Big shoutout to every builder who showed up and shipped. You proved something important: privacy doesn't have to be complicated.
With Vibe Coding, anyone can turn their ideas ideas into reality.
Here's our top 3 entries👇
🥇 1st Place: Santa vs Grinch Built by @OdinBor57812303 🥈 2nd Place: Santa Coin Run Built by @28119110322a 🥉 3rd Place: Christmas Snake Game Built by @kagurakagura2_8
With more challenges coming in 2026, get ready! Visit https://stay.coti.io/
COTI Earn Season 3 Is Live. Start Earning Rewards!
Today, we’re excited to unveil COTI Earn Season 3 — Momentum! 👉 Visit earn.coti.io to start earning!
With COTI Season 3, we’re continuing all of your favorite ways to earn and adding new missions with our COTI ecosystem partners. Season 3 Momentum is all about growing network activity and liquidity across the COTI ecosystem.
COTI Earn is the loyalty platform for COTI that mints real, liquid rewards, called Token Points (TPS), directly to your wallet every 24 hours. Every Token Point (TPS) is on-chain, verifiable, and redeemable for real $COTI at the end of the season.
The easiest way to earn? Simply hold USDC on the COTI Network to earn the equivalent of 50%+ APY. See earn.coti.io for the latest APY rate.
Season 3 is designed to scale and bring meaningful engagement across the COTI ecosystem through new missions, expanded partnerships, and a longer season. Here’s everything you need to know!
Season 003 at a Glance
Total Rewards: 15 million $COTI
Season Duration: 12 weeks
Rewards Format: Daily-minted Token Points (TPS)
Claim: Convert TPS to $COTI at the end of the season OR Hold to stack Bonus tokens.
👉 Visit earn.coti.io to start earning!
What’s New This Season?
We’re excited to announce NEW partnership-based earn activities this season, with the addition of tasks on Crafter, ZNS!
Create your own NFT on Crafter — 100 TPS
Mint your .coti domain on ZNS — 1,000 TPS
NEW: Mint your .COTI domain on ZNS
Create your on-chain identity on COTI in just a few steps:1️⃣ Click “Connect Wallet”2️⃣ Choose your .coti domain name3️⃣ Mint your domain
IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure to use a wallet that has already interacted with COTI Earn to receive TPS.👉 Mint your .coti domain here:
NEW: Launch your NFT on Crafter
➡ ️ Visit crafter-app.io✅ Select ‘Your Solutions’ > Single NFT / Collection🔌 Connect your Wallet📜 Follow the instructions on the modules🎨 For the Single NFT, Go to your Dashboard📑 Go to the detail of your contract and mint your NFT
Ongoing COTI Earn Missions
Our core Earn missions are returning for Season 3 so you can continue to earn seamlessly:
Hold USDC, BTC, or ETH on the COTI Network
The easiest way to earn! TPS dropped direct to your wallet, equivalent to 50%+ APY. *See stay.coti.io for the latest APY, updating daily.
To be eligible just hold USDC, BTC or ETH on COTI to earn daily TPS
Hold USDC, BTC or ETH on COTI to earn daily TPS
Use Hyperlane Nexus Bridge to convert USDC, BTC, or ETH on the COTI Network
Deposit COTI or gCOTI into the Treasury
Visit https://treasury.coti.io/
Navigate to ‘Enter Treasury’
Connect your Wallet (COTI Network)
Navigate to ‘Deposit Now’
‘Add funds’
TPS are awarded every 24 hours
Learn How to deposit to the Treasury
Depositing USDC into PriveX
Visit prvx.io
‘Create Account’
Connect your Wallet
Navigate to ‘Overview’
‘Add funds’ to either Spot or Futures
Keep deposit in place for 24 hours to earn TPS
IMPORTANT NOTE: To be eligible USDC must be on COTI Network (USDC-e). To transfer USDC use the Hyperlane Nexus Bridge.
