初创公司尽调
尽调报告 Cybersecurity / privacy-preserving computation Series B 2026-10-10

Zama

Zama 仍是基于 FHE 的机密区块链基础设施中公开信息最充分的领先者,但经验证的经常性收入、代币经济学和可组合性风险,仍让其估值领先于现有证明。

Zama 是公开市场上领先的 FHE 基础设施公司,服务于机密区块链工作负载;但当前估值仍跑在经核实的经常性现金收入前面,可组合性风险也让投资判断只能停留在继续研究。

覆盖范围与披露说明

本次刷新于 2026-10-10。公开融资、估值和员工人数仍部分取决于来源,因此报告采用最新经核实的披露,同时保留经审计收入、毛利率、客户集中度及法律监管流程方面尚未解决的缺口。

封面要素

成立时间 01
2020 year [CO001]
最近一轮融资 02
$57M Series B USD [CI011]
累计融资 04
$150M+ USD [CI011]
员工数 05
251 employees [CV014]

公司概况

Zama 是一家总部位于巴黎的密码学公司,构建开源全同态加密基础设施,服务于机密智能合约、隐私保护型区块链工作流及相邻的 AI 用例。公司将 TFHE-rs 和 fheVM 等开发者工具与协议集成、企业授权及代币关联商业化结合起来,但经常性现金收入和利润率结构仍披露不足。

官网
zama.ai
成立时间
2020-01-01
创始人
Dr. Rand Hindi, Dr. Pascal Paillier
创立地点
Paris, France
总部
Paris, France
产品
开源 FHE 基础设施,包括 TFHE-rs 和 fheVM,用于兼容 EVM 的机密智能合约及加密数据上的隐私保护计算。
客户
区块链协议、DeFi 开发者、数字资产基础设施提供商,以及对隐私敏感的企业或 AI 工作负载。
商业模式
开源开发者工具结合企业授权、协议费用和商业集成;部分合同以代币计价,而非完全以法币计价。
阶段
Series B
融资情况
2025 年 6 月完成 B 轮融资,投后估值 $1.0B,累计股权融资超过 $150M。
[CO001, CO002, CO003, CI011, CO005]

执行摘要

主要优势

  • FHE 基础设施处于品类领先位置,配有开源工具链和兼容 EVM 的机密执行能力。
  • 强劲的风险投资支持和独角兽地位,为多年研究与商业化提供了现金跑道。
  • 不断增加的协议与企业集成,说明开发者和客户确有兴趣。

主要风险

  • 经审计的经常性收入、毛利率和客户集中度仍未披露。
  • 中心化稳定币和法院命令导致的可组合性冻结,可能扰乱机密包装层。
  • 与代币挂钩的变现方式以及对硬件加速的依赖,让现金转化仍不确定。

未决问题

  • 经核实的经审计收入、ARR 和现金回款数据。
  • 机密运营的毛利率、计算成本和协议单位经济性。
  • 客户集中度、合同结构,以及代币与法币支付的拆分数据。
  • 评估稀释和潜在抛压所需的股权结构表、金库及代币 / 股权互动细节。

目录

Chapter 01

01公司概况

1.1 公司身份、创立背景与核心使命

Zama 成立于 2020 年,总部位于法国巴黎,是一家专注密码学的深科技公司,致力于让全同态加密在 web3 和机器学习工作负载中真正落地 [CO001]。同态加密可以直接对加密数据计算,无需中途解密,缓解了公开区块链透明度、用户隐私和机构合规要求之间长期存在的矛盾 [CO014]。Zama 不另建竞争性的 Layer-1 区块链,而是通过开源 TFHE-rs 库和 fhEVM 框架,严格定位为横向密码学基础设施,让外部兼容 EVM 的网络能够无缝执行机密智能合约 [CO001, CO014]。管理层由联合创始人兼 CEO Rand Hindi 博士和联合创始人兼 CTO Pascal Paillier 博士带领,兼具经验证的创业执行能力与顶尖密码学研究实力 [CO002, CO003]。

核心 KPI 快照表
指标数值 / 状态截至日期置信度尽调缺口
总部与法律注册地巴黎,法国2026-10-10高无(已核实公司注册信息和主要运营地点)
成立日期20202026-10-10高无(已核实联合创始人公司披露)
累计融资$138M - $150M+2025-06-30中一级股权、债务与二级流动性之间的准确拆分
最新股权估值$1.0B (Series B)2025-06-30中投后清算优先权和代币认股权权利
经审计收入 / ARR未披露(第三方估算 $26.4M)2025-12-31低经审计的 GAAP 财务报表和企业合同计费明细

核心公司、资本结构和规模指标综合自一级媒体、研究报道及公司公告。

[CO001, CO004, CO005, CO008]

1.2 管理层、科学 IP 与关键人物依赖

Zama 的竞争地位高度依赖两位创始人的科研履历和过往创业记录 [CO002, CO003]。Rand Hindi 博士拥有生物信息学博士学位,曾创办 AI 语音平台 Snips;Snips 于 2019 年被 Sonos 成功收购,证明了他的新兴软件商业化能力 [CO002]。Pascal Paillier 博士是国际知名密码学先驱,发明了 Paillier 密码系统,并拥有约 25 个专利族,保护核心同态加密技术 [CO003]。截至 2025 年底,Zama 已将技术团队扩充至 96 人,覆盖 26 个国籍,其中 37 人拥有博士学位,成为全球规模最大的专门私有 FHE 研究团队之一 [CO009]。不过,理论密码学 IP 仍主要依赖 Paillier 博士,机构融资和商业合作则主要依赖 Hindi 博士,关键人物风险依然集中 [CO002, CO003, CO006]。

管理层与创始人表
人员职务背景创始人与市场匹配度及覆盖范围关键人物依赖
Rand Hindi 博士联合创始人兼 CEO生物信息学博士;Snips 创始人(后被 Sonos 收购)高管治理、商业化战略与企业合作伙伴关系高;推动风险融资和生态采用的核心高管
Pascal Paillier 博士联合创始人兼 CTO密码学先驱、Paillier 密码系统发明者,拥有 25 个专利族密码学架构、TFHE 方案演进与核心算法 IP关键;专有算法背后的核心科学权威和发明者
Genesis MPC 运营者去中心化密钥托管者由 13 个节点组成的分布式阈值解密联盟协议密钥生成、阈值解密与跨链安全中;协议活性取决于诚实多数且不串谋的假设

管理层和运营治理信息已通过公司官方简介及技术白皮书核实。

[CO001, CO002, CO003, CO014]

1.3 融资历史、估值轨迹与投资人联盟

Zama 在多轮风险投资周期中展现出极强的募资能力,累计股权融资超过 $138 million,用于支持高强度密码学研究和开发者工具建设 [CO004, CO005]。公司先获得 $8 million 种子轮投资,随后于 2024 年 3 月完成 $73 million A 轮融资,由 Multicoin Capital 和 Protocol Labs 共同领投,股权估值接近 $400 million [CO004]。2025 年 6 月,Zama 完成由 Pantera Capital 领投的 $57 million B 轮融资,估值达到 $1.0 billion,成为全球首家 FHE 独角兽 [CO005]。其股权结构表和顾问网络包括 Gavin Wood、Juan Benet、Anatoly Yakovenko 及风险投资机构 Hack VC 等生态知名人士 [CO006]。管理层称其在 2024 年初签署的合同价值超过 $50 million,第三方分析师则估计 2025 年收入运行率接近 $26.4 million,但经核实的 GAAP 收入和客户集中度指标仍未披露 [CO007, CO008]。

利益相关方与投资者图谱
利益相关方角色控制权或经济重要性尽调要求
Multicoin CapitalSeries A 轮共同领投方重要早期机构股权投资者和加密生态顾问核查董事会席位、观察员权利及代币附函条款
Protocol LabsSeries A 轮共同领投方共同领投方和战略分布式系统伙伴核实联合开发或共享密码学知识产权协议
Pantera CapitalSeries B 轮领投方领投 $57M Series B,使估值达到 $1.0B 独角兽水平确认高级清算优先权和保护性契约条款
Hack VC早期风险投资者基础设施投资方和长期区块链投资者评估后续按比例参与权和共同投资工具
Morpho 与策展方DeFi 生态伙伴策展联盟(Steakhouse、Armitage、Flowdesk、Bitwise、RockawayX),策展规模超过 $2.4B审计费用分成协议、金库分配条款和协议风险边界

已按融资轮次和商业整合关系梳理关键股权及战略生态利益相关方。

[CO004, CO005, CO006, CO007, CO013]

1.4 里程碑演进、主网交付与监管摩擦

2020 年至 2025 年底,Zama 从基础数学研究转向生产级区块链基础设施,最终于 2025 年 12 月底推出 Ethereum 主网协议,并于 2026 年 1 月进行 $ZAMA 代币拍卖 [CO012]。2026 年 9 月,公司与 Morpho 合作,在 Zama Swap Protocol 之外推出 16 个精选金库,扩大机密 DeFi 的使用范围 [CO013]。不过,这次运营落地也暴露出严重的可组合性漏洞:2026 年 6 月,稳定币发行方 Circle 根据涉及 Overnight Finance 民事纠纷的特拉华州法院紧急禁令,将 Zama 的 Confidential USDC(cUSDC)智能合约列入黑名单,冻结了池中 $12.6 million 抵押品 [CO010]。作为回应,Zama 暂停了相邻的包装合约,并与合规机构协调隔离争议资金,说明隐私保护型智能合约架构仍会受到中心化发行方法律干预的影响 [CO010, CO011]。

FO001: 公司里程碑时间线

梳理 Zama 从 2020 年成立到 2026 年多链 DeFi 扩张的关键公司、融资、产品和监管里程碑。

里程碑日期反映官方公告日期、媒体披露和法院记录。

[CO001, CO004, CO005, CO007, CO010, CO011, CO012, CO013]

1.5 展示材料

Chapter 02

02市场分析

2.1 市场边界、范围与结构性相邻领域

Zama 位于密码学、企业隐私和去中心化金融基础设施的交汇处。公司的核心技术是全同态加密(FHE),能够在数据保持加密的情况下计算,无需中途解密。从商业角度看,这一边界将企业和 Web3 的 IT 支出划分为不同层级。可计入的支出包括机密虚拟机运行时授权、密码学协处理器、协议层机密 Gas 费用和密钥管理服务(KMS)阈值验证基础设施;通用云托管、未加密的 Layer-1 基础 Gas 消耗及标准数据库基础设施则属于被排除的商品化支出。早期市场牵引力已由去中心化应用率先验证,最明显的案例是多个资产管理方在 Morpho 上部署的机密收益金库;但 Zama 更广泛的战略目标是机密机器学习和企业云分析。现有替代方案包括 Intel SGX 或 AWS Nitro Enclaves 等基于硬件的可信执行环境(TEE)、多方计算(MPC)和零知识证明(ZKP),各自需要在性能延迟、信任假设和可编程性之间取舍。[CM001, CM002, CM003, CM008]

市场定义与支出范围
市场细分纳入支出排除支出买方 / 付款方战略相关性
机密区块链基础设施FHE 协处理器、机密 EVM 运行时许可、协议 Gas 费、验证者质押奖励公共 Layer 1 基础 Gas、未加密共识验证、非机密 RPC 节点Web3 基金会金库、协议开发者、生态基金近期核心收入驱动因素和实际部署载体
机密 DeFi 与资产管理机密收益金库费用、私有 RFQ / swap 协议费用、隐私稳定币封装底层流动性提供、标准 DEX 流动性费用、非隐私资产托管机构流动性提供方、资产管理人、DeFi 基金隐私 TVL($100M+ 里程碑)和交易费销毁的直接驱动因素
受监管机构代币化私有智能合约合规引擎、选择性披露工具、阈值 KMS 许可核心银行账本现代化、传统结算网络费用、法律架构一线投资银行、托管机构、机构经纪交易商JP Morgan Project EPIC 已展示其高价值企业验证
机密 AI 与云机器学习加密模型推理运行时、私有模型权重评估、机密训练 API通用 GPU 计算时长、未加密模型训练、公有云存储企业首席信息安全官(CISO)、AI 研究负责人、企业 IT公司管理层称其为长期主要企业市场目标

支出分类将协议级机密基础设施与底层区块链 Gas 和通用企业云计算区分开。

[CM001, CM002, CM003, CM008, CM014]

2.2 多视角市场规模与增长轨迹

评估 Zama 的可服务机会,需要把宏观预测与近期可观察的市场需求拆开。宏观层面,第三方行业预测认为,更广义的区块链隐私计算市场将从 2025 年的 $9.42 billion 增长到 2033 年的 $23.31 billion,年复合增长率接近 12%。在专业密码学软件领域,ResearchAndMarkets 预计全球安全多方计算(SMPC)市场将从 2025 年的 $1.04 billion 增长至 2026 年的 $1.18 billion,并在 2030 年达到 $1.96 billion,年复合增长率为 13.4%。从宏观估算收窄到可观察的协议牵引力,可以看到一个仍处早期但快速扩张的可服务市场。Zama 称在最初商业化阶段签署了超过 $50 million 的合同承诺,定价同时包含代币计价和按交易计价。链上经核实的协议活动显示出明显速度:2026 年 10 月,总受保护价值(TVS)超过 $100 million,在 90 天窗口内增长 3.6 倍,覆盖 16 个精选借贷金库。同时,公开二级市场给出的协议市值为 $194.23 million,按 11.315 billion 枚代币总供应量计算的完全稀释估值为 $867.14 million,这为当前实用量对应的估值提供了经验上限。[CM002, CM006, CM009, CM010, CM015]

