ZeroLink primary sources
Reviewed: 2026-05-15 UTC
Reference repository / canonical framework text
- https://github.com/nopara73/ZeroLink
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nopara73/ZeroLink/master/README.md
- Best source for the protocol’s own framing.
- Used to confirm that ZeroLink defines a pre-mix wallet, a post-mix wallet, and a preferred Chaumian CoinJoin mixing technique; that it treats privacy as a transaction-chain and network-layer problem; that it requires common denominations and anonymity-network use; and that the repository now marks the design as obsolete in favor of WabiSabi.
Launch / overview post by nopara73
- https://nopara73.medium.com/introducing-zerolink-the-bitcoin-fungibility-framework-dc5338086198
- Best concise source for the public motivation and high-level design story.
- Used to confirm the stated goal of
fully anonymousBitcoin use, the framing of wallet privacy as more than a single mixing transaction, the role of pre-mix versus post-mix wallets, and the explanation of Chaumian CoinJoin as a centralized-but-untrusted coordinator flow.
Main takeaways from this pass
- ZeroLink is best understood as a wallet-privacy framework wrapped around Chaumian CoinJoin, not just as a historical paper about one mix transaction.
- The key lower-layer split is pre-mix wallet preparation, coordinator-mediated blind-signature CoinJoin, and strict post-mix wallet behavior; privacy depends on all three.
- Common denominations, multiple rounds, and anonymity-network communication are treated as structural parts of privacy rather than optional operational advice.
- ZeroLink is historically important because later systems clearly branch away from it: Whirlpool preserves much of the equal-denomination and wallet-discipline framing, while WabiSabi replaces its fixed-pool logic with variable-amount anonymous credentials.