Silent Protocol Marks One Year on Ethereum Mainnet: Expands Access and Increases Transactional Pool Limits

Silent Protocol, May 2026 — Silent Protocol, the privacy infrastructure layer for Ethereum, today announced it is increasing its transactional pool limits and onboarding new users into the protocol, marking the one-year anniversary of its mainnet deployment.

Since going live in May 2025, Silent Protocol has operated as one of the most technically ambitious privacy systems on Ethereum—delivering zero-knowledge privacy without requiring users to leave the Ethereum ecosystem or sacrifice composability.

Four Years of Building: What Silent Has Solved

Silent Protocol began development in late 2020 and early 2021. After nearly four years of dedicated research and engineering, the protocol went live on Ethereum mainnet around May 2025. Over this period, Silent has delivered solutions to three fundamental challenges in on-chain privacy:

1. Composable Privacy — Solving the Problem of “State Denial”

Through its 0Dapps framework, Silent Protocol introduced composable 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 confidentiality. This solves what the team calls “State Denial”—the inability of traditional privacy systems to interact with on-chain state without exposing user identity.

2. The Relayer Problem — Solved via 0VM

0VM, Silent’s general-purpose zero-knowledge computing layer, introduced Anonymous Verification—a cryptographic mechanism that gives relayers a guarantee of payment without ever learning the user’s identity. This eliminates the broken economics that plagued earlier relayer models, where relayers either required trust assumptions or exposed sender metadata through gas payments.

3. The First Secure Value Transfer Layer — via Ghost Layer

Ghost Layer, powered by 0VM, is designed as a Layer 1.5 on Ethereum—the first secure value-transfer layer built under the EZEE framework. Its flagship feature, “TransferToNonSilent,” allows users to send shielded balances to any Ethereum address confidentially. The recipient can claim the funds later without any prior interaction with the Silent Protocol. This makes privacy universal rather than opt-in—a fundamental departure from UTXO mixers or isolated privacy chains.

What Users Can Do Today

With the expansion of transactional pool limits and new user onboarding, Silent Protocol is now accessible at app.silentprotocol.org. Users can:

• Register, deposit, and earn: Depositors earn protocol yield through Silent’s Protocol Owned Yield (POY) mechanism, measured in Shhh token emission rates—currently offering up to 50% APY. Logistically, depositors earn Ghost tokens, which can then be staked to earn Shhh.
• Top up 0VM and transact privately: Users can fund their 0VM balance with ETH, which acts as invisible gas fees. This enables 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 shielded funds to any externally owned account, expanding the privacy domain beyond the Silent ecosystem.

About Silent Protocol

Silent Protocol is building the privacy backbone for Ethereum. Its technology stack— anchored by 0VM and Ghost Layer—enables confidential, scalable, and user-owned on- chain interactions without sacrificing decentralization or composability. Backed by Sora Ventures, Zee Prime, and Hypersphere, Silent Protocol is executing on a singular mission: to encrypt Ethereum.

Website: silentprotocol.org App: app.silentprotocol.org