市场规模预测与细分估算
发布方 / 来源年份地区市场规模CAGR方法置信度局限
ResearchAndMarkets / MENAFN2026全球$1.18B (2026) 至 $1.96B (2030)13.4%行业分析师调研、企业 IT 支出模型、机密云采用跟踪高广义汇总多方计算;未单独拆出纯 FHE 收入
行业研究 / AInvest2025全球$9.42B (2025) 至 $23.31B (2033)12.0%自下而上的区块链隐私协议支出、密码学硬件、企业合规预测中除 FHE 软件外,还包括硬件可信执行环境(TEE)和零知识系统
Zama / TechCrunch 访谈2024全球已签合同金额 $50M+N/A报道的六个月运营期内初始商业合同承诺中将法币合同与非法币代币计价承诺合并的粗略估计
DeFi 市场跟踪 / AskSurf2026全球链上$104.6M 隐私保护总价值(TVS)360%(90 天)16 个 Morpho 机密金库及资产封装层的链上核实仪表盘数据高衡量第三方封装资产中的锁定抵押品,而非协议软件收入

估算从多个视角划定密码学软件、更广义隐私计算和链上协议 TVL 的市场边界。

[CM002, CM006, CM009, CM010]
FM001: 市场规模分层与可寻址需求金字塔

对比广泛的企业机密计算与当前可服务 FHE 区块链协议部署的分层规模模型。

各层宽度仅表示层级,不代表数值比例。

分层从广泛的行业研究预测,下沉至经核实的链上受保护总价值和代币市场定价。

[CM006, CM009, CM010, CM015]

2.3 买方类型、预算归属与采购路径

Zama 的客户分层和预算决策权沿两条主要结构性轴线分化:去中心化 Web3 协议与受监管机构企业。在 Web3 领域,主要买方是协议架构师或去中心化自治组织(DAO)治理委员会。这些实体采购 FHEVM 智能合约能力和私密金库模块,用于保护去中心化金融交易,避免最大可提取价值(MEV)攻击、抢跑和公开流动性追踪。预算来自 DAO 金库和开发者资助,部署周期由收益率差异化驱动。在受监管企业领域,以 JP Morgan 的机密代币化资产交易项目 Project EPIC 等试点为代表,采购路径明显不同。机构买方包括 CTO 和数字资产创新负责人,预算来自合规和战略转型项目。采用触发条件包括严格的监管可审计性、选择性披露机制和企业级密钥管理架构。最后,网络基础设施运营商构成第三类运营主体,为节点硬件提供资金,以参与多方阈值解密,并在协议的销毁与铸造代币模型下获得验证者发行收益。[CM001, CM007, CM008, CM014]

目标买方画像与预算负责人图谱
细分市场买方画像目标用户付款方目标工作流预算负责人采用触发因素
机密 DeFi 协议协议架构师 / DAO 委员会智能合约工程师协议 DAO 金库部署私有收益金库、隐私 AMM 和盲拍工程副总裁 / DAO 治理DeFi 金库需要 MEV 保护和机构资本隐私
机构银行与资本市场数字资产负责人 / 创新负责人量化开发者 / 结算运营企业创新部门 / 业务单元机密代币化债券发行、私有二级交易、合规 DvP首席技术官 / 交易负责人监管要求实现机密结算,不能公开泄露交易头寸
企业云与隐私保护 AI首席信息安全官(CISO)数据科学家 / ML 工程师企业 IT / 安全预算在敏感医疗或金融客户数据上运行加密推理首席信息官(CIO)跨境数据隐私法规(GDPR/HIPAA)和专有 IP 保护
Web3 运营者与质押者节点运营者 / 基础设施提供商DevOps 工程师 / 验证者节点运营资本运行 MPC 阈值解密节点和 FHEVM 协处理器基础设施负责人协议增发奖励,以及 burn-and-mint 机制下的计算 Gas 费分成

梳理去中心化网络和企业 IT 部门中的采购决策者与工作流整合点。

[CM001, CM002, CM007, CM008, CM014]

2.4 采用催化剂、可组合性阻力与尽调缺口

全同态加密在企业和机构中的采用加速,面临显著的技术和结构性阻力。密码学性能仍是首要约束:以太坊基础智能合约执行吞吐量目前约为每秒 20 笔交易,专用 FPGA 和 ASIC 硬件加速器尚未商业成熟。企业准备度调查还显示,采用机密计算的组织中有 75% 严重缺乏专业密码学人才,阻碍其快速投入生产。除了计算限制,近期法律事件也暴露出隐私包装器固有的系统性可组合性漏洞。2026 年 5 月,Circle 根据美国联邦法院命令将 Zama 的 cUSDC 合约列入黑名单,冻结 $12.6 million 资产并打乱无辜第三方余额,证明池化链上隐私包装器仍容易受到传统司法干预。此外,协议价值捕获面临结构性稀释:当前流通代币约 2.55 billion 枚,而总供应量为 11.31 billion 枚,存在明显的代币供给悬垂;受保护 TVL 的增长反映的是第三方资产存入,而不是直接的代币需求。已实现的企业现金 ARR、客户集中度和私密计算单位毛利仍存在关键尽调缺口。[CM004, CM005, CM007, CM011, CM012, CM013, CM014]

2.5 展示材料

Chapter 03

03竞争格局

3.1 竞争格局架构与隐私技术分类

评估 Zama 的竞争地位,需要区分区块链和企业机密性的基础数学路径 [CP001]。Zama 专注于全同态加密(FHE),让兼容 EVM 的区块链能够在无需中途解密的情况下,对加密状态执行任意计算 [CP001, CP005]。在更广泛的 Web3 和企业隐私市场中,机密架构分为三类主要结构:全同态加密协处理器、零知识证明结算层,以及多方计算或机密分片网络 [CP002, CP003, CP004]。同态加密领域的直接同行包括面向企业的 Duality Query、Fhenix 和 Sunscreen,它们瞄准私有数据库查询或专用 Rollup;NEAR Protocol 等通用区块链则通过私有网络分片中的 NEAR Confidential Intents 提供替代隐私机制 [CP002, CP004]。与此同时,Hinkal 等机构隐私协议聚焦于透明公链上的非托管机密结算,利用零知识证明隐藏发送方身份、收款地址和交易金额 [CP002, CP003]。现有替代方案依赖硬件可信执行环境(TEE)或链下双边结算,但会引入物理侧信道漏洞或中心化托管风险,而密码学方案可以消除这些问题 [CP001, CP004]。

竞争对手概况表
竞争对手 / 方案类别规模 / 融资目标细分差异化局限
Zama Protocol直接竞争(FHE 基础设施)风险融资 $81M 以上($73M Series A 由 Multicoin/Protocol Labs 共同领投);代币拍卖 $121MEVM 智能合约 dApp、机密 DeFi、企业 AI通过 TFHE-rs 和 FHEVM 在加密状态上执行任意计算;25 个专利族20 TPS 吞吐瓶颈;需逐链部署;暴露于中心化稳定币黑名单风险
Hinkal Protocol替代方案(ZK 结算层)已处理 $400M 以上机密交易量;通过 6 次独立安全审计公链上的机构金库、场外交易台、PSP 和薪资发放接收方无需设置;多链统一结算(ETH、SOL、Base、Tron);Chainalysis KYT隐藏转账数据,但不支持在加密状态上执行任意智能合约计算
Duality Query直接竞争(FHE 数据安全)获风险资本支持的网络安全 / 加密数据查询平台企业数据库查询、网络安全情报、跨边界数据协作针对敏感表格数据集和分析的专用安全查询执行聚焦企业数据查询,而非可组合的公链智能合约
NEAR Protocol (Confidential Intents)相邻方案(L1 机密分片)拥有大量生态资本和高开发者活跃度的公有 L1 网络消费者 dApp、跨链 DeFi 和 Web3 自主 AI 代理通过私有分片执行机密意图,无需外部 FHE 协处理器机密性仅覆盖受支持的意图和存款;底层基础 L1 仍公开
Hardware TEEs (Intel SGX / AWS Nitro)现状替代方案全球超大规模云厂商和硬件供应商基础设施企业云计算、机密 VM、企业联盟链借助成熟云工具和 SDK,吞吐接近原生执行速度硬件侧信道攻击;依赖中心化半导体制造商

综合竞争对手披露、密码学文档和独立市场报告。

[CP001, CP002, CP003, CP004, CP005]
FP001: 竞争定位图

按计算表达能力及部署 / 吞吐效率,对区块链和企业隐私技术进行竞争定位。

条目部署与吞吐效率 (0–10)计算表达能力与机密可编程性 (0–10)说明
1. Zama Protocol 2.5 9 在 FHE 下执行任意智能合约;受 20 TPS 吞吐量和逐链部署限制
2. Duality Query 4.5 7.5 面向企业数据库优化的 FHE 查询引擎;适合表格查询,但不支持 EVM 智能合约
3. Hinkal Protocol 8.5 4 高速多链机密结算,无需设置收款方;仅限于转账保护
4. NEAR Protocol 7 5.5 基础吞吐量高(40–80 TPS),并为支持的意图提供隐私分片;缺乏通用机密状态
5. 硬件 TEE 9 8.5 原生计算速度和通用可编程性;受硬件信任假设及侧信道漏洞削弱
6. 未加密现状 9.5 1 具备最高吞吐量和可组合性的公开基础 EVM 区块链;没有密码学机密性

评分反映基于技术文档和竞争对手基准,对计算灵活性、观察到的交易吞吐量及部署摩擦的定性分析。

[CP001, CP002, CP003, CP004, CP006]

3.2 密码学能力、吞吐量基准与合规姿态

Zama 与替代隐私协议之间的核心取舍,在于计算表达能力、交易延迟和多链部署灵活性之间的平衡 [CP004, CP006]。Zama 的 FHEVM 架构允许开发者执行任意加密状态转换和算术运算,但计算吞吐量严重受限:当前生产基准约为每秒 20 笔交易(TPS),工程路线图则计划借助 GPU 和定制 FPGA 加速提升至 1,000 TPS [CP004, CP006]。相比之下,Hinkal 等零知识结算方案继承宿主链的原生吞吐量,例如 Ethereum、Solana、Arbitrum 和 Base,因为计算通过简洁证明验证,而不是在同态加密下执行 [CP003, CP004]。从集成和用户体验看,Hinkal 无需逐个为收款方开户,可跨多链金库环境运行;Zama 则要求逐链部署 FHE、使用专门的密码学开发工具,并配置定制协处理器 [CP003, CP004]。两种范式也有不同的合规流程:Hinkal 在方案层嵌入 Chainalysis KYT 筛查和选择性查看密钥,以满足监管可审计性;Zama 则通过 Elliptic 和 Hypernative 实现合规设计的访问控制列表(ACL)及合作方筛查 [CP003, CP008]。[CP003, CP004, CP006, CP007, CP008]

功能 / 能力矩阵
购买标准 / 能力Zama ProtocolHinkal ProtocolNEAR Protocol(机密意图)硬件 TEE
机密技术全同态加密(TFHE-rs)零知识证明(zk-SNARKs)私有网络分片硬件安全隔离区
任意链上计算支持(FHEVM 加密状态与整数逻辑)不支持(仅支持结算和转账隐私)部分支持(支持意图流程)支持(不受限的隔离区计算)
吞吐 / 延迟当前 20 TPS(路线图目标为 GPU/FPGA 1,000 TPS)继承宿主链速度(L2/Solana 高吞吐)平均 40-80 TPS(600ms 区块时间,1.2s 最终性)接近原生 CPU 速度(延迟开销可忽略)
跨链架构需要逐链部署;定制协处理器统一多链运行(ETH、SOL、Base、Tron)单一基础 L1,配合跨链签名特定于云实例;没有原生多链层
接收方接入摩擦需要 dApp 集成、FHE SDK 和密钥生成零设置;连接现有标准钱包标准 NEAR 账户或跨链签名需要云证明和隔离区验证
合规与筛查机制应用层 ACL、Elliptic KYT、Hypernative方案层 Chainalysis KYT 和审计查看密钥应用层披露;没有原生隐私 KYT企业边界安全和主机操作系统控制
中心化审查暴露易受影响(Circle 冻结了 cUSDC 代理中的 1260 万美元)若法币稳定币池成为目标,则易受影响桥接中心化资产时易受影响供应商证明撤销 / 云账户暂停

评估标准基于生产环境技术文档、伙伴比较和事件记录。

[CP003, CP004, CP006, CP007, CP008, CP012]

3.3 护城河持久性、切换成本与中心化审查风险

Zama 的主要护城河来自深厚的自有密码学 IP 和专利保护,由联合创始人 Pascal Paillier 博士主导;他在先进密码系统领域拥有约 25 个专利族 [CP005]。为了在保持社区采用的同时将科研优势变现,Zama 采用双重授权模式:TFHE-rs 和 Concrete 等核心库以 BSD 3-Clause Clear 许可开源,但使用自有部署的商业企业必须取得商业专利授权 [CP005, CP009]。不过,开发者切换成本、代币市场波动和中心化资产发行方干预,都给 Zama 的商业防御力带来结构性风险 [CP010, CP011, CP012]。在加密资产二级市场,ZAMA 代币通过荷兰式拍卖发行并募集 $121 million,但随后经历剧烈重估,交易价格约为 $0.032–$0.075,市值在 $70M–$191M 之间;同时,公开网络上还存在与 Philadelphia 的 Zama Sushi 和 Aldea Zama 房地产等无关实体的混淆 [CP010, CP011, CP013]。最关键的是,2026 年 5 月 Zama 的 cUSDC 合约在联邦民事法院禁令后冻结了 $12.6 million USDC,说明密码学机密包装器无法保护池化流动性免受中心化稳定币黑名单影响,形成竞争隐私平台正在强调的不利运营悬垂 [CP003, CP012]。