Deploying BTC, ETH, COTI, or gCOTI into Carbon DeFi
To be eligible, open liquidity positions on Carbon DeFi with any of the stated pairs to earn daily TPS:
Select ‘COTI Network’
‘Connect Wallet’
Navigate to ‘Trade’
Select the desired pair
Deploy funds to Open Liquidity Position
Keep position open for 24 hours to start earning TPSUse MetaMask to obtain COTI and convert to COTI V2 on COTI Bridge.
Stake COTI on Accumulated Finance
Visit Accumulated Finance
Connect your wallet on COTI Network
Stake stCOTI to start earning rewards.
You will receive wstCOTI that accumulates and automatically compounds stCOTI staking rewards.
Deposit wstCOTI into the lending pool
If you’re already active in the ecosystem or participated in previous Seasons, you’re already earning and TPS will continue to flow to your wallet every 24 hours.
Loyalty Boosts: Multi-Season Rollover Rewards
If you hold tokens throughout seasons you will qualify for bonus multipliers which will be automatically dropped to you at checkpoints at the end of each season.
The bonus for holding TPS throughout additional seasons will drop over time be as follows:1 Season = 15% bonus2 Seasons = 10% bonus3 Seasons = 5% bonus4 Season = 0% bonus
Holding TPS for three additional seasons will therefore earn the holder 30% bonus in total (15 + 10 + 5).
This system is designed to reward long-term participants while keeping rewards fair, transparent, and fully on-chain.
How It Works
If you hold TPS from previous seasons that you haven’t converted to COTI, for example TPS001, your bonus TPS will be dropped to you automatically at the seasons end checkpoint.
NOTE: These bonus TPS will appear as TPS002 in your wallet.
You can convert your TPS into $COTI at any time through the ‘Claim’ process. You will no longer hold TPS and you will cease to earn bonus TPS.
Multi-season rollover rewards will continue across all upcoming seasons until further notice.
Note: It is possible to convert TPS into COTI from a specific season which will remove eligibility for that season’s rollover bonus, but does not affect others rollover bonuses.
Who is COTI Earn for?
Whether you’re a DeFi user, long-term holder, referrer, or ecosystem advocate, Season 003: Momentum is for you.
Passive Holders: DeFi Users & Long-Term HoldersUsers can participate in COTI Earn by simply holding assets in a non-custodial wallet throughout the season, and generate meaningful TPS rewards. Often over 50% APY. See COTI Earn for daily APY updates.
Ecosystem Participants: Liquidity Providers & TradersUsers who actively deposit assets into partner applications like PriveX, Carbon DeFi or Accumulate Finance can increase their rewards. By contributing liquidity or executing trades, participants may earn a larger share of daily Token Point distribution.
Committed COTI Holder: Stakers & Multi-Season LoyalistsHolders who stake $COTI in the Treasury earn treasury rewards, and additional benefit from accruing TPS, reinforcing long-term alignment with the network.
Mission Explorer: Creators, Builders & Community ContributorsCOTI Earn rewards exploration. Users who complete on-chain missions, participate in social tasks, or engage with partner features can unlock additional rewards, incentivising creativity, experimentation, and community growth.
Refer Your Friends to Earn
One of the easiest and best ways to grow your rewards is to refer your friends! Earn the equivalent of 5% of your referrals’ TPS balance, with no limit on referrals and no ceiling on rewards. By far one of the best ways to grow your rewards, climb the leaderboard, and compound your advantage!
For example: Refer 3 friends who each earn 30,000 TPS over the course of a season through normal activity (holding, swapping, staking), and you receive 4,500 TPS direct to your wallet. If your 3 friends are super active and earn 100,000 TPS each, you’ll get 15,000 TPS.
Season 3 Schedule
Season 3 Momentum is now officially open!Season 3 will close on 7th April at 12:00 pm UTC.
We’ve extended the length of Season 3, giving users more time to stack TPS.
At the end of the Season, you’ll be able to convert your Token Points into claimable $COTI, distributed directly to your wallet or choose to hold for some great bonuses.
It’s time to join COTI Earn Season 3!
👉 Visit earn.coti.io to start earning!
Help us build momentum throughout the season and grow the ecosystem!
Stay COTI.
