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Confirmed hackathon winner ยท 2nd Place DeFi, Radar
darklakefi/darklake-monorepo

Darklake: a confidential-swap DEX on Solana using zk-proof (Groth16) verified swaps and concentrated liquidity pools

Confirmed Radar 2nd-place DeFi winner, but the repo is now dormant and inactive.

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Verdict

Darklake (recorded in the corpus as Blackpool) is a confidential-swap DEX combining Groth16 zk-proof verified swaps with a Uniswap v3-style concentrated-liquidity AMM on Solana. Its own corpus record confirms it took 2nd in the DeFi track at Radar for $20,000 selfCorpusEntry: Blackpool, 2nd Place DeFi at Radar, $20,000, the strongest possible winnerSimilarity signal (80/100) and the anchor behind a strong ecosystemFit score (85/100) given the real on-chain Anchor program and Circom-based ZK circuits. The niche is not empty: ConfiX, a confidential Token-2022 DEX, sits close at 0.056 , while 1st-place FxSwap and 3rd-place Encifher prove DeFi-privacy hybrids win, keeping originality mid-caution (68). Engineering is genuinely strong (78): Jest and Rust tests, four CI workflows, a modular Turborepo layout, but the README states the repo is 'no longer active,' ships a hardcoded devnet keypair, and carries a dead web-old app. Momentum is the weak spot (48): 16 stars, no commits since August 2025 despite 768 commits and 7 contributors historically GitHub metadata: 768 commits, 7 contributors, 16 stars, last commit 2025-08-20. Next move: resume maintenance and swap out the placeholder devnet config before resubmitting.

Methodologyv1.5

Closest competitors

ConfiX
Breakout 2025
6%
match

A confidential DEX on Solana using Token-2022 and native ZK cryptography for private trading and MEV protection.

FxSwap
Radar 2024Winner1st Place - Payments (Payments)
7%
match

A decentralized exchange optimized for efficient foreign exchange (Forex) trading on Solana.

Encifher
Breakout 2025Winner3rd Place - DeFi (DeFi)
5%
match

A privacy layer for Solana DeFi enabling encrypted on-chain actions and strategy execution without revealing alpha.

Solana Mixer
Breakout 2025
5%
match

A decentralized privacy mixer on Solana using SP1 zkVM to unlink deposits from withdrawals via ZK proofs.

Oblio
Cypherpunk 2025
5%
match

A confidential liquid staking platform providing privacy for staked assets and rewards.

Winner DNA

  • Solana + Anchor/Rust program stack: present

    Anchor program in Rust matches the cohort's top tech-stack shares (Anchor 25.9%, Rust 41.6%).

  • AMM/DEX primitive: present

    Concentrated-liquidity AMM matches the 11.4% AMM primitive share among winners (e.g. riverboat, reflect-protocol).

  • DeFi trader / liquidity provider target users: present

    Targets defi traders and liquidity providers, the top two target-user tags in the cohort (16.9% and 6%).

  • Stablecoin integration: missing

    Stablecoins are the top cohort primitive (16.9%) but Darklake only wires in a dummy PYUSD placeholder for localnet.

  • Oracle primitive: present

    Oracle is listed among Darklake's primitives, matching the 2nd-most-common cohort primitive (15.7% share).

  • Sustained, active multi-contributor development: missing

    768 commits and 7 contributors historically, but the README states the repo is no longer active and the last commit was August 2025.