定价 / 套餐比较
方案定价 / 变现模式包含能力折扣或未知项战略 / 尽调含义
Zama Protocol双轨开源 / 商业模式:L1/L2 Gas 收取代币费用,向私人银行收取交易费;另有商业专利许可FHEVM 智能合约、TFHE-rs 库、客户端 SDK、阈值 KMS 协处理器基础设施企业商业专利许可的确切价格和数量阶梯未披露;合同历史上以代币计价收入质量取决于波动性较高的客户代币储备和链上协议 Gas 销毁机制
Hinkal Protocol对隐私存款、转账和提款收取基于交易的协议费;向 PSP 提供 SDK 集成许可多链机密支付 SDK、Chainalysis KYT 筛查、查看密钥基础设施、定制池定制机构池部署的费用表未披露;高交易量 OTC 交易台可享受数量折扣现金流取决于交易量,但开发者集成摩擦低于完整 FHE 协处理器部署
Duality Query按查询量和计算实例规模分档的企业年度软件订阅 / SaaS加密查询引擎、数据协作工作流、监管合规报告目录价未公开;需要企业定制采购报价不受加密货币代币波动影响、可预测的经常性企业软件收入模式
NEAR Protocol每笔交易 / 意图执行以 NEAR 代币支付原生网络 Gas 费基础链共识、私有分片交易路由、跨链意图中继私有意图执行相对于标准公开交易定价的 Gas 开销尚未标准化通过补贴维持网络经济,隐私是次要平台功能,而非核心变现驱动因素

综合供应商许可条款、访谈披露和机构加密货币费用结构。

[CP003, CP005, CP009, CP010]

3.4 展示材料

Chapter 04

04财务情况

4.1 收入来源与商业变现架构

Zama 通过结合企业链下授权和链上协议机制的双轨经济架构,将全同态加密商业化。在企业软件端,管理层称商业化后六个月内签署的商业合同价值超过 $50 million,使其密码学库和 fheVM 基础设施进入去中心化金融及私人银行机构。但已实现收入质量与传统软件经常性收入存在明显差异。面向 web3 开发者的合同大量以客户项目代币而非法币计价,使已签约合同价值暴露于加密资产的剧烈波动和流动性折价。对于部署私有区块链环境的机构银行,Zama 按交易收取使用费。在公链上,协议通过原生 $ZAMA 实用代币捕获价值:同态加密和零知识证明验证的 Gas 费用由预言机按美元定价,再以 ZAMA 支付;所收协议费用的 100 percent 会永久销毁,以建立通缩机制,抵消网络验证带来的通胀。[CI001, CI002, CI003, CI004, CI005]

收入来源表
收入来源变现机制定价单位已披露规模 / 状态收入质量尽调要求
企业级 FHE 许可专有软件许可与集成年度订阅 / 部署已披露超过 $50M 的管线 / 合同中等(代币 / 法币组合未经验证)经审计的企业合同明细表
保密 EVM Gas 费由预言机定价、在链上销毁的执行费每次加密操作收取费用(ZAMA)已在主网上线(cUSDT / 拍卖)协议效用高;法币换算波动历史链上销毁费用量数据
运营者质押 / 节点委托委托式 PoS 验证者与 KMS 激励5% 年度通胀(铸造 ZAMA)已与 Ledger、Fireblocks、LayerZero 上线非现金的协议协同激励运营者佣金与质押分配
密封投标拍卖费保密荷兰式拍卖的协议费已承诺资本总额的百分比2026 年 1 月拍卖已承诺 $118.5M非经常性里程碑收入留存协议收益的对账

所有收入来源和定价结构均汇总自公司披露与第三方报告;私有企业法币 ARR 及现金实现率仍未经验证。

[CI001, CI002, CI003, CI004, CI007]
定价 / 变现表
产品 / 方案定价与合同模式标准定价结构实际定价与支付媒介折扣与未知项来源引用
开源库(TFHE-rs、Concrete)双重许可开源(BSD / 商业)免费访问公共代码库$0 直接变现;开发者漏斗企业支持溢价未披露SI004, SI006
fheVM 保密智能合约每个加密计算操作码收取链上 Gas 费以 ZAMA 代币计价、由市场决定的 Gas代币计价的 Gas 100% 销毁Gas 预言机补贴及波动影响SI003, SI004
企业银行与金融解决方案定制企业许可与交易费私有链按笔收取费用客户代币与法币费用混合合同层面的折扣档位未知SI005
密封投标荷兰式拍卖基础设施结算价发现机制固定结算价(每枚 ZAMA $0.05)以 USD / USDT 等值计价的加密投标拍卖超额认购返利条款SI001

变现参数依据已发布的协议规则和高管访谈;实际软件净定价及面向客户的代币折扣协议未披露。

[CI001, CI002, CI003, CI007]

4.2 市场进入机制与渠道经济学

Zama 以开发者为核心推进市场进入,依托 GitHub 上托管的四个开源密码学库,包括 TFHE-rs 和 Concrete 编译器。通过向超过 3,000 名开发者提供零门槛密码学工具,Zama 构建了广泛的开发者采用漏斗,将开发者引向其 fheVM 机密执行环境的主网部署。与 Ledger、Fireblocks、Etherscan 和 LayerZero 等机构基础设施提供商的渠道合作,保障网络验证和密钥管理运营,并将 Zama 的隐私原语嵌入既有数字资产托管轨道。2026 年 1 月,Zama 在 Ethereum 主网进行公开密封投标荷兰式拍卖,吸引 11,103 名独立参与者,以 $0.05 的成交价募集 $118.5 million 总承诺资本,牵引力明显加速。拍卖证明市场对机密代币发行有很强需求,短期内产生 $121 million 总受保护价值,并成为 Ethereum 上交易量最高的应用;但一次性分发事件之外能否持续产生经常性费用,商业转型仍未经证明。[CI001, CI003, CI004, CI006, CI007, CI008]

FI001: 收入模式桥接图

按顺序展示客户资金从开发者接入,经机密计算和费用销毁,最终到企业变现的流转。

节点 / 连接节点 / 起点终点说明
节点 1 开发者库采用超过 3,000 名开发者使用开源 TFHE-rs 和 Concrete 库,将其作为漏斗顶部入口。
节点 2 机密应用部署开发者在 EVM 网络上使用 Zama 的 fheVM 构建机密 dApp、代币和稳定币。
节点 3 用户交易执行终端用户提交加密交易,需要同态求值和零知识验证。
节点 4 协议费用销毁与运营方补贴用户以 ZAMA 支付的费用 100% 被销毁;网络协处理器获得通胀铸币奖励。
节点 5 企业银行与基础设施集成机构客户签约私链 FHE 实施项目,按交易或软件授权收费。
节点 6 商业现金与财资兑现在硬件加速推进的同时,Zama 通过企业合同金额和代币财资升值实现变现。
连接 1 开发者库采用机密应用部署工具漏斗
连接 2 机密应用部署用户交易执行主网使用
连接 3 用户交易执行协议费用销毁与运营方补贴费用捕获
连接 4 协议费用销毁与运营方补贴企业银行与基础设施集成生态成熟
连接 5 企业银行与基础设施集成商业现金与财资兑现企业变现

转化阶段和节点依赖代表架构顺序,而非实证转化率。

[CI001, CI003, CI004, CI006, CI010]

4.3 成本结构、毛利率驱动因素与协议交付开支

Zama 商业模式的经济可行性,很大程度上取决于先进密码学工程和同态计算带来的特殊成本结构。人员是 Zama 最大的运营现金支出:公司约有 120 名员工,其中 40 人拥有密码学、数学或计算机科学博士学位。这批顶尖科研人才带来估计每月 $2.0 million 至 $3.0 million 的人员现金烧钱。交付端的全同态加密还带来严重的计算延迟和服务器开销,需要专用 GPU 集群以及未来的 ASIC 硬件加速器才能达到可行吞吐量。虽然 Zama 相对基线算法已实现 100x 速度提升,但加密电路评估的计算密集度意味着,交易处理成本和协处理器基础设施托管会相较标准云软件企业显著压缩毛利率。在专用硬件加速芯片实现规模化生产和部署前,企业交易处理仍将是资本密集型业务。[CI009, CI010]

单位经济学表
指标已披露 / 估算值置信度战略与经济含义尽调验证要求
累计股权融资已融资 $150M+(B 轮估值 >$1B)高充足的资金续航,可支撑资本密集型密码学研发经审计的股权结构表及优先股清算优先权
已签约商业价值6 个月内已声称达到 $50M+低早期管线规模可观,但高度以代币计价按 GAAP 确认的收入拆分及现金回款历史
荷兰式拍卖承诺资本$118.5M(超额认购 218%)中验证了市场对保密代币分配的强烈需求参与者结算后留存的净金库收益
员工人数与人员规模120 名员工(包括 40 名密码学博士)高高额固定薪酬支出推动预计每月 $2.0M-$3.0M 的现金消耗按部门拆分的薪酬、奖金与承包商成本
加密 Gas 交易成本由预言机定价,费用 100% 销毁中FHE 计算开销需要 GPU / ASIC 硬件加速详细的云计算与协处理器托管单位成本

数值综合自已披露的融资轮次、已报告的商业合同和协议工程基准;由于私有披露缺口,未列出经营现金利润率和按 GAAP 计的毛利。

[CI002, CI007, CI009, CI010, CI011]

4.4 资本充足性、现金烧钱与可组合性外溢风险

Zama 在连续数轮数百万美元股权融资后保持了充足的资产负债表资本,为深科技研发路线提供了较长的现金跑道。2024 年 3 月,公司以接近 $400 million 的估值完成 $73 million A 轮融资;2025 年 6 月,又完成由 Blockchange Ventures 和 Pantera Capital 共同领投的 $57 million B 轮融资,使累计股权融资超过 $150 million,股权估值超过 $1 billion,达到独角兽水平。此外,2026 年 1 月的荷兰式拍卖带来 $118.5 million 承诺资本,进一步充实流动性储备。尽管资产负债表缓冲很强,交易对手和可组合性风险仍带来严重运营隐患。2026 年 5 月,稳定币发行方 Circle 根据涉及 Overnight Finance 的民事纠纷和美国联邦法院禁令,将 Zama 的 Confidential USDC 智能合约列入黑名单。由于目标存款人的资金占池化 cUSDC 包装器超过 99%,整个代理合约被冻结,$12.6 million 用户资金被锁定。这一事件说明,中心化稳定币的可组合性摩擦可以突然打断协议流动性并损害商业信任。[CI011, CI012, CI014, CI015]

4.5 投资判断与关键尽调阻塞点

从机构投资判断角度看,Zama 的财务画像不对称:顶级密码学 IP 与未经验证的商业现金流并存。$150 million 风险投资、$1 billion 估值和据称 $50 million 商业合同价值等 headline 指标,显示出快速商业验证的迹象;但由于缺乏经审计的 GAAP 财务披露,无法对软件经常性 ARR、净留存率或现金毛利率作出确定判断。此外,合同大量以客户代币支付,使盈利质量暴露于数字资产波动;Circle 列入黑名单事件也凸显传统法律干预如何使隐私智能合约陷入瘫痪。关键尽调阻塞点包括取得经审计损益表、核实企业合同实际法币现金回收率、审计代币金库清算政策,并在投入增长资本前,根据长期交易费率对协处理器计算单元成本做压力测试。[CI001, CI002, CI005, CI010, CI013, CI014, CI015]

4.6 展示材料

Chapter 05

05产品与技术

5.1 产品架构与运营模式

Zama 设计并商业化全同态加密(FHE)基础设施,让开发者能够构建在不解密的情况下直接计算私有数据的应用。公司区块链产品的核心是 FHEVM,这是一个全栈开源框架,与更广泛的 Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol 集成。FHEVM 让兼容 EVM 的去中心化应用在保留可组合性和链上数据可用性的同时,隐藏交易金额、余额和运营状态。在这一架构下,加密状态与公开状态并存,不会破坏既有去中心化应用工作流。为了让加密执行在公链和私链上真正落地,Zama 在宿主智能合约上采用符号执行。宿主合约验证状态转换,并在链上记录符号计算图;繁重的同态数学则异步卸载给使用 TFHE-rs、以 Rust 实现的高性能协处理器。解密权限由去中心化多方计算(MPC)密钥管理系统(KMS)分散持有,防止单一运营方密钥被攻破或数据未经授权暴露。[CE001, CE002, CE003, CE004, CE007, CE011]

技术与运营架构拆解
层 / 组件作用依赖风险
宿主链合约状态编排、符号执行与网关路由EVM 宿主链共识与执行环境智能合约升级漏洞及代理管理员利用风险
Rust 协处理器链下执行高负载同态算术高性能计算实例(AWS)与 TFHE-rs 引擎高负载时协处理器可用性瓶颈与延迟
MPC KMS 网络阈值密钥生成与分布式解密管理去中心化 MPC 节点运营者与网络同步运营者串谋或网络阈值分区故障
合规与监控层持续进行链上监控、告警与钱包筛查Elliptic API 与 Hypernative 自动化响应平台第三方预言机 / API 停机与中心化稳定币冻结

架构组件源自 Zama FHEVM 代码库规格、AWS 基础设施案例研究和合作伙伴公告。

[CE001, CE002, CE003, CE010, CE012, CE014]
FE001: Zama FHEVM 机密计算架构

多层运营栈展示链上主机编排、链下同态计算、阈值密钥管理与合规控制的分离。

应用与接口层
Solidity 智能合约、ERC-7984 机密代币、Zama TypeScript SDK、React hooks 和 dApp 前端
合规与风险筛查层
资金进入协议封装前,执行选择性披露 ACL 和 Elliptic KYT 钱包筛查
持续监控与响应层
Hypernative 链上自动监控、业务逻辑告警和 Transaction Guard 模拟
主链编排层
网关合约和主链智能合约在 EVM 状态上以符号方式执行 FHE 工作流
链下计算层
基于 Rust 的 FHEVM 协处理器在高内存 AWS 实例和 Alveo V80 HPU 上执行 TFHE 运算
密钥管理与密码学核心
去中心化 MPC 密钥管理系统(KMS)管理抗量子 TFHE 阈值解密

