. | From the Singularity team, we wish you a warm start to 2026, and a year filled with steady progress, meaningful wins, and new opportunities ahead. | As the new year begins, we'd like to reflect on what 2025 represented for Singularity. It was a year centered on execution and validation — marking our transition from building privacy infrastructure to enabling real, confidential on-chain trading in live market conditions. | Following the establishment of the Singularity Privacy Layer in 2024, 2025 was intentionally focused on a single objective: bringing Darkswap, our on-chain institutional darkpool, from concept to live execution. This meant supporting real users, real order flow, and delivering production-grade guarantees for confidential trading. | Thank you for being a subscriber and for your continued support throughout the year. | | Why Darkswap Exists | Public DeFi venues expose every order in the mempool — asset, size, timing, and intent — creating a structural advantage for MEV bots and front-runners. This results in slippage, signal leakage, and degraded execution quality, making public venues unsuitable for large or sophisticated trades. | Darkswap was built to address this at the protocol level. | Darkswap is an on-chain institutional darkpool that eliminates MEV, front-running, and trade leakage.
Every order — including asset, size, price, and counterparty — is encrypted and hidden from mempools and explorers, allowing traders to execute confidentially without sacrificing on-chain settlement or verifiability. | Darkswap is built on top of the Singularity Privacy Layer, which provides zero-knowledge settlement, cryptographic integrity, and optional compliance primitives. | | 2025: From Infrastructure to Execution | Throughout 2025, Singularity concentrated its resources on validating whether confidential, MEV-resistant execution could function in live, adversarial DeFi conditions. | Darkswap Milestones | Testnet Validation:
Across 11 incentivized testnet epochs (March–September 2025), Darkswap processed over 150,000 transactions from 15,000+ unique users, demonstrating sustained demand for encrypted orderbooks and protected execution. Execution-Ready Capabilities:
Delivered maker APIs for programmatic and bulk order flow and on-device Noir proof generation. Same-wallet flows remain fully permissionless, with no KYC required. Beta Mainnet Launch:
In mid-December 2025, Darkswap launched on Base Beta Mainnet, marking Singularity's most important milestone of the year. This represented the transition from experimentation to real-world confidential trading.
| Full mainnet rollout is targeted for early 2026. | | The Role of the Singularity Privacy Layer in 2025 | While Darkswap was the focus, the Singularity Privacy Layer continued to evolve — not as a parallel product, but as the execution backbone that Darkswap depends on. | Upgrades in 2025 were execution-driven: | Improved throughput and proof efficiency Increased relayer reliability and fault tolerance Expanded multi-chain support across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Horizen Deeper DeFi integrations, including Uniswap V3 and Curve, enabling private LPing, OTC settlement, and swaps
| These improvements ensured that Darkswap could operate securely, efficiently, and at scale under real market conditions. | | Security & Operational Resilience | Security remained non-negotiable throughout the year. | Throughout 2025, Singularity focused on continuous protocol hardening alongside independent third-party security reviews. All known findings were addressed prior to the Darkswap Beta Mainnet launch. The system design emphasizes minimizing trust assumptions through on-device proof generation and local note backups. Independent third-party audits are ongoing as part of the path toward full mainnet readiness.
| No major security incidents were reported across testnet or beta environments. | | Ecosystem Partnerships and Integrations | Throughout 2025, Singularity collaborated with ecosystem partners to ensure Darkswap could operate in real-world conditions — with execution strategies, liquidity access, and integrations aligned with institutional trading workflows. | Partnerships across the stack supported this effort. Ten contributed to private execution and MEV-resistant infrastructure research. Quantlytica supported execution analysis and strategy validation, while Toros informed structured product and portfolio-level use cases. Sablier enabled time-based and streaming payment primitives for operational and treasury workflows. | Horizen was a key strategic partner throughout the year. Darkswap was deployed as a flagship application on Horizen's privacy-focused L3 appchain testnet on Base, providing a live environment to validate encrypted order flow, MEV resistance, and compliance-aware confidential execution. With Horizen launching mainnet on Base in December 2025, the partnership is now moving into its next phase with deeper integrations underway. | Together, these partnerships validated confidential execution across diverse environments and reinforced Singularity's position as a foundational privacy layer for on-chain institutional trading. | | Looking Ahead | 2025 marked a major milestone for Darkswap — moving from concept to a live beta in real market conditions. In 2026, our focus expands toward scale, depth, and continued evolution across the Singularity ecosystem. | Key priorities include: | Completing Darkswap's full mainnet rollout Scaling darkpool liquidity and improving execution quality Expanding decentralized and peer-to-peer matching mechanisms Integrating additional chains, including full Horizen mainnet support
| Beyond these efforts, Singularity will continue advancing its Privacy Layer, exploring new confidential DeFi and institutional workflows, and forming strategic partnerships that extend privacy-preserving execution across on-chain finance. | Our mission remains unchanged: to enable liquid funds, venture funds, and institutions to maintain discretion and confidentiality over their on-chain strategies in a compliant manner — and to make confidential execution a standard primitive of on-chain finance. | Thank you for being part of Singularity's journey in 2025. We're excited to continue building in 2026. | | Integrations, partners, investors, and users are all welcome to connect with the team. | Thank you for reading our 2025 recap. We're excited to build the next chapter together in 2026! 🎇 | 🟢 The Singularity team |
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