The Telos Privacy Layer Trusted Setup Ceremony Has Officially Begun

Today marks a major milestone for the Telos ecosystem and for the future of privacy-preserving blockchain technology. We are officially launching the Trusted Setup Ceremony for the Telos Privacy Layer, the cryptographic process required before activating private multi-asset accounts and shielded transactions on Telos.

This ceremony ensures that no single party, organization, or developer, including Telos itself, can ever compromise the privacy guarantees of the system. Once complete, the resulting parameters will underpin the zero-knowledge (ZK) circuits that enable private transfers, delegated deposits, and privacy-preserving interactions across the network.

Built on One of the Most Secure Setups in the Industry

Telos is building on a proven foundation.

We inherit the security of the well-known Ethereum Perpetual Powers of Tau ceremony, one of the most rigorously examined and community-driven MPC ceremonies ever completed, featuring contributions from 86 independent participants.

This same setup has been trusted by established ZK privacy ecosystems, including Railgun. Under MPC rules, only one honest contributor is required for the final output to be secure, giving the Telos Privacy Layer an exceptionally strong starting point.

Our own ceremony extends that security with new contributions from trusted members of the Telos community, engineers, researchers, and independent privacy advocates.

A Sequential, Multi-Party Process

The ceremony takes place in a strict progression:

1. A participant performs a computation and adds their entropy.
2. Their output becomes the input for the next participant.
3. Each new contribution increases the overall security of the final parameters.

This model ensures the parameters cannot be reconstructed or exploited by any single entity, now or in the future.

Two-Phase Ceremony Structure

Phase 1: Powers of Tau

We extend the security of the previous Ethereum ceremony by adding additional contributors from the Telos ecosystem.

Phase 2: Circuit Parameter Generation

Participants inject entropy into each of the ZK circuits that will power private accounts, shielded transfers, and delegated deposits on the Telos Privacy Layer.

Both phases must be completed before the final verification keys are generated and the privacy system is activated on mainnet.

Who Can Participate?

Trusted members of the Telos Foundation and Protofire are already contributing. We are also inviting reliable and technically capable participants such as active block producers and community members.

To take part in the ceremony, contributors should have access to:

• A Linux machine with at least 8 CPU cores
• 8 GB or more RAM
• 150 GB of available storage for ceremony data
• A clean, isolated environment free from unnecessary background software
• The ability to follow basic operational security best practices

If you are a researcher, engineer, privacy advocate, or security-focused community member and would like to contribute, please reach out via Telegram or contact@telos.net.

Those interested in participating or learning more about the ceremony should join the discussion with Rafael from Protofire.

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What Comes Next

Once the ceremony is complete, Telos will activate:

• Private multi-asset accounts offering users quantum hardened security
• Shielded value transfers
• High-performance, L1-integrated private computation
• A privacy wallet experience that is best in class

This will help position Telos as one of the most capable and forward-looking privacy platforms in the industry, designed for mass adoption, developer accessibility, and long-term security.

The ceremony is now underway.

Thank you to everyone contributing to the future of private crypto on Telos.

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