基于 FHEVM 技术文档和代码库结构的逻辑架构抽象。

[CE001, CE002, CE003, CE007, CE010, CE012]

5.2 模块组合、开发者工作流与工具链

Zama 的产品组合覆盖开发者工具、去中心化协议应用和机器学习框架。对智能合约开发者而言,FHEVM 提供原生 Solidity 绑定,可兼容 Hardhat 和 Foundry 等既有工具链。开发者可以直接在合约代码中定义加密访问控制逻辑,使用精度最高达 256 bit 的高精度加密整数,以及布尔运算、比较和算术原语。面向客户端应用,Zama TypeScript SDK 为密钥生成、保护、机密转账和代币解保护提供高层抽象。在区块链之外,Zama 维护基于 LLVM 的 Concrete 编译器,将 Python 代码转成同态例程;同时维护开源框架 Concrete ML,兼容 Scikit-learn 和 PyTorch,可实现机密推理和训练。这些库均以 BSD 3-Clause Clear 许可开源采用,但 Zama 要求商业企业在生产环境中使用时取得专利授权。[CE004, CE005, CE006, CE007, CE008, CE009, CE010]

Zama 产品模块与框架矩阵
模块 / 产品线目标用户状态 / 成熟度差异化尽调缺口
FHEVM 核心Web3 智能合约开发者生产环境(v2 / Litepaper)端到端加密状态,兼容 Solidity 工具链真实 Gas 开销基准与协处理器中心化程度
TFHE-rs系统工程师与密码学家生产环境开源纯 Rust 实现的 TFHE 方案,支持布尔与整数运算跨不同硬件目标的侧信道抗性验证
Zama SDK前端与 dApp 工程师生产环境客户端加密、加解密保护与 React 集成钩子客户端密钥派生延迟与移动浏览器性能
协议应用代币持有者与协议运营者协议部署活跃保密资产封装器(cUSDC、cUSDT)、质押与治理中心化资产黑名单及池级冻结漏洞
Concrete ML数据科学家与 ML 工程师开源兼容 Scikit-learn 和 PyTorch,可用于加密推理超出试点管线的企业生产部署证明
硬件加速(HPU)节点运行者与云基础设施提供商研发 / 参考设计面向 AMD Alveo V80 FPGA 加速板的 SystemVerilog RTL生产级 ASIC 制造时间表与硬件单位经济学

产品模块图汇总自 Zama 官方 GitHub 代码库、文档门户和研究出版物,时间截至 2026 年 10 月。

[CE001, CE006, CE007, CE008, CE010]
工作流与用例运营分析
用户任务当前工作流Zama 方案可量化收益局限
保密 DeFi 转账公开代币余额或混币池(Tornado Cash)FHEVM 保密 ERC-7984 代币无需零知识证明即可实现私密余额,并保持链上可组合性阈值解密需要专门的 MPC KMS 基础设施
私有企业薪资发放链下银行电汇或公开加密货币转账链上加密薪资分配在保留链上记录的同时消除工资公开可见性相比原生 ERC-20 转账,计算延迟更高
链上盲拍需要多轮操作的提交—揭示方案在智能合约中直接评估加密投标单轮竞价,提前不会泄露投标信息算术运算有边界,交易 Gas 成本更高
合规流动性筛查人工合规审查与碎片化黑名单集成 Elliptic KYT 与 Hypernative 监控自动化实时威胁检测与选择性披露 ACL中心化稳定币发行方可以冻结混合资金的代理池

工作流画像综合自 FHEVM 架构规格、AWS 案例研究文档和安全事件报告。

[CE001, CE006, CE010, CE012, CE014, CE016]

5.3 合规基础设施、硬件扩展与可组合性风险

为推动机构采用并满足去中心化金融领域严格的监管标准,Zama 已实施合规设计框架。在协议层,细粒度访问控制列表(ACL)允许授权审计人员和监管机构选择性解密交易历史与余额,而不向公众暴露数据。运营风险管理则依托 Elliptic 开展交易前钱包级 KYT 和制裁筛查,并结合 Hypernative 的持续链上监控平台,对宿主合约进行实时威胁检测和自动响应。可扩展性仍与计算吞吐量紧密相连,因此 Zama 持续优化软件原语、使用 AWS 高性能云实例,并开发包括 Alveo V80 同态处理单元(HPU)在内的硬件加速设计。然而,运营事件暴露出严重的可组合性摩擦:稳定币发行方 Circle 在针对外部存款人的联邦民事法院禁令之后,将 Zama 的 cUSDC 合约列入黑名单,池中的约 12.6 million USDC 被程序化冻结,说明密码学隐私包装器仍容易受到中心化资产控制。[CE011, CE012, CE013, CE014, CE015, CE016]

5.4 展示材料

Chapter 06

06客户情况

6.1 客户群体分层与买方画像

Zama 的商业牵引力高度集中在去中心化金融协议、智能合约开发者和寻求可编程隐私的机构数字资产管理者。虽然 Zama 的长期愿景包含企业机器学习工作负载,但管理层公开称当前商业合作几乎全部来自区块链领域。买方主要是协议架构师、量化交易基金和 Web3 基础设施工程师,他们需要链上保密性,又不能牺牲 EVM 可组合性。Zama 采用混合模式变现:传统机构和企业银行合作伙伴按私有网络执行的每笔交易付费,去中心化协议则通过原生代币额度支付。商业化后六个月内,Zama 披露签署的合同价值超过 $50 million,但这个估值反映的是偏粗略的估算,且高度偏向波动性协议代币,而非经审计的法币 ARR。企业需求仍处于早期探索阶段,重点是与受监管合规服务提供商进行试点集成。[CU001, CU002, CU003]

客户细分表
细分市场目标买方 / 用户画像主要用例规模 / 成熟度商业 / 价值捕获模式尽调注意事项
DeFi 协议构建者协议创始人与智能合约工程师保密借贷、私有自动做市商与暗池生产环境(fhEVM 主网于 2025 年 12 月上线)协议费以 USD 计价,并以 ZAMA 功能代币结算(ZK 验证、解密、跨链)当前费用规模有补贴;代币激励掩盖了自然产生的费用
机构资产管理人与 OTC 交易台基金经理、交易台与主经纪商(如 GSR、Steakhouse)受保护收益金库、机构订单流与私有 OTC 交易执行生产试点(16 个 Morpho 金库;$40M 受保护存款)收益分成与按笔收取的企业网关费抵押品冻结期间已显示出资本外流风险
数字资产基础设施提供商钱包运营者与托管基础设施提供商(如 Dfns)保密多方交易签名与私有余额保护集成阶段(声称覆盖 400+ 企业客户)软件许可、企业集成合同与定制 KMS 部署各托管合作伙伴的直接客户转化率仍未披露
企业 / 受监管金融科技合规官、薪资平台(如 Bron)与企业金库保密薪资、借助 Elliptic 进行私有合规审计,以及受监管结算早期试点阶段(首笔薪资于 2026 年 1 月发放)订阅软件许可及按用量计费的法币 / 代币混合计费监管清晰度不足与旅行规则摩擦拖慢大规模商业部署

客户细分依据已披露的生态合作、技术文档和商业披露归类;费用结构参考 Zama Protocol Litepaper。

[CU001, CU002, CU003]

6.2 开发者采用与链上协议轨迹

定量遥测数据显示,Zama 的开源密码学代码库和测试网环境吸引了大量开发者试验。从 2025 年 7 月公测网发布到 2026 年 3 月,Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol 累计记录超过 6.9 million 笔交易,并记录部署了 27,662 个机密智能合约。开发者活动的激增由 fhEVM 协处理器和专用 Solidity 库的发布推动,使普通 Ethereum 开发者无需深厚密码学背景即可编写机密应用。2026 年 1 月,Zama 举行公开实用代币拍卖,作为生产环境压力测试;在 Ethereum 主网上通过密封投标荷兰式拍卖保护了超过 $121 million 的 USDT。尽管这些头部活动数据很可观,尽调发现测试网部署数量无法细分自动化教程脚本与生产级应用。此外,一次性拍卖承诺不能与持续企业队列中的经常性、可产生费用的协议使用混为一谈。[CU004, CU005]

客户增长 / 采用轨迹表
采用指标已披露值日期 / 时点主要来源置信度战略含义缺失分母 / 缺口
公共测试网交易>6.9 million 笔交易2025-07 to 2026-03Messari Report(链上遥测)高在模拟负载下验证开发者活跃度与协处理器网络稳定性独立活跃钱包与非自动化合约调用未拆分
已部署保密合约27,662 份合约2026-03Messari Report(Dune Analytics 跟踪)高展示开发者对 fhEVM 与 Solidity 库的广泛试验生产环境中的持续活跃合约与一次性教程部署无法区分
拍卖受保护资本>$121 million USDT2026-01Messari Report / The Block高证明 FHE 密封投标拍卖合约能够承受显著资本压力一次性投机事件的交易量,并非持续的协议交易需求
已签约金额>$50 million2024-03TechCrunch(CEO 访谈)中体现其在 Web3 生态合作伙伴中的初步商业牵引力粗略估算,包含非现金的协议代币承诺,而非现金 ARR

采用指标综合自 Messari 研究、Dune 链上仪表盘和 TechCrunch 访谈披露;已签约金额包括以代币计价的协议。

[CU002, CU004, CU005]

6.3 已命名部署、机构证明与生产试点

Zama 已在领先 Web3 基础设施和合规供应商中建立了值得注意的生产部署和试点合作。在去中心化金融领域,Zama 为 Steakhouse Financial 开发的 Morpho 上 16 个机密收益金库提供支持,管理跨多种抵押品类型的约 $40 million 受保护资产。为推动机构采用,Zama 于 2026 年 7 月与 Elliptic 合作,引入自动钱包风险筛查,确保受监管资产管理者能在资产进入机密池前执行 AML 和制裁检查。其他生态伙伴包括 Galactica.com,它将 Zama 的 FHE 集成至其 Web3 Identity Stack,用于持续声誉评分;托管服务商 Dfns 则把 Zama 的机密交易能力接入企业钱包客户群。Zama 还通过收购扩大产品覆盖,于 2026 年 5 月收购 TokenOps,提供合规的机密代币归属、空投和企业薪资服务。这些已命名的集成验证了 Zama 的技术可行性,但通过第三方分销渠道实现长期商业变现的路径仍不透明。[CU006, CU007, CU008, CU015]

已命名客户证明表
客户 / 生态合作伙伴细分市场 / 垂直领域部署 / 用例生产环境 vs 试点状态已披露结果 / 指标关键局限 / 风险
Steakhouse Financial / MorphoDeFi 资产管理在 Morpho 上使用 Zama fhEVM 合约的保密 USDC Prime 收益金库生产环境已在 5 类资产中部署 16 个保密收益金库,受保护金额为 $40M受底层法币稳定币冻结风险和中心化发行方控制影响
Elliptic合规与 RegTech面向保密金库的钱包风险筛查及合规设计架构生产环境集成在保密交互前筛查钱包地址,但不暴露密文事前筛查无法阻止存款后的监管制裁或法院冻结
Galactica.com(SwissBorg)Web3 身份与 L1将 Zama FHE 集成到 Web3 Identity Stack,形成持续的私有声誉集成试点为合规 dApp 提供零知识证明与 FHE 身份验证商业部署时间表与用户采用指标仍未经验证
Overnight Finance 生态存款人DeFi 收益协议用于金库管理的保密 USDC 流动性封装器(cUSDC)生产环境(已受干扰)向 cUSDC 封装器存入受保护的 $12.4M特拉华州法院禁令促使 Circle 黑名单冻结 $12.6M 抵押品

部署信息汇总自官方合作伙伴公告与公开事件记录;状态区分了主网运行中的金库、身份试点和被冻结的流动性池。

[CU006, CU007, CU008, CU010, CU011]

6.4 客户接入生命周期与扩张机制

Zama 协议上的客户采用,沿着从开源评估到实时多链运营的五阶段路径推进。开发者首先通过 TFHE-rs 库和 Concrete 框架研究 Zama 的密码学原语,在本地开发环境中模拟机密合约。进入测试网部署后,开发者使用 fhEVM SDK 和测试网水龙头,基准测试加密交易延迟并验证链下协处理器执行。生产应用上线需要集成 Zama Relayer SDK,将标准代币包装成机密 ERC-7984 等价物,并通过阈值密钥管理网络路由交易。上线后,企业扩张由按交易量计费的协议费用模型推动,该模型根据过去 30 天的活动量降低每次操作的解密和零知识验证成本。为突破加密原生开发者圈,Zama 引入自动化合规钩子并收购 TokenOps 等交钥匙工具,降低企业金库和受监管薪资应用的运营门槛。[CU009, CU015]

FU001: 客户旅程与采用生命周期

展示客户从开发者试验到企业机密部署的六阶段采用生命周期。

阶段反映技术指南和商业公告记录的 Zama 开发者及机构接入路径。

[CU009, CU013, CU014, CU015]

6.5 留存持久性、采购摩擦与集中度风险

隐私保护型基础设施的客户留存和持久性面临严峻挑战,根源在于采购复杂度和资本高度集中。Hinkal 等即插即用的结算方案无需修改智能合约,而在 Zama 上构建则必须使用加密数据类型并具备深厚架构能力。这一工程负担造成明显采购摩擦,也拉长了主流企业的实施周期。更严重的是,池化机密包装器带来存续性层面的集中度和监管传染风险。2026 年 5 月下旬,稳定币发行方 Circle 在特拉华州联邦法院针对一名个人存款人的禁令之后,将 Zama 的 cUSDC 合约列入黑名单;该存款人 $12.4 million 的存款占池流动性超过 99%。随后整个池被冻结,锁定了 $12.6 million 总资产,困住无辜第三方存款人,并迫使 Zama 暂时停止相邻的 cUSDT 和 cWETH 合约。Circle 于 2026 年 6 月解除冻结,但这起事件证明,极端存款人集中度叠加中心化资产发行方权力,是机构客户面临的关键运营风险。[CU010, CU011, CU012, CU013, CU014]

