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The BlackIce project, winner of the bitcoin++ Seoul hackathon, has developed a solution for distributed Frost Silent Payments, addressing the lack of multisig and hardware wallet support. By utilizing FROST and Frostsnap hardware, BlackIce enables coordinated distributed signing through end-to-end encrypted Marmot groups, eliminating the need for a central server. This innovation allows hardware multisig wallets to pay silent-payment addresses, with a successful test transaction of 1,000 sat to a tsp1 address confirmed on Signet. The project, built on Frostsnap, marmot-ts, and Nostr, provides a secure and private payment solution, with the potential to enhance the functionality of silent payments.