Helius acquires Light Protocol to develop Solana privacy infrastructure

Solana infrastructure company Helius acquires Light Protocol, and the Light Protocol team will develop the ZK privacy protocol on the Solana chain. Light Protocol was founded in 2021 and will launch the ZK Compression solution in 2024. Helius plans to open up its privacy infrastructure to developers in the coming months. Mert Mumtaz said that privacy will become an important foundation for blockchain to become large-scale, just like HTTPS to the Internet.