6.6 展示材料

Chapter 07

07风险

7.1 监管与法律风险:稳定币可组合性、隐私监管与代币负债

Zama 的主要脆弱点位于去中心化隐私基础设施与中心化金融监管的交界处。2026 年 5 月 30 日,Circle 执行联邦法院临时限制令,针对 Overnight Finance 被指控的 $15.77 million 金库挪用 [CR001]。由于约 $12.4 million 争议资金存入 Zama 的池化 ERC-1967 Confidential USDC(cUSDC)包装器,Circle 将整个智能合约地址列入黑名单 (0xe978F22157048E5DB8E5d07971376e86671672B2),冻结 $12,606,386.10 池化抵押品,并让完全无辜的第三方存款人无法取用 [CR002, CR003]。这一事件证明,公链上的隐私包装器无法实际隔绝中心化资产发行方执行民事诉讼法院命令的影响 [CR004]。尽管司法复核随后认定 Zama 没有不当行为,并于 2026 年 6 月解除冻结,这起事件仍迫使 Zama 紧急整改,加快合规计划并加强 KYC 和 KYT 筛查 [CR005]。此外,Zama Switzerland AG 在 Zug 发布的代币拍卖条款明确警告参与者注意瑞士及国际法下广泛的监管风险,否认所有效用保证,并承认监管机构可能将 Zama Token 认定为未经授权的证券或金融工具 [CR006]。

监管 / 法律风险登记表
规则 / 法律维度司法辖区状态可能性严重程度缓释措施残余风险尽调路径
中心化稳定币合约列入黑名单(Circle / cUSDC 禁令)美国(联邦 / 特拉华州)已有活跃先例;临时冻结于 2026 年 6 月解除高严重隔离高风险存款、强化 KYT 监控,争议期间暂停合约在私人民事诉讼期间,发行方可以不加区分地冻结整个资金池式 ERC-1967 代理封装器审计智能合约隔离机制及与资产发行方签订的法律赔偿协议
瑞士法与全球证券制度下的代币分类瑞士(FINMA)/ 全球拍卖条款依据瑞士司法辖区发布中高拍卖条款明确排除债权、股权、利润分成及支付工具效用监管机构可能将 Zama 功能型代币重新归类为证券或集合投资计划核查瑞士法律意见书及境外证券豁免合规备案
欧盟 MiCA / 反洗钱合规(机密协议)欧盟各成员国均已实施监管框架中高与合规监控平台(Elliptic、Hypernative)合作,并采用选择性披露 ACL禁止完全匿名的交易基础设施,可能压缩欧洲加密业务空间核查 MiCA 白皮书披露,并审阅提交给监管机构的机构审计轨迹

按严重性排序。分析纳入法院文件和瑞士官方拍卖条款。

[CR001, CR002, CR003, CR004, CR005, CR006]
FR001: 风险热力图

将主要风险维度按运营可能性、业务影响和缓解措施成熟度进行映射评估。

矩阵分类综合了已核实的法律争议、技术文档和市场报告。

[CR002, CR006, CR007, CR008, CR010, CR015]

7.2 运营、安全与技术风险:密钥管理、协处理器可靠性与硬件瓶颈

Zama 的机密计算架构依赖复杂的多方计算(MPC)网络和微服务协处理器。在 Zama Protocol 中,FHEVM Coprocessor 服务通过多个微服务在链下执行同态计算,分别负责输入验证、交易分发和事件监听 [CR007]。全同态加密虽然从数学上消除了计算过程中的明文暴露,但密钥管理仍是严重的运营故障点:阈值解密完全依赖去中心化密钥管理系统(KMS)和节点运营者法定人数 [CR008]。官方代币拍卖披露强调,底层软件栈仍处于实验阶段,残留风险包括共识失败、智能合约漏洞、DNS 攻击或私钥丢失;这些问题可能在没有追索手段的情况下摧毁全部资本 [CR009]。 在计算层,同态运算带来的开销使其运行速度约慢于未加密执行 100 倍,在通用 CPU 上造成严重吞吐瓶颈,因此团队仍需持续推进硬件加速,目标是定制 FPGA 同态处理单元(HPU)[CR010]。

运营 / 质量 / 安全风险登记表
失效模式可能性严重性缓解措施成熟度残余暴露未解决缺口
KMS 阈值解密法定人数串通或密钥丢失低严重发展中MPC 网络故障或密钥丢失会永久阻断机密状态解密生产环境中运行 KMS 节点的独立验证者运营方数量
FHEVM 协处理器微服务执行中断中高中等链下微服务故障会停止异步 FHE 交易验证和事件处理峰值负载下协处理器节点的故障转移冗余指标及延迟基准
FHE 计算延迟与硬件加速不足高高早期阶段100x 的开销使 FHEVM 在没有专用 ASIC/FPGA 时只能用于低吞吐区块链操作自研 SystemVerilog HPU 芯片的量产流片计划和单位经济性
实验性密码学代码与智能合约漏洞利用中高发展中TFHE-rs 或 Solidity 封装中的漏洞可能导致资产被转走或状态损坏覆盖全部 FHEVM v0.10 合约库的全面第三方审计

按严重性排序。技术架构取自 Zama 文档和代码库。

[CR007, CR008, CR009, CR010]

7.3 合作伙伴集中、财务不确定与执行脆弱

Zama 的商业扩张高度依赖合作伙伴,变现情况也不透明。协议的机密 DeFi 战略严重依赖第三方策展方和流动性伙伴,包括 Morpho、Steakhouse Financial、Wintermute 旗下 Armitage 和 Flowdesk;这些伙伴覆盖 16 个机密收益金库 [CR011]。Morpho 或底层策展方一旦出现运营中断、智能合约被攻破或遭监管执法,都会直接威胁 Zama 的费用收入和协议采用 [CR012]。财务方面,Zama 在 pre-seed、seed 和 $73m Series A 阶段合计融资 $81m,对应估值约 $300m–$400m [CR013]。但经核实的财务指标仍不透明:第三方数据库估算其 ARR 为 $26.5m、员工 176 人;Zama 从未公布经审计的收入数据,CEO Rand Hindi 此前也承认,已签合同大多以波动性较高的客户代币计价,而非稳定法币 [CR014,CR015]。因此,如果代币收入在企业 Web2 和医疗 AI 用例达到商业规模前贬值,Zama 将面临高额现金消耗和估值压顶。

合作伙伴 / 依赖风险登记表
依赖项交易对手方角色集中度失效场景严重性缓解措施残余暴露
法币稳定币发行方Circle (USDC)cUSDC 封装的底层抵押品发行方高(初始机密流动性的 >90%)单方面列入黑名单会锁死多用户代理合约严重多资产金库扩展至 USDT、WBTC、AUSD 和 tGBPUSDC 仍是 DeFi 中占主导地位的稳定币抵押品
借贷与金库基础设施Morpho Protocol承载 16 个机密金库的核心信贷协议严重(机密金库套件的 100%)智能合约漏洞利用或治理失败会停止金库运营高在五家独立承保机构之间分散管理方Zama 收益套件在 Morpho 之外缺乏多协议冗余
风险筛选与做市Steakhouse Financial, Wintermute, Flowdesk抵押品风险承保与流动性管理前三大管理方整体为高管理方坏账事件或金库敞口定价错误中采用经验证公共金库的混合金库设计机密性掩盖了对第三方偿付能力的实时监控

按严重性排序。取自公开金库架构公告和链上池构成。

[CR002, CR011, CR012]

7.4 图表

Chapter 08

08估值

8.1 投资主张、反主张与建议框架

Zama 的深科技投资主张很有吸引力,核心是其在全同态加密(FHE)领域的品类定义级领先地位。借助纯 Rust 编写的 TFHE-rs 库和 FHEVM 框架,Zama 让开发者无需高深密码学背景,就能在以太坊虚拟机链的加密状态上执行机密智能合约 [CV005]。商业化早期已显示出开发者需求:公司宣布商业发布六个月内,已签合同金额超过 $50m [CV004]。运营规模也大幅扩张,从 Series A 时的 75 名员工增至 251 人。机构尽调的反主张同样尖锐,集中在收入质量和治理风险:客户合同大多以波动性较高的项目代币计价,而非经常性法币软件许可 [CV004];链上运营也容易受到中心化稳定币干预 [CV006,CV007]。2026 年 5 月 30 日,Circle 执行联邦法院命令,将 Zama 的 cUSDC 合约列入黑名单,冻结多用户代理抵押品中的 $12.6m,暴露出严重的可组合性风险 [CV006,CV007]。鉴于这些风险尚未解决,我们给出“继续研究”建议,置信度中等,风险评级为高 [CV013]。

建议汇总表
维度评估证据锚点决策含义
建议继续研究Series B 投后估值 $1.0B,但经核实的经常性现金收入证据尚未充分在经审计的 SaaS ARR 和代币变现机制得到验证前,不作出资金承诺
信心中TFHE-rs 已验证的密码学护城河,与商业化和代币信息不透明形成对照保持主动跟踪,同时争取直接取得领投机构材料
风险评级高Circle 锁定 cUSDC 代理抵押品中的 $12.6M,说明可组合性被冻结要求任何已投入资金或协议流动性均有结构化法律隔离
估值立场偏高相比公开市场安全软件可比公司(1.3x–3.9x),$1.0B 估值隐含很高的深科技增长倍数寻找相对 $1.0B Series B 估值有显著折价的二级市场购买机会
目标期限 / 行动12–18 个月观察主网上线、硬件芯片开发和代币发行计划在 2025–2026 年进行若企业法币 ARR 超过 $25M 且毛利率持续高于 80%,重新评估是否上调判断

基于 Series A、Series B 融资记录、商业合同和可比软件倍数,综合形成投资立场。

[CV001, CV002, CV003, CV004, CV006, CV007, CV013]
正方论点 / 反方论点表
战略支柱投资论点(乐观视角)反论点(悲观视角)转向 / 证伪触发条件
技术护城河围绕 TFHE-rs 和 FHEVM 构建的先发开发者生态;支持端到端加密的智能合约执行同态计算开销仍显著高于未加密计算,若没有定制 ASIC 芯片,扩展能力受限专用硬件投入生产,使吞吐量超过每秒 10,000 笔交易
商业模式上线六个月内,已在多个区块链和 Web3 项目中签下超过 $50M 的合同金额合同大量以波动性较高的客户代币计价,而不是以可预测、现金结算的 SaaS 经常性订阅收入计价独立审计师验证年化现金软件收入超过 $20M
市场估值全球首家 FHE 独角兽(估值 $1.0B),由一线加密风投 Pantera 和 Blockchange 支持公开安全软件可比公司的 EV/Revenue 为 1.3x 至 3.9x,显示倍数大幅压缩风险一线受监管银行或大型国防承包商采用 Zama 机密层
法律与监管选择性披露架构在不暴露用户数据的前提下满足合规和可审计性要求中心化资产发行方可依据私人民事法院禁令,单方面冻结汇集式隐私封装取得完整监管许可并重构协议,阻止第三方将抵押品列入黑名单

将核心投资论点与可核实的运营、商业和监管反证进行对比评估。

[CV004, CV005, CV006, CV007, CV009, CV010, CV014]

8.2 融资历史、股权结构表变化与入场纪律

Zama 通过一轮轮融资,为资本密集型密码学研发提供资金。2024 年 3 月,公司完成由 Multicoin Capital 和 Protocol Labs 共同领投的 7300 万美元 Series A,投后估值接近 4 亿美元 [CV001]。在此基础上,Zama 于 2025 年 6 月完成 5700 万美元 Series B,由 Pantera Capital 和 Blockchange Ventures 共同领投,投后估值达到 10 亿美元,跻身独角兽 [CV002]。公司披露的机构股权轮累计融资超过 1.5 亿美元 [CV003];但未经核实的融资聚合平台援引一笔未确认的 2026 年 ICO,给出的数字最高达 3.98 亿美元 [CV008]。在 10 亿美元估值下,入场纪律至关重要:主网上线仍处于测试网阶段的基础设施协议若按完整独角兽价格买入,一旦代币分配模式与股权持有人的价值积累脱钩,后期投资者将承受严重下行风险 [CV002,CV013]。投资者在投入成长资本前,必须要求清晰的股权结构、核实二级市场估值,并明确代币转股权机制 [CV013]。

FV001: 推荐逻辑

这条决策链把 Zama 的密码学创新、早期商业合同、法律冻结风险和财务不透明串起来,最终指向继续研究的判断。

节点 / 连接节点 / 起点终点说明
节点 1 密码学护城河:TFHE-rs 与 FHEVM 库领先 [crypto-primitive]
节点 2 商业信号:据报道,已签合同金额超过 $50M [contract-traction]
节点 3 可组合性摩擦:Circle 黑名单冻结 cUSDC 中的 $12.6M [freeze-vulnerability]
节点 4 估值标记:投后估值 $1.0B 的 B 轮融资 [unicorn-valuation]
节点 5 财务不透明:代币计价占比高,且没有经审计的 ARR [dilution-opacity]
节点 6 最终决策:继续研究 / 估值偏高 [research-more]
连接 1 密码学护城河:TFHE-rs 与 FHEVM 库领先 [crypto-primitive]商业信号:据报道,已签合同金额超过 $50M [contract-traction]
连接 2 商业信号:据报道,已签合同金额超过 $50M [contract-traction]可组合性摩擦:Circle 黑名单冻结 cUSDC 中的 $12.6M [freeze-vulnerability]
连接 3 可组合性摩擦:Circle 黑名单冻结 cUSDC 中的 $12.6M [freeze-vulnerability]估值标记:投后估值 $1.0B 的 B 轮融资 [unicorn-valuation]
连接 4 估值标记:投后估值 $1.0B 的 B 轮融资 [unicorn-valuation]财务不透明:代币计价占比高,且没有经审计的 ARR [dilution-opacity]
连接 5 财务不透明:代币计价占比高,且没有经审计的 ARR [dilution-opacity]最终决策:继续研究 / 估值偏高 [research-more]