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🎉 Season 3: Momentum is LIVE with 15M $COTI in rewards 🔗 https://earn.coti.io
The next phase of COTI Earn begins now with new missions, more activity, and more ways to earn 💸
The easiest way to earn? Simply hold USDC, BTC, or ETH on the COTI Network to earn over 50%+ APY. Check earn.coti.io for the latest APY, updating daily.
What’s new in Season 3? New partner tasks! We're excited to be working with Crafter and ZNS. 🌐 Mint your .COTI domain on @ZNSConnect 🚀 Launch your own NFT on @crafter_app
✨New Multi-Season Rollover Rewards Hold TPS across seasons to earn bonus multipliers! 1 season - 15% 2 seasons - 10% 3 seasons - 5%
Bonus TPS are dropped automatically to qualifying wallets. Users do not need to do anything.
Simple actions earn rewards. COTI Earn tracks real on-chain activity and mints Token Points (TPS) daily, redeemable for $COTI at season’s end.
Let's go 🚀 Read more: https://cotinetwork.medium.com/coti-earn-season-3-is-live-start-earning-rewards-196ae6f7a486
Get the full story 👉 https://medium.com/@cotinetwork/privacy-meets-regulation-coti-and-zoniqx-partner-to-advance-institutional-grade-rwa-tokenization-2dbe0b21e9e9
Privacy Meets Regulation: COTI and Zoniqx Partner to Advance Institutional-grade RWA Tokenization
We’re excited to announce COTI’s newest partners Zoniqx, the Silicon Valley fintech leader redefining real-world asset (RWA) tokenization.
Through this partnership, COTI will integrate its programmable privacy technology into Zoniqx’s institutional-grade RWA tokenization infrastructure, enabling fully compliant, end-to-end, privacy-preserving asset workflows on-chain.
Our first joint initiative will be to bring the world’s first privacy-enabled RWA assets on-chain, creating a secure and compliant on-ramp to the multi-trillion-dollar RWA economy.
Streamlined Tokenized Assets with Zoniqx
Zoniqx delivers institutional-grade, compliance-native RWA tokenization infrastructure designed to power the full lifecycle of regulated assets across multiple jurisdictions and chains. As the operating infrastructure for tokenized RWAs, Zoniqx removes fragmentation by embedding compliance at the token level, ensuring interoperability, cross-chain standards, and real-time regulatory alignment.
Zoniqx supports the tokenization of equity, debt, funds, real estate, and energy assets, while enforcing KYC, KYB, accreditation requirements, and jurisdiction-specific regulations through smart contract-integrated compliance.
Beyond issuance, Zoniqx enables distribution, liquidity, and secondary market access through institutional rails, broker-dealers, exchanges, DeFi connectivity, and fiat-to-crypto settlement capabilities, helping institutions confidently scale tokenized asset programs.
Powering Privacy for Regulated RWAs
We’re embedding COTI’s privacy layer, powered by Garbled Circuits, directly into Zoniqx’s Tokenization Platform as a Service. COTI’s GC Layer is up to 3,000x faster than alternatives, 250x lighter, fully EVM compatible, and cost-effective and scalable enough to meet institutional demands.
This integration addresses the key challenge in tokenized RWAs: Protecting sensitive financial data on public blockchains.
COTI’s programmable privacy will enable fully-customizable confidentiality needed for institutions and enterprises, while maintaining compliance.
Confidential issuance, transfers, and settlements with end-to-end encryption.
Privacy-focused compliance workflows for issuers and investors.
Selective disclosure to meet regs while protecting sensitive data.
We’ll start with a pilot program to launch the first privacy RWAs, followed by on-boarding key enterprises and institutions to launch on our shared infrastructure.
Why This Matters
The RWA market is estimated to hit $30-trillion by next year, with only $500 billion tokenized. Institutions will not move trillions in bonds, real estate, private credit, and repos on-chain without end-to-end privacy & confidentiality.
Together, COTI and Zoniqx enable trillions in assets from around the globe to move on-chain. Including providing the secure privacy MiCA/SEC standards, blending TradFi scale with Web3 speed.
