# Shade as privacy liquidity hub - long-term proposal

**URL:** <https://forum.shadeprotocol.io/t/shade-as-privacy-liquidity-hub-long-term-proposal/383>\
**Category:** Shade Protocol\
**Tags:** strategy\
**Created:** [November 21, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.shadeprotocol.io/t/shade-as-privacy-liquidity-hub-long-term-proposal/383 "2023-11-21T14:11:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.shadeprotocol.io/t/shade-as-privacy-liquidity-hub-long-term-proposal/383/1 "2023-11-21T14:11:18Z")

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Hi, there are a lot of great privacy projects ( primarily building infrastructure like VPNs, mixers, … ) in the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond, this proposal serves as a roadmap for creating a financial environment for these assets.

Goals:

1. to improve the financial capability, availability and token utility of these protocols and thereby facilitate their growth

2. Increase awareness and utility of the Shade/Secret Network for the privacy community ( creating a liquidity hub for the privacy crypto ecosystem )

3. Increase the utility of SILK as a payment medium

Plan:

1. Create more liquidity with privacy protocol tokens  
IBC : ( JKL, dVPN, NYM, DEC,… )  
Non-IBC ( XMR, ZEC, NAV, … ) - not core ( need to create a bridge = high cost )  
_Ideally through a liquidity match_

2. Create LSDs for privacy protocol tokens ( Shade = Dark Stride )

- JKL
- dVPN
- NYM ( so far 0% APR, staking is in the preparation phase )  
other tokens either don’t exist or have too small MC

1. SILK integration into privacy protocols such as [NYM](https://nymtech.net/) or Jackal Protocol for service payments