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what's zama?

Zama is an open-source cryptography company specializing in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain applications. It develops the Confidential Blockchain Protocol to enable private smart contracts on any Layer 1 or Layer 2 chain, keeping data encrypted during processing. Through tools like FHEVM, Zama empowers developers to build confidential dApps and fosters innovation via grants and a bounty program.

Snapshot

Zama crypto project listed on Upbit exchange.

10H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on South Korean exchange Upbit with KRW spot trading pair.

6D ago
FINANCIAL EVENT

Launched Developer Program Mainnet Season 2 with 15,000+ cUSDT in rewards distributed across three tracks: Builder Track for confidential dApps, Bounty Track for AI agent skills using FHE, and Special Bounty for APAC community.

2W ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched a trading competition with 11M $ZAMA tokens as rewards.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Experienced a 2.6% decline in token holders over 30 days, with current holder count at 3,800 as of 2026-03-26.

3W ago
PARTNERSHIP

Partners with trex_network, integrating FHE technology as confidentiality protocol for T-REX Ledger RWA platform, with over $100B tokenized assets committed by Apex Group.

1M ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

GSR completed the first confidential OTC trade on Ethereum using Zama's technology.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on HTX exchange with earn program offering up to 5% APY for flexible staking and 100% APY for new users in fixed staking.

PARTNERSHIP

raycashxyz built its onchain fund management platform with encrypted balances and transaction amounts on Zama

TEAM UPDATE

Chief Academic Officer Nigel Smart received the 2026 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics on March 10, 2026.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Burnt 29,228,487 unsold ZAMA tokens from the OG community sale, representing approximately 1.23% of circulating supply.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Staked all tokens unlocked on 2026-03-02 from treasury and growth allocations, bringing total staked ZAMA to approximately 800,000,000 tokens, representing approximately 34% of circulating supply.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Hyperliquid exchange with trading now available.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Hosts Zama Builder Villa event in Cannes from March 30 to April 2, 2026, during EthCC[9], focusing on blockchain privacy with Deloitte and OpenZeppelin.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Kyle Samani, a board member, is participating in an AMA scheduled for 2026-02-19 to discuss onchain privacy and FHE.

2M ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Raydium Perpetuals with up to 10x leverage trading available.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Processed 2.4 million encrypted transactions on testnet in 2024 and 6.7 million transactions total to date.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed, trading 40% below ICO price and 50% down from sale price with inflated FDV dynamics.

FINANCIAL EVENT

launchpool program on Bybit distributes 9M ZAMA tokens as rewards for staking 60-3,000 MNT, ending on 2026-02-08 at 10:00 UTC

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Binance with Seed Tag applied.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Binance, OKX for spot and perpetuals trading, Kraken, Bitget, and Kucoin in February 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Over $100M in total value shielded.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Pre-TGE sale announced for 2% of supply at $0.05 price with $10k participation cap per participant.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Ranks as the second largest gas spender on Ethereum during the auction period on January 24, 2026.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Tokens from the sale unlock on 2026-02-02.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Holds 70% market share in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).

3M ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Enabled participation in the Zama auction through CoinList platform in addition to the native Zama app.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed perpetual contracts on Binance and Bybit for pre-market trading.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Implements a vesting schedule or lock-up period for airdropped tokens, requiring recipients to buy tokens at a discount rather than receiving them freely.

TECH EVENT

Launched wallet registration requiring email confirmation and passport verification.

4M ago

Active testnet stress testing begins with demo application featuring EUROZ token minting, shielding to cEUROZ, and confidential transaction functionality.

Integrated OpenZeppelin Contracts Wizard to generate ERC-7984 confidential fungible tokens using FHE, shipping with fhevm/solidity 0.9.1 upgrade and RWA, Omnibus, Observer Access, Restricted, Freezable extensions.

Deployed fhEVM on devnet with 8-second block times for encrypted inputs. Shipped Confidential Contracts v0.3.0, upgrading fhevm/solidity to 0.9.1 with new extensions, achieving 100x speed boost for on-chain privacy.

Launches Developer Program with Builder and Bounty tracks, offering a $20,000 prize pool. Reveals 2026 roadmap on February 19, 2026, and $ZAMA staking.

Testnet war games concluded and testnet will undergo a big upgrade with many fixes, with another round of testing planned.

The January Dutch auction has a floor price set at $55M FDV.

Registration for the sealed-bid Dutch auction opens December 14, with bidding scheduled for January 12-15 and claims starting January 20, selling 10% of token supply using FHE-powered confidentiality and a clearing price mechanism that refunds bids below the final price.

Creator Program Season 5 is now live with $50,000 prize pool for top 100 creators and 1,006 OG NFTs for top 1,006 creators.

The project operates as a privacy layer on top of existing blockchains like ETH and SOL rather than as a standalone L1 or L2.

Zama uses Conduit blockchain technology to power its FHE decryption infrastructure.

Raised over $150 million at $1 billion valuation from Multicoin and Pantera.

The sealed-bid Dutch auction has gone live on Ethereum with a 55 million floor price, while some prominent accounts warn about coordinated shilling activity from influencers.

Public auction launches Jan 12-15 distributing 10% of supply on Ethereum using FHE protocol, with tokens claimable Jan 20. Mainnet integrates FHE on Ethereum and other chains, expected by year-end.

ZAMA token launches in December with 10% community distribution allocated to reward testnet users and early adopters who engaged with FHE tools.

Tokenomics feature a burn and mint model for operator rewards, with the token used for protocol fees and staking. Staking rewards are part of mainnet integrations.

5M ago

Released teasers for TGE and mainnet launch; TGE approximately 2 years after funding. Season 4 Creator Campaign ends first week of December.

Unit 410 announced as next genesis operator for Zama Protocol, bringing full-service self-custody and staking expertise since 2018 to secure the private FHE key as an MPC Operator supporting crypto-native institutions.

Season 3 Creator Program distributed total rewards of $56,000+ with top 100 sharing $50K, 12 selected creators splitting $6K, and OG NFTs awarded to ranks 1-1000.

Creator Program Season 3 completes with 9,300 creators generating 140,000 posts and over 250 million X impressions, with FHE reaching top 5 most talked about topic in web3. First prize exceeded $4,000.

Artifact Systems announced as next genesis