这条逻辑链展示了如何在治理和估值风险的掣肘下衡量技术实力。

[CV002, CV004, CV005, CV006, CV007, CV013]

8.3 可比倍数、市场基准与情景分析

要给 Zama 的 $1.0b 估值找基准,需要同时看公开市场网络安全可比公司和私有区块链基础设施融资。Mitek Systems(3.8x EV/Revenue)、Yubico(3.9x EV/Revenue)和 Asiainfo Security(1.3x EV/Revenue)等公开市场网络安全与身份服务商,交易倍数温和,通常为个位数,反映其已有现金流和成熟软件利润率 [CV009]。相比之下,Taiko Labs(估值 $1.0b)等私有 Web3 同行享有溢价,背后是投机性代币上行空间和深科技稀缺性 [CV010]。由于 Zama 经核实的现金 ARR 尚未披露,其 $1.0b 估值意味着超过 30x 远期软件收入的激进企业倍数 [CV002,CV009]。在乐观情景下,主网成功上线,并借助硬件加速在 EVM 链和 Solana 上达到每秒 10,000+ 笔交易,将打开广泛的金融应用,推动估值升至 $2.0b–$2.5b [CV011]。反之,在悲观情景下,计算延迟长期偏高、监管机构反复将合约列入黑名单,估值将回落至约 $400m 的 Series A 估值底线 [CV001,CV006,CV012]。

乐观 / 基准 / 悲观情景表
情景概率权重关键运营假设隐含估值 / 倍数下行与退出触发条件
乐观情景25%主网上线触发多链 EVM 和 Solana 的大规模采用;定制 ASIC 硬件达到 10k+ TPS;代币发行累积流动价值$2.0B - $2.5B(Series B 估值的 2.0x–2.5x)生态代币发行事件带来流动性分配;企业授权扩展到医疗健康和 AI
基准情景50%细分隐私 DeFi 的开发者吸引力稳步提升;企业试点仍处于测试阶段;硬件加速于 2026 年交付$900M - $1.1B(与 Series B 估值持平;预估未来收入的 15x–20x)增长陷入平台期;公司需要结构化的内部人平轮融资或可转债延期,以维持研发现金跑道
悲观情景25%计算延迟抑制采用;监管机构反复列入黑名单使 DeFi 流动性瘫痪;代币市场无法支撑协议资本化$350M - $500M(下轮融资回落至约 $400M 的 Series A 估值底部)倍数严重压缩;现金消耗迫使公司进行防御性下轮融资或折价出售密码学专利资产

以 Series A 和 Series B 入场价格及历史硬件开发周期为基准,建立按概率加权的估值情景。

[CV001, CV002, CV006, CV009, CV011, CV012]

8.4 退出准备度、确认性尽调要求与主张失效触发器

Zama 的流动性路径分成两条:传统企业软件收购,或公开协议代币生成事件。云基础设施或半导体硬件领域的战略买家可能看中 Zama 的专有 FHE 编译 IP,但公司近期聚焦区块链代币化和公开测试网部署,表明生态代币发行才是更偏好的流动性路径 [CV002,CV004]。不过,持续存在的法律和财务模糊地带拖累了机构退出准备度 [CV006,CV013]。确认性尽调必须回答三项关键问题:第一,审计经常性现金软件 ARR,并与波动的客户代币收入区分开 [CV004];第二,核查完整股权结构中的清算优先权,以及股权与代币的分配机制 [CV002];第三,验证针对中心化稳定币代理冻结的法律保护措施 [CV006,CV007]。一旦出现以下主张失效条件,就应立即下调评级:监管执法将协议代币认定为未注册证券、失去关键硬件协处理器伙伴,或股权在下轮融资中被重新定价至 5 亿美元以下 [CV006,CV012]。

