Resources

This page links to various resources that are helpful for working with and understanding Penumbra.

• The primary communication hub is our Discord (opens in a new tab); click the link to join the discussion there.

For developers

• The protocol specification is rendered at protocol.penumbra.zone (opens in a new tab).
• The API documentation is rendered at rustdoc.penumbra.zone (opens in a new tab).
• The protobuf documentation is rendered at buf.build/penumbra-zone/penumbra (opens in a new tab).

Talks and presentations

These talks were given at various conferences and events, describing different aspects of the Penumbra ecosystem.

• Cosmos Spaces presents: Decoded with Penumbra (opens in a new tab)
• Privacy Tech: The Undervalued Layer for Adoption (opens in a new tab)
• DeCC Day X Shielding Summit: Penumbra and the Dream of Electronic Cash (opens in a new tab)
• Women in Privacy panel x Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress (opens in a new tab)
• DevCon 2022: Building a Private DEX with ZKPs and Threshold Cryptography (opens in a new tab)
• ZK8: How to build a private DEX (opens in a new tab)
• ZK8: Tiered Merkle Topiary in Rust (opens in a new tab)
• ZK Whiteboard Session: ZK Swaps (opens in a new tab)
• MEV Day: Minimizing MEV with sealed-input batch swaps (opens in a new tab)
• Nebular Summit: Creating Performant Interchain Privacy At Scale (opens in a new tab)
• Interchain FM: Penumbra, Zero-Knowledge Decentralized Exchange (opens in a new tab)