“For real-world assets to scale on-chain, privacy and compliance must be first-class primitives, not afterthoughts. Partnering with COTI allows us to bring privacy-preserving infrastructure to regulated tokenization, enabling institutions to confidently move real value on-chain.” Prasanth Kalangi, Founder and CEO of Zoniqx.
“Our core focus is to make privacy programmable, scalable, and compliant. Partnering with Zoniqx allows us to apply COTI’s pro-performance technology directly to institutional-grade RWA tokenization, where protecting sensitive financial data is essential for adoption.” Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI
About COTI
COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI. Learn more at https://coti.io/
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We’re pleased to announce that COTI Mainnet will undergo the next step in its Helium network upgrade, estimated to occur on January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC. The Helium upgrade will further strengthen COTI’s infrastructure and performance for real-world privacy use cases. Including, improving the network’s ability to run confidential logic while keeping sensitive data protected. With Helium, COTI furthers itself as the fastest, lightest weight and highest-performing privacy chain in the world.
The upgrade will include a hardfork, and automatically take place at the protocol level at block 5,098,638, No action is required from end users, wallets, balances, and normal network usage are expected to continue seamlessly. To learn more visit: docs.coti.io and GitHub.
What’s included in the upgrade?
v1.2.0 introduces the Helium protocol fork and major enhancements across COTI’s high-performance private computation stack, focused on three priorities: more expressive confidential logic, improved arithmetic correctness, and better developer visibility.
Improved performance of arithmetic circuits
Helium delivers updated multiplication and division circuit implementations, with refinements designed to improve both correctness and increase performance. Pricing parameters for MPC computation are also adjusted to reflect updated computation cost.
Expanded application support
To enable more advanced applications to be built on COTI, Helium adds native support for 128-bit and 256-bit arithmetic, aligned across execution and private computation layers. This unlocks a broader range of confidential use cases, that depend on larger or more precise values, for example DeFi, to take advantage of COTI’s scalable infrastructure.
New trace/debug tooling for private computation
Helium introduces optional trace/debug capabilities for MPC operations. This feature is disabled by default and intended for development and testing, helping builders better understand and troubleshoot confidential execution flows.
Compatibility fix for Proxy Contract patterns
The release includes a fix to validateCipherText to avoid checking the caller’s nesting level, enabling use with Proxy Contracts.
No action required (for users)
As with prior upgrades, end users and token holders don’t need to take any action. The network upgrade is designed to be seamless and non-disruptive for everyday activity.
Why Helium matters
Privacy enables real applications to scalably process sensitive data that can remain confidential, while ensuring support for advanced logic and functionality.
COTI’s Helium upgrade moves our mission forward of being the fastest and most cost-effective chain for builders, enterprises and institutions:
Builders can run more complex private logic reliably, without workarounds or limitations.
Confidential DeFi, RWAs, and enterprise apps can handle large values and real financial primitives safely at scale.
Teams spend less time debugging private execution and more time shipping production-ready applications.
In other words: more functionality, better reliability, and a smoother path for builders.
Looking forward
Helium is another deliberate step toward COTI’s long-term vision: a network where confidential computation is practical, scalable, and ready for mainstream use cases.
We’ll continue to ship upgrades that strengthen the core infrastructure, to ensure COTI remains the fastest and most cost-effective chain to meet the needs of developers, enterprise partners, and users building the next generation of privacy-preserving applications.
Stay tuned for further updates, and as always, Stay COTI.
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COTI's Mainnet "Helium" upgrade is almost here! ⏳ Just 24 hours to go!
What does it mean for COTI? ✅ Major unlock for confidential DeFi ✅ Native 128-bit & 256-bit support ✅ Faster, more reliable private computation ✅ Improved tooling for builders 🔒 No user action required
🗓 Sunday 11th January @ 12:00 PM UTC 🔗 https://cotinetwork.medium.com/cotis-helium-mainnet-upgrade-high-performance-private-computation-2519f542a61e
The COTI Show is out: https://youtu.be/qupWNm6gIQY
Your monthly recap from COTI core team members.
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