8.5 图表

免责声明

本报告是基于公开证据的尽调快照,不构成投资建议。重要的财务、法律、技术和合同事实仍未公开,任何投资决策前都应直接向管理层及一手文件核实。

证据索引

结论
编号陈述可信度来源
CO001 Zama was founded in 2020 in Paris, France, by Dr. Rand Hindi and Dr. Pascal Paillier to build open-source fully homomorphic encryption infrastructure for blockchain and artificial intelligence. 高 SO001, SO002
CO002 Dr. Rand Hindi serves as CEO and holds a PhD in bioinformatics, having previously founded AI voice platform Snips prior to its acquisition by Sonos. 中 SO001
CO003 Dr. Pascal Paillier serves as CTO and is a renowned cryptographer who invented the Paillier cryptosystem and holds approximately 25 patent families in cryptographic engineering. 高 SO001, SO002
CO004 Zama raised an $8 million seed round, followed by a $73 million Series A in March 2024 co-led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs at an equity valuation approaching $400 million. 中 SO001
CO005 In June 2025, Zama completed a $57 million Series B funding round led by Pantera Capital at a $1.0 billion post-money valuation, bringing lifetime equity financing to over $138 million. 中 SO002, SO008
CO006 Zama's investor syndicate includes venture firms Multicoin Capital, Protocol Labs, Pantera Capital, Hack VC, and Metaplanet, alongside angel participants Juan Benet, Gavin Wood, and Anatoly Yakovenko. 高 SO001, SO002, SO007
CO007 Zama reported signing north of $50 million in contract value within six months of commercialization in late 2023 and early 2024 across fiat enterprise and token-denominated blockchain agreements. 中 SO001
CO008 While third-party publisher GetLatka estimated Zama's 2025 revenue run-rate at $26.4 million, Zama has not publicly published audited financial statements or GAAP revenue figures. 低 SO008
CO009 Zama's workforce expanded to approximately 75 employees in early 2024 and reached 96 or more specialized team members, including 37 PhD holders, by late 2025. 高 SO001, SO002
CO010 In June 2026, stablecoin issuer Circle blacklisted Zama's Confidential USDC (cUSDC) smart contract following an emergency Delaware court injunction involving an Overnight Finance civil dispute, freezing $12.6 million in pooled funds. 中 SO003
CO011 In response to the Circle cUSDC freeze, Zama temporarily paused its native cUSDT and cWETH wrappers as a precautionary measure while working with compliance channels to isolate the disputed capital. 中 SO003
CO012 Zama launched its production protocol on Ethereum mainnet in late December 2025, initiating the $ZAMA token auction on January 12, 2026. 中 SO002, SO009
CO013 In September 2026, Zama partnered with Morpho and curators Steakhouse Financial, Armitage, Flowdesk, RockawayX, and Bitwise to launch 16 confidential vaults and deploy the Zama Swap Protocol. 中 SO006, SO004
CO014 Unlike zero-knowledge proofs that cannot compute over shared multi-party encrypted state and trusted execution environments that rely on hardware security, Zama's TFHE architecture enables direct computation over encrypted data. 中 SO002, SO007
CM001 Zama's confidential protocol operates a suite of open-source libraries and live applications including 16 confidential yield vaults deployed on Morpho across five curators. 中 SM001
CM002 Zama signed north of $50 million in contract value within six months of commercialization in 2024, primarily from blockchain clients with pricing charged in tokens or per-transaction. 高 SM002, SM004
CM003 While Zama leadership views machine learning as its larger long-term addressable market, initial commercial adoption has been concentrated in blockchain infrastructure. 中 SM002
CM004 On May 30, 2026, Circle blacklisted Zama's cUSDC smart contract under a U.S. federal court order, freezing $12.6 million in assets and disabling withdrawals for unaffected depositors. 中 SM003
CM005 Centralized asset blacklists represent a critical composability and operational constraint for confidential DeFi protocols where user funds are pooled and commingled. 中 SM003
CM006 Third-party industry research estimates the blockchain privacy computing market will expand from $9.42 billion in 2025 to $23.31 billion by 2033 at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 12%. 中 SM004
CM007 Enterprise confidential computing adoption faces a substantial implementation bottleneck, with 75% of adopting organizations reporting a shortage of specialized cryptographic expertise. 中 SM004
CM008 JP Morgan tested Zama's fully homomorphic encryption stack in Project EPIC to validate compliant, confidential tokenized asset trading in institutional finance. 中 SM004
CM009 Zama's total value shielded surpassed $100 million in October 2026, marking a 3.6x expansion over 90 days driven by institutional vaults and confidential stablecoins. 中 SM005, SM007
CM010 The secure multiparty computation market is projected by ResearchAndMarkets to grow from $1.04 billion in 2025 to $1.18 billion in 2026 and reach $1.96 billion by 2030 at a 13.4% CAGR. 中 SM006
CM011 Shielded protocol TVL does not translate directly into ZAMA token demand because the $100 million in deposits is held in wrapped third-party assets rather than native token purchases. 中 SM007
CM012 Zama operates with a circulating supply of approximately 2.55 billion tokens against an 11.31 billion total supply, creating an overhang of future token emissions. 中 SM007, SM009
CM013 Base FHE smart contract execution throughput on Ethereum is constrained to approximately 20 transactions per second pending hardware acceleration via FPGAs and ASICs. 中 SM008
CM014 Zama's protocol economy utilizes a burn-and-mint mechanism where transaction fees paid in ZAMA are burned and network operators receive newly minted rewards. 中 SM005, SM008
CM015 As of October 2026, Zama Protocol trades at a market capitalization of $194.23 million with a fully diluted valuation of $867.14 million based on an 11.315 billion total token supply. 中 SM009
CP001 Zama's FHEVM core framework provides homomorphic encryption infrastructure enabling EVM-compatible confidential smart contracts with encrypted state and transaction execution. 中 SP003
CP002 Enterprise blockchain confidentiality architectures divide into three primary approaches: Zama's FHE developer tooling, Hinkal's multi-chain confidential settlement, and NEAR's private shard execution. 中 SP002
CP003 Hinkal operates a non-custodial confidential settlement layer shielding sender, recipient, and transfer amounts across multiple chains with over $400 million in processed private volume. 中 SP002
CP004 Zama's FHEVM achieves approximately 20 TPS in current operations with a roadmap targeting 1,000 TPS, whereas NEAR exhibits 40-80 TPS and Hinkal inherits base chain speeds. 中 SP002
CP005 Zama co-founder and CTO Dr. Pascal Paillier holds approximately 25 patent families in homomorphic encryption, establishing a proprietary IP foundation alongside venture funding. 中 SP004
CP006 Zama requires per-chain FHE deployment and custom coprocessors, while Hinkal enables multi-chain confidential settlement with zero recipient setup across existing user wallets. 中 SP002
CP007 Zama co-founder Rand Hindi characterized early-stage competitive dynamics in homomorphic encryption as coopetition focused on expanding total market adoption. 中 SP004
CP008 Hinkal enforces deposit-level Chainalysis KYT and provides selective viewing keys for auditors, while Zama integrates application-level ACLs and on-chain monitoring. 中 SP002
CP009 Zama commercializes its cryptographic technology through token fees on public blockchain layers and transaction fees for private blockchain deployments. 中 SP004
CP010 Zama's native token ZAMA launched via an encrypted Dutch auction raising approximately $121 million before trading in the low $0.03 range at a $70M-$75M market capitalization. 中 SP001
CP011 By September 2026, secondary market trading priced ZAMA at approximately $0.075 with a market capitalization of around $191 million amidst distinct online search ambiguity. 中 SP007
CP012 On May 30, 2026, Circle blacklisted Zama's cUSDC contract pursuant to a federal court order in a civil dispute, freezing 12,606,386.10 USDC across the pooled proxy wrapper. 中 SP005, SP006
CP013 Public web search records for Zama capture distinct namesake entities including Philadelphia's Zama Sushi and Tulum's Selva Zama Mondo development. 中 SP007, SP008
CI001 Zama commercializes fully homomorphic encryption solutions across open-source developer libraries, confidential EVM smart contract infrastructure, and enterprise privacy deployments. 高 SI004, SI006
CI002 Zama reported signing north of $50 million in contract value within six months of commercialization, with billing structured in native tokens for web3 clients and per transaction for private enterprise banks. 中 SI005
CI003 The Zama Protocol utility token $ZAMA functions as the payment asset for network encryption, decryption, and verification fees under an oracle-priced burn-and-mint economic architecture. 高 SI003, SI004
CI004 Network coprocessors and key management system nodes run by partners including Ledger, Fireblocks, Etherscan, and LayerZero receive minted token rewards while 100 percent of protocol encryption and decryption fees are burned. 高 SI003, SI004
CI005 Because early commercial contracts were denominated primarily in client tokens rather than fiat currency, Zama's $50 million contract value constitutes an unaudited estimate exposed to token price volatility. 中 SI005
CI006 Over 3,000 developers were reportedly building with Zama's four open-source cryptographic libraries on GitHub prior to mainnet deployment. 中 SI005, SI006
CI007 In January 2026, Zama conducted a confidential sealed-bid Dutch auction on Ethereum mainnet attracting 11,103 independent bidders and $118.5 million in committed capital at a clearing price of $0.05 per ZAMA token. 中 SI001
CI008 Zama's sealed-bid auction application temporarily achieved $121 million in total shielded value and ranked as the highest transaction volume application on Ethereum on January 24, 2026. 中 SI001
CI009 Zama maintains a research and engineering staff of 120 people, including 40 employees holding PhDs in cryptography and related fields, representing a substantial fixed personnel burn rate. 高 SI004, SI005
CI010 Homomorphic encryption operations require specialized hardware acceleration via GPUs and future ASIC chips to overcome significant computational latency and server processing cost hurdles. 中 SI001, SI002
CI011 Zama raised $57 million in Series B financing co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital in June 2025, bringing its cumulative funding to over $150 million and valuing the company above $1 billion. 中 SI002
CI012 Prior to its Series B round, Zama raised $73 million in a Series A equity financing in March 2024 co-led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs at a valuation approaching $400 million. 中 SI001, SI005
CI013 Private financial statements, cap table ownership details, and verified secondary share transaction volumes for Zama remain restricted to accredited investor platforms. 中 SI009
CI014 On May 30, 2026, stablecoin issuer Circle executed a U.S. federal court injunction blacklisting Zama's Confidential USDC smart contract and freezing 12,606,386.10 USDC in collateral. 中 SI007, SI008
CI015 The Circle blacklisting targeted an address associated with Overnight Finance that represented over 99 percent of Zama's pooled cUSDC wrapper liquidity, causing indiscriminate freezing of unaffected multi-user funds. 中 SI007
CE001 FHEVM is the core framework of the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol, enabling confidential smart contracts on EVM-compatible blockchains using fully homomorphic encryption. 中 SE001
CE002 All FHE operations in FHEVM are executed symbolically on the host blockchain, while actual computations on encrypted data are offloaded asynchronously to an off-chain coprocessor. 中 SE001
CE003 Decryption in FHEVM is managed via a Key Management System (KMS) using multi-party computation (MPC) to secure threshold key generation and decryption against individual malicious parties. 中 SE001
CE004 FHEVM supports encrypted integers with up to 256 bits of precision and provides a full range of comparison, boolean, and arithmetic operators for smart contracts. 中 SE001
CE005 Zama's open-source libraries are distributed under the BSD 3-Clause Clear license for development and research, but commercial production use requires purchasing a patent license. 高 SE001, SE004
CE006 Zama developed Concrete ML as an open-source framework compatible with Scikit-learn and PyTorch to enable machine learning training and inference on encrypted data. 高 SE004, SE008
CE007 Zama's core cryptographic stack relies on TFHE-rs, a pure Rust implementation of the TFHE homomorphic encryption scheme supporting integer and boolean arithmetic. 高 SE001, SE006
CE008 Zama's Homomorphic Processing Unit (HPU) is a SystemVerilog-based hardware acceleration implementation targeting the AMD Alveo V80 FPGA board. 中 SE006
CE009 In 2019, Zama co-founders Rand Hindi and Pascal Paillier developed cryptographic algorithms that sped up homomorphic encryption calculations by 100x. 中 SE005
CE010 Zama's confidential protocol suite includes client-side TypeScript SDKs, ERC-7984 confidential token standards, and Hardhat/Foundry contract templates. 高 SE001, SE006
CE011 In April 2026, Zama deployed advanced cryptographic primitives designed to improve transaction throughput and reduce settlement latency in decentralized finance environments. 中 SE002
CE012 Zama deployed Hypernative's Onchain Monitoring and Automated Response platform across its confidential wrappers and host contracts to provide real-time alerting. 中 SE003
CE013 Zama partnered with Elliptic to implement wallet-level KYT and sanctions screening before assets enter confidential protocol wrappers. 中 SE003
CE014 Zama utilizes Amazon Web Services high-performance cloud computing instances to process intensive cryptographic operations required for homomorphic execution. 中 SE008
CE015 On May 30, 2026, Circle blacklisted Zama's cUSDC Ethereum smart contract proxy following a U.S. federal court injunction in a civil dispute involving Overnight Finance. 中 SE007, SE009
CE016 Circle's centralized blacklist action on the ERC-1967 proxy address froze approximately $12.6 million in USDC, preventing unaffected third-party users from accessing their balances. 中 SE007, SE009
CU001 Zama's commercial customer base primarily originates from blockchain protocols and web3 projects requiring confidential smart contracts rather than mainstream enterprise machine learning clients. 中 SU003
CU002 Zama signed more than $50 million in commercial contract value within six months of initiating commercialization, though management acknowledged this figure includes non-fiat protocol tokens. 中 SU003
CU003 Zama charges blockchain customers in native protocol tokens while charging traditional banks using private blockchains on a per-transaction basis. 中 SU003
CU004 Between July 1, 2025 and March 2026, Zama's public testnet processed over 6.9 million transactions and supported the deployment of 27,662 confidential contracts. 高 SU002, SU004
CU005 Zama shielded more than $121 million in USDT on Ethereum during its public utility token auction in January 2026. 高 SU002, SU004
CU006 Zama deployed 16 confidential yield-earning vaults across five curators and five asset classes on Morpho, including the Steakhouse Confidential Prime USDC vault. 高 SU001, SU004
CU007 Zama partnered with Elliptic in July 2026 to integrate automated wallet risk screening into confidential financial applications before users interact with shielded pools. 中 SU001
CU008 Galactica.com partnered with Zama to incorporate Fully Homomorphic Encryption into its Web3 Identity Stack for persistent decentralized reputation. 中 SU007
CU009 Zama employs a volume-based protocol fee model priced in USD and settled in ZAMA utility tokens, discounting per-operation fees for high-volume participants. 中 SU002
CU010 In late May 2026, stablecoin issuer Circle blacklisted Zama's Confidential USDC contract address, freezing approximately $12.6 million in user collateral. 中 SU005, SU008
CU011 Circle's freeze was triggered by an emergency federal court injunction against an individual depositor whose single $12.4 million deposit comprised over 99% of Zama's cUSDC pool. 中 SU005
CU012 Following the cUSDC blacklisting, Zama temporarily paused its cUSDT and cWETH contracts as a risk management precaution before resolving the freeze with Circle in June 2026. 中 SU004, SU005
CU013 Competitor analyses highlight that Zama requires custom smart contract development using specialized encrypted data types, creating higher onboarding friction than plug-and-play settlement SDKs. 中 SU006
CU014 Building custom confidential applications on Zama requires development teams to possess deep cryptographic expertise in FHE execution primitives. 中 SU006
CU015 Zama acquired TokenOps in May 2026 to expand customer adoption into compliant confidential token vesting, airdrops, and treasury distributions. 中 SU004
CR001 A U.S. federal court issued an emergency restraining order in a class action lawsuit against Overnight Finance founder Maxim Ermilov regarding an alleged $15.77 million treasury withdrawal. 中 SR004
CR002 Circle blacklisted Zama's pooled cUSDC proxy smart contract address 0xe978F22157048E5DB8E5d07971376e86671672B2 on May 30, 2026, freezing $12,606,386.10 in USDC collateral. 中 SR004, SR005
CR003 The blacklisting of Zama's pooled ERC-1967 cUSDC proxy contract trapped innocent third-party depositor assets because multi-user funds were commingled inside the privacy wrapper. 中 SR004, SR005
CR004 Zama's FHE privacy infrastructure masks account balances and transfer amounts rather than obfuscating sender and recipient addresses, offering no legal insulation against traditional civil injunctions. 中 SR004
CR005 A federal court subsequently lifted the $12.5M USDC freeze after determining Zama was not a party to the dispute, prompting Zama to launch an accelerated compliance initiative. 中 SR006
CR006 Zama Switzerland AG's token auction terms warn that the Zama Token confers no debt, equity, or revenue rights and disclaim liability for potential securities classification or project termination. 高 SR007, SR001
CR007 Zama's FHEVM Coprocessor architecture distributes execution across distinct microservices for FHE compute, input verification, transaction dispatching, and event listening. 高 SR008, SR001
CR008 Threshold decryption across Zama's confidential protocol depends on a decentralized Key Management System operated through multi-party computation nodes. 高 SR001, SR008
CR009 Zama auction disclosures state that technological components are experimental and vulnerable to consensus attacks, cybercrime, and private key compromises causing total loss. 中 SR007
CR010 FHE computations impose severe computational overhead, and early algorithmic breakthroughs achieved a 100x acceleration that still requires dedicated hardware to reach mass scalability. 中 SR003
CR011 Zama expanded confidential onchain access through 16 curated vaults deployed on Morpho across curators including Steakhouse Financial, Armitage by Wintermute, and Flowdesk. 中 SR001
CR012 Zama's confidential vault model creates structural platform concentration by hosting its flagship credit products and asset wrappers on Morpho protocol infrastructure. 中 SR001, SR004
CR013 Zama has raised $81 million in total funding, culminating in a $73 million Series A round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs at an estimated valuation near $400 million. 中 SR003
CR014 GetLatka estimates Zama's annual recurring revenue at $26.5 million with 176 employees as of September 2025, but notes that Zama does not publicly disclose official revenue. 中 SR002
CR015 Zama CEO Rand Hindi indicated that initial contracts totaling over $50 million in contract value were largely charged in client tokens rather than fiat currency, creating valuation and revenue volatility. 中 SR003
CV001 Zama raised a $73 million Series A round in March 2024 co-led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs at a valuation approaching $400 million. 高 SV004, SV001
CV002 Zama secured a $57 million Series B funding round in June 2025 co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital, achieving a $1 billion post-money valuation. 中 SV007, SV008, SV001
CV003 Total disclosed funding raised by Zama across its equity rounds reached over $150 million following its June 2025 Series B financing. 中 SV007, SV002
CV004 Zama reported signing over $50 million in contract value six months after beginning commercialization, primarily from blockchain customers paying in tokens or per transaction. 中 SV004
CV005 Zama's core FHEVM framework provides confidential smart contracts on EVM-compatible chains with end-to-end encrypted transactions and state. 中 SV005
CV006 In May 2026, stablecoin issuer Circle blacklisted Zama's cUSDC contract pursuant to a federal court order, freezing approximately $12.6 million in user collateral. 中 SV006
CV007 The indiscriminate freezing of Zama's pooled cUSDC proxy wrapper illustrates critical composability and legal vulnerability for privacy-preserving protocols interacting with centralized fiat stablecoins. 中 SV006
CV008 Startup fundraising aggregator records indicate unverified total disclosed funding claims of $398 million citing a 2026 ICO round. 中 SV003
CV009 Public cybersecurity and identity peers trade between 1.3x and 3.9x EV/Revenue, whereas Zama's $1B valuation implies an aggressive enterprise software growth multiple. 中 SV001
CV010 Private blockchain and infrastructure comps such as Taiko Labs trade at $1B valuations, highlighting deep-tech investor appetite for privacy and rollups. 中 SV001
CV011 Under a bull case scenario, Zama mainnet adoption across EVM chains and Solana combined with dedicated hardware acceleration justifies a $2.0B to $2.5B exit valuation. 中 SV008, SV001
CV012 Under a bear case scenario, prolonged regulatory scrutiny and low recurring software revenues compress the valuation down toward the $400M Series A level. 中 SV004, SV006
CV013 The recommended stance on Zama is research-more, reflecting stretched valuation at $1B ahead of audited recurring revenue disclosures and token model clarity. 中 SV001, SV007
