Summary:
The Kusama Shield project is a treasury funded project that has been developing a privacy protocol for assets on Kusama, Polkadot and Paseo. Being one of the first Zero Knowledge smart contract protocol on the hub. After some time of developing, the project is in need of a code audit, as we are dealing with production systems with real peoples assets. User safety is a big priority and therefore we are asking the community to help us fund a security audit by a cherry picked talented Zero Knowledge auditor.
Proposal Total USD Amount:
56605 USD
Amount of milestones:
1
X link:
https://x.com/KusamaShield
Previous proposals:
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/631 - 99% Aye
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/509 - 89% Aye
Cost comparison:
Moonbeam by SRLabs - https://dotpal.io/community_reports/2026-Q1 - 133,692 DOT
StorageHub’s codebase Audit - 385,978 USD - https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/830
Ink 5 audit - 238,920 USD - https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1045
Zero Knowledge engineers costs 140 000 - 350 000 USD / source: https://jobcannon.io/careers/zero-knowledge-proof-engineer
The Kusama Shield project has done lots to squeeze the price without affecting the quality of the Audit.
Read full proposal here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yIEtCjgcXViHaNxKVkXYjS0UFhDVVuUsnVMMnuNC3EA/edit?usp=sharing
- What's the project's current usage? current tvl? number of users and txs?
We have soft commitments from projects, but since most larger project really insist on integrating with Audited projects.. Here is some user numbers:
Paseo: ~ 4-5000 shielded transactions
Polkadot: ~200 shielded tx on the latest pool(the v7 contracts) | ~500 swaps | offramps user we dont know
Kusama: not sure, will update once knowing
Kusama Shield is doing important zk development
Together with our SDK:
https://pypi.org/project/shielded-transfers/
https://pypi.org/project/light-poseidon-python/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kusamashield/shielded-transfers
We have build fast indexers for EVM events, been the togo place for new people wanting to build zk projects as well as pioneering Poseidon on PolkadVM.
Kusama Shield is a project that keeps people's digital money safe and private on Kusama, Polkadot, and Paseo.
Summary:
The Kusama Shield project is a treasury funded project that has been developing a privacy protocol for assets on Kusama, Polkadot and Paseo. Being one of the first Zero Knowledge smart contract protocol on the hub. After some time of developing, the project is in need of a code audit, as we are dealing with production systems with real peoples assets. User safety is a big priority and therefore we are asking the community to help us fund a security audit by a cherry picked talented Zero Knowledge auditor.
Proposal Total USD Amount:
56605 USD
Amount of milestones:
1
X link:
https://x.com/KusamaShield
Previous proposals:
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/631 - 99% Aye
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/509 - 89% Aye
Cost comparison:
Moonbeam by SRLabs - https://dotpal.io/community_reports/2026-Q1 - 133,692 DOT
StorageHub’s codebase Audit - 385,978 USD - https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/830
Ink 5 audit - 238,920 USD - https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1045
Zero Knowledge engineers costs 140 000 - 350 000 USD / source: https://jobcannon.io/careers/zero-knowledge-proof-engineer
The Kusama Shield project has done lots to squeeze the price without affecting the quality of the Audit.
Read full proposal here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yIEtCjgcXViHaNxKVkXYjS0UFhDVVuUsnVMMnuNC3EA/edit?usp=sharing
- What's the project's current usage? current tvl? number of users and txs?
We have soft commitments from projects, but since most larger project really insist on integrating with Audited projects.. Here is some user numbers:
Paseo: ~ 4-5000 shielded transactions
Polkadot: ~200 shielded tx on the latest pool(the v7 contracts) | ~500 swaps | offramps user we dont know
Kusama: not sure, will update once knowing
Kusama Shield is doing important zk development
Together with our SDK:
https://pypi.org/project/shielded-transfers/
https://pypi.org/project/light-poseidon-python/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kusamashield/shielded-transfers
We have build fast indexers for EVM events, been the togo place for new people wanting to build zk projects as well as pioneering Poseidon on PolkadVM.
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