what's Shutter DAO?
Shutter DAO is the decentralized governance organization for the Shutter Network, utilizing the $SHU token to enable community voting on protocol development, keyper elections, and funding initiatives. It operates through platforms like Decent DAO, with its Ethereum contract at 0x36bD3044ab68f600f6d3e081056F34f2a58432c4, empowering token holders to steer the network's direction. Shutter Network, governed by the DAO, is a threshold encryption protocol designed for privacy and fairness in blockchain applications. It provides encryption-as-a-service to prevent malicious MEV via encrypted mempools, ensure censorship resistance, maintain voting integrity, and support fair gaming through mechanisms like simultaneous sealed moves where participants cannot see others' actions beforehand.
Shutter DAO team at EthCC hosts a running club (March 30) and presents a talk (March 31).
Team members are attending EthCC and hosting a "Threshold Encryption Running Club" event with Dappnode on March 30, 2026 at 17:00, and presenting a talk titled "Turning an EIP Into a Rallying Point for the Ecosystem" on March 31, 2026 from 11:15 to 11:35.
Deposited $1.2M USDC into an Octant Vault to generate yield for community allocation to projects growing the Shutter ecosystem.
Joined Protocol Guild's 1% Pledge program to support Ethereum core contributors.
Co-curates the Privacy Zone schedule at Parallel Society conference alongside MoneroKon, Nym, winprivacy, zano_project, DarkFiSquad, and Haven_Hn_.
PSE releases research report titled "Why Users Don't Use Privacy" covering feedback on Shielded Voting on Snapshot Labs alongside other privacy platforms including Privacy Pools, RAILGUN, Fluidkey, and Flashbots.
Encrypted mempools launch for PBS (Proposer-Builder Separation) through partnership with primev_xyz, targeting reduction in sandwich attacks, frontrunning, and censorship patterns.
Published a universal encrypted mempool architecture with Primev for PBS on Ethereum, addressing MEV and censorship issues.
Shutter's Shielded Voting receives selection for OctantApp's Best of the Best epoch 10 event running January 6-20, 2026.
Announces collaboration with Primev and schedules December 2 preview of next developments.
Team participates in Governance Day event on November 15 at 15:35, presenting State of Private Voting 2026 Report alongside zkMACI and Privacy & Scaling Explorations.
Privacy Hub Auction runs November 17-21 at Devconnect, featuring a sealed-bid auction powered by Shutter's threshold encryption in collaboration with PaddleBattles. Fireside chat with OctantApp scheduled for November 20 at Governance Geeks Hub to discuss DAOs and future of growth.
Shutter schedules presentations at Devcon Governance Day (Nov 15) and two Devconnect sessions (Nov 19) to present State of Private Voting 2026 report findings, co-presented with zkMACI and PrivacyEthereum.
Shutter collaborates with PrivacyEthereum to publish 'State of Private Voting 2026' report analyzing the current landscape of private voting on Ethereum.
Gnosis Keyper Set transition completed, expanding active keyper nodes from 5 to 8 to improve security and uptime for MEV protection on Gnosis Chain.
ShutterNetwork and SnapshotLabs brought private voting to all decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), protecting millions of participants onchain.
Added event-based decryption feature to Shutter API. Received decryption fixes in Erigon client release for Shutter integration.
Sealed-bid Request for Proposal initiative underway and progress reported on an Ethereum Improvement Proposal.
Shielded Voting on Snapshot Labs protects 881 DAOs with 5,730 proposals and 372,914 votes encrypted. Major upgrade from Snapshot and Shutter announced as coming soon.
Cointelegraph's research team publishes article analyzing encrypted mempool solution for addressing malicious MEV.
New testnet alpha enables AI-driven encrypted workflows for time-locked applications.
Encrypted mempool technology successfully operating on Gnosis Chain for past year.
Shielded Voting technology launches to protect small holder voting power through vote encryption. Presented by Loring Harkness at ETH Milano.
Presenting threshold encryption technology at ETH Prague on May 28, focusing on privacy solutions for dApps.
Proposal submitted to BNB Chain for implementing encrypted mempool technology to combat malicious MEV.