CV014 Zama's headcount reached 251 employees according to data aggregators, representing significant operational expansion since its 75-person Series A team. 高 SV002, SV004
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SO001 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M In the latest development, a startup out of Paris called Zama has raised $73 million in a Series A co-led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs at a valuation approaching $400 million.
SO002 BlockEden.xyz Zama Protocol: The FHE Unicorn Building Blockchain's Confidentiality Layer Zama has established itself as the definitive leader in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for blockchain, becoming the world's first FHE unicorn in June 2025 with a $1 billion valuation after raising over $150 million.
SO003 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral On-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed that stablecoin issuer Circle officially added privacy protocol Zama’s Confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract to its central blacklist. The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SO004 Alea Research Zama Vaults & the ZAMA Revenue Line ZAMA carries a fully diluted value of $527M on 11.304B tokens. Run $1B a month across its own pair and the fee retires $23.4M a year, putting that valuation at 22.5 times the burn.
SO005 GitHub zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama A curated list by the team at Zama covering the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol and FHE Research & Development — libraries, research papers, tutorials, and more on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
SO006 Business Insider (Markets) Zama Opens Confidential Access to DeFi's Existing Yield Venues Following June's launch with Morpho and Steakhouse, Zama extends confidential access to 16 curated vaults across five curators and five asset classes, and opens the Zama Swap Protocol for confidential swaps between positions.
SO007 Hack VC Why We Were Early Investors in Zama We invested in Zama because we believe confidentiality is foundational, and not just a niche improvement to blockchains.
SO008 GetLatka Zama AI Revenue 2025: $26.4M Est., $1B Valuation Zama AI has not published its revenue. GetLatka estimates it at about $26.4M a year (December 2025).
SO009 AInvest Zama's Flow Metrics: Contract Value, Token Auction, and Mainnet Adoption The market for blockchain privacy computing is projected to grow from...to an estimated $23.31 billion by 2033, representing a compound annual growth rate of nearly 12%.
SM001 Zama awesome-zama: Curated list of Fully Homomorphic Encryption resources created by the team at Zama Confidential Vault: Deposit into 16 confidential yield-earning vaults across five curators and five asset classes, deployed on Morpho, while keeping your positions shielded onchain
SM002 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M “We started commercialising Zama six months ago, and we have signed north of $50 million in contract value,” said Rand Hindi, Zama co-founder and CEO, in an interview. Although Hindi firmly believes that the longer-term bigger business will be in machine learning, customers so far have primarily come from the blockchain camp
SM003 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral By blacklisting Zama’s proxy code, Circle programmatically blocked every single token inside the address, preventing unaffected users from unwrapping or moving their private cUSDC balances.
SM004 AInvest Zama's Flow Metrics: Contract Value, Token Auction, and Mainnet Adoption Zama operates on a transaction-based pricing model for private applications, which ties revenue flow directly to customer adoption and volume of encrypted computations.
SM005 CoinMarketCap Zama (ZAMA) Price Prediction For 2026 & Beyond Its Total Value Shielded (TVS) crossed $100M on October 5, 2026, a 3.6x increase in 90 days. This reflects real demand from institutional vaults and the launch of confidential USDT.
SM006 ResearchAndMarkets / MENAFN Secure Multiparty Computation (SMPC) Market Report 2026: Global Forecast To 2030 The market is projected to increase from $1.04 billion in 2025 to $1.18 billion in 2026, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.8%... Looking ahead, the secure multiparty computation market is forecast to reach $1.96 billion by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 13.4%.
SM007 AskSurf ZAMA Confidential DeFi Stack Shows Early Adoption Signs The main objection remains that shielded TVL does not automatically equal ZAMA demand. The $100 million sits mostly in confidential versions of other assets, not in ZAMA purchases. The market is right on the product category and wrong when it treats TVL as immediate token value capture.
SM008 Bitrue ZAMA Token Price Forecast Q1–Q4 2026 Technological milestones, specifically hardware acceleration with FPGAs and ASICs, are expected to reach critical stages by Q3. If Zama and its partners can increase throughput from the current 20 TPS to several hundred, the token may see a significant re-rating as FHE moves from a niche cryptographic tool to a commercially viable standard.
SM009 MEXC Zama Protocol Price Today: Live ZAMA to USD Price Chart & Market Data The current Market Cap of Zama Protocol is $ 194.23M, with a 24-hour trading volume of $ 140.75K. The circulating supply of ZAMA is --, with a total supply of 11315900065.30531464. Its Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) is $ 867.14M.
SP001 Phemex ZAMA Price Prediction 2026-2031: Post-Launch Analysis & Phemex Guide Competition from alternative privacy solutions (zk‑based rollups, MPC‑heavy systems, or other FHE projects) that may capture adoption.
SP002 Hinkal Hinkal vs Zama vs Near: Privacy Platforms Compared When enterprise decision-makers evaluate blockchain confidentiality, the choice between Hinkal, Zama, and Near represents fundamentally different philosophies. Hinkal operates as an institutional-grade confidential settlement solution across existing public chains. Zama provides fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) tooling for developers building custom applications. Near Protocol functions as a general-purpose blockchain that has added confidential execution through NEAR Confidential Intents for supported cross-chain transaction flows.
SP003 GitHub (zama-ai) GitHub - zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama. fhevm: Core framework of the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol — enables confidential smart contracts on EVM-compatible chains with end-to-end encrypted transactions and state
SP004 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M | TechCrunch “We are mostly friends with each other,” he said. “The goal is not to fight but to build a market. Coopetition. We see each other at conferences and talk about [it] and one day we will compete but not today.”
SP005 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral - FinanceFeeds On-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed that stablecoin issuer Circle officially added privacy protocol Zama’s Confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract to its central blacklist. The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SP006 Coca Zama Users Locked Out of $12.6M USDC Following Court-Ordered ... On May 30, 2026, Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), implemented a U.S. federal court order to blacklist an Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama's privacy protocol. This move resulted in the freezing of approximately $12.6 million in USDC, leaving Zama users unable to access their funds.
SP007 OneBullEx Zama Sushi Reviews: Philadelphia’s Modern Japanese Dining Experience vs. ZAMA Token Market Confusion As of 2026-09-29 (UTC), ZAMA traded at approximately $0.075 with a market cap of around $191 million and a 24-hour decline of -4.42%. In contrast, Zama Sushi is a well-regarded restaurant in Philadelphia known for its fresh fish and upscale ambiance, with an average check of $35-50 per person.
SP008 Mexico Invest Selva Zama Mondo Review: Aldea Zama Premium from $1.16M Selva Zama represents the upper tier of Aldea Zama's residential hierarchy, leveraging Zamá Desarrollos' position as Aldea Zama master developer with established infrastructure, proven foreign-buyer workflows, and jungle-integrated luxury positioning.
SI001 Bitget News Research Report|In-Depth Analysis and Market Cap of Zama (ZAMA) In January 2026, Zama successfully conducted the world’s first confidential ICO (sealed-bid Dutch auction) on Ethereum mainnet, validating scalability in a production environment. On January 24, the auction application became the highest-transaction-volume application on Ethereum, surpassing USDT and Uniswap.
SI002 Financial IT Zama Raises $57M In Series B To Bring End-to-End Encryption To Public Blockchains Zama, the open-source cryptography company building state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain, today announced a $57 million Series B funding round co-led by two leading U.S.-based investment firms Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital, bringing Zama’s total funding to over $150 million, and its valuation to north of a billion USD.
SI003 Phemex Academy What is ZAMA Token? Complete 2026 Guide to Zama FHE Protocol & Phemex Trading Protocol fees — Paid in ZAMA (priced in USD via oracle) for ZKPoK verification, decryption, and ciphertext bridging; 100% of fees are burned.
SI004 Zama The ticker is $ZAMA The $ZAMA token powers the protocol. It pays for encryption and decryption. It rewards the operators who run the network, companies like Ledger, Fireblocks, Etherscan, and LayerZero who collectively secure over $100B in assets.
SI005 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M “We started commercialising Zama six months ago, and we have signed north of $50 million in contract value,” said Rand Hindi, Zama co-founder and CEO, in an interview. Although Hindi firmly believes that the longer-term bigger business will be in machine learning, customers so far have primarily come from the blockchain camp, so the $50 million is a rough estimate of value since not all of these operate in fiat. “If they have a token, we charge tokens,” he said. “If it’s a bank using a private blockchain, we charge by transaction.”
SI006 GitHub zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama. A curated list by the team at Zama covering the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol and FHE Research & Development — libraries, research papers, tutorials, and more on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
SI007 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral On-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed that stablecoin issuer Circle officially added privacy protocol Zama’s Confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract to its central blacklist. The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SI008 Coca Zama Users Locked Out of $12.6M USDC Following Court-Ordered Blacklist On May 30, 2026, Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), implemented a U.S. federal court order to blacklist an Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama's privacy protocol. This move resulted in the freezing of approximately $12.6 million in USDC, leaving Zama users unable to access their funds.
SI009 EquityZen Invest In Zama Stock | Buy Pre-IPO Shares | EquityZen Zama is a cryptography company building open source FHE solutions. Their flagship Zama Protocol enables confidential applications on top of any L1 or L2, unlocking use cases across confidential payments, tokenization, finance and network states.
SE001 GitHub (zama-ai) GitHub - zama-ai/fhevm: FHEVM, a full-stack framework for integrating Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with blockchain applications FHEVM is the core framework of the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol. It enables confidential smart contracts on EVM-compatible blockchains by leveraging Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), allowing encrypted data to be processed directly onchain.
SE002 AInvest Zama Seeks To Enhance Privacy Infrastructure Amid Rising Institutional Demand Zama has announced the deployment of advanced cryptographic primitives designed to improve scalability in privacy-preserving computation environments. The protocol aims to resolve latency issues that previously hindered widespread adoption in decentralized finance applications.
SE003 Zama Zama Partners with Hypernative to Extend Compliance by Design with Continuous Onchain Monitoring Zama deployed Hypernative’s Onchain Monitoring & Automated Response platform across the Zama confidential wrappers, host contract deployments and DeFi protocols. This integration adds real-time monitoring and business logic specific alerting to the Zama Protocol, giving operators continuous visibility into protocol activity while preserving the confidentiality of assets and transactions.
SE004 Cyber Company Profiles Zama: Funding, Competitors and Strategy Zama's documentation says all of its technologies are patented and that commercial use of the open-source code requires buying a patent license.
SE005 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M | TechCrunch His co-founder Pascal Paillier, Zama’s CTO, is cryptography expert whose patents (he notes he has some 25 patent families to his credit) are being used in smart card and other applications today. Together, the two started work as far back as 2016 on the early technology that would become Zama. The breakthrough, Hindi said, was in 2019 when they arrived at algorithms that sped up calculations by 100x.
SE006 GitHub (zama-ai) GitHub - zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama. hpu: Zama's Homomorphic Processing Unit (HPU) is a SystemVerilog-based hardware implementation targeting AMD Alveo V80 FPGA board.
SE007 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral - FinanceFeeds On-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed that stablecoin issuer Circle officially added privacy protocol Zama’s Confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract to its central blacklist. The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SE008 Amazon Web Services Customer Testimonial: Zama For blockchain, Zama designed Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol, a complete framework for integrating FHE into blockchain apps. This tech lets you make smart contracts that keep sensitive data, like transaction amounts or votes, encrypted throughout the whole process.
SE009 Coca Zama Users Locked Out of $12.6M USDC Following Court-Ordered Blacklist On May 30, 2026, Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), implemented a U.S. federal court order to blacklist an Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama's privacy protocol. This move resulted in the freezing of approximately $12.6 million in USDC, leaving Zama users unable to access their funds.
SU001 Zama Zama Partners with Elliptic to Make Confidential Finance Compliant by Design Zama is partnering with Elliptic, the global leader in blockchain intelligence, to bring trusted compliance screening to confidential financial applications.
SU002 Messari Understanding Zama: A Comprehensive Overview The Zama Protocol employs a volume-based fee model, designed for predictability and affordability, where all protocol fees are priced in USD and settled in ZAMA tokens. Deploying confidential applications is free and permissionless, with fees applied only to three core operations: verifying ZKPs for encrypted inputs, decrypting ciphertexts, and bridging encrypted values across chains.
SU003 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M “We started commercialising Zama six months ago, and we have signed north of $50 million in contract value,” said Rand Hindi, Zama co-founder and CEO, in an interview. Although Hindi firmly believes that the longer-term bigger business will be in machine learning, customers so far have primarily come from the blockchain camp, so the $50 million is a rough estimate of value since not all of these operate in fiat.
SU004 GitHub (Zama) zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama Confidential Vault: Deposit into 16 confidential yield-earning vaults across five curators and five asset classes, deployed on Morpho, while keeping your positions shielded onchain
SU005 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral On-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed that stablecoin issuer Circle officially added privacy protocol Zama’s Confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract to its central blacklist. The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SU006 Hinkal Hinkal vs Zama: FHE Privacy Solutions Compared For enterprises evaluating confidential blockchain settlements, Hinkal offers distinct advantages over building custom FHE applications from Zama's primitives: Immediate deployment capability... Zero counterparty friction... No specialized development expertise required... FHE development requires deep understanding of encrypted computation primitives, adding significant technical overhead to every project.
SU007 Decrypt Galactica.com Partners with Zama to Revolutionize Web3 Identity Stack with Fully Homomorphic Encryption Galactica.com, the official Level 1 (L1) partner of SwissBorg, is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with Zama to integrate Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) into its Web3 Identity Stack.
SU008 Coca Zama Users Locked Out of $12.6M USDC Following Court-Ordered Blacklist On May 30, 2026, Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), implemented a U.S. federal court order to blacklist an Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama's privacy protocol. This move resulted in the freezing of approximately $12.6 million in USDC, leaving Zama users unable to access their funds.
SR001 GitHub GitHub - zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama. kms: Key Management System for the Zama Protocol — decentralized MPC network for FHE key generation and threshold decryption
SR002 GetLatka Zama Revenue 2025: $26.5M Est. Zama has not published its revenue. GetLatka estimates it at about $26.5M a year (September 2025).
SR003 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M | TechCrunch Although Hindi firmly believes that the longer-term bigger business will be in machine learning, customers so far have primarily come from the blockchain camp, so the $50 million is a rough estimate of value since not all of these operate in fiat.
SR004 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama’s cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral - FinanceFeeds On-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed that stablecoin issuer Circle officially added privacy protocol Zama’s Confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract to its central blacklist. The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SR005 Coca Zama Users Locked Out of $12.6M USDC Following Court-Ordered Blacklist On May 30, 2026, Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), implemented a U.S. federal court order to blacklist an Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama's privacy protocol. This move resulted in the freezing of approximately $12.6 million in USDC, leaving Zama users unable to access their funds.
SR006 CryptoNews / CoinBulletin Zama Privacy Protocol Faces $12.5M USDC Freeze in Court Battle - CryptoNews When the court lifted the freeze last week, it marked the end of a months-long period during which Zama operated with significantly constrained liquidity. The ruling did not include any findings of wrongdoing by Zama itself, according to legal documents reviewed.
SR007 Zama Switzerland AG Zama | Token Auction Terms The Participant understands and accepts that blockchain technology may be subject to existing or new regulations, which could substantially modify or terminate the project and lead to loss of the Token or its functionality.
SR008 Zama Protocol Documentation coprocessor | Solidity Guides v0.10 | Zama Protocol FHEVM Coprocessor provides the execution service for FHE computations. It includes a Coprocessor service FHEVM-coprocessor. The Coprocessor itself consists of multiple microservices, e.g. for FHE compute, input verify, transaction sending, listenting to events, etc.
SV001 Multiples Zama Valuation, Funding & Investors | Multiples Zama is currently valued at $1B, based on its Series B in June 2025.
SV002 Tracxn Zama - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding, Competitors & Financials Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Jun 25, 2025 for $57M.
SV003 startupfundraising.com Zama Funding: $398M Raised, ICO (2026) Zama has raised $398M in total disclosed funding.
SV004 TechCrunch Zama's homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M In the latest development, a startup out of Paris called Zama has raised $73 million in a Series A co-led by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs at a valuation approaching $400 million.
SV005 Zama GitHub - zama-ai/awesome-zama: A curated list of amazing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) resources created by the team at Zama. fhevm: Core framework of the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol — enables confidential smart contracts on EVM-compatible chains with end-to-end encrypted transactions and state
SV006 FinanceFeeds Circle Blacklists Zama's cUSDC Contract, Freezing $12.6 Million in Private Civil Dispute Collateral The localized intervention instantly froze 12,606,386.10 USDC, completely locking the underlying ERC-1967 proxy architecture.
SV007 Yahoo Finance Zama secures $57m for blockchain encryption technology The funding, co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital, brings Zama's total funding to more than $150m and its valuation to more than $1bn.
SV008 ChannelLife Zama reaches unicorn status with USD $57 million funding round Zama has raised USD $57 million in a Series B funding round, pushing its valuation above USD $1 billion and achieving unicorn status in the field of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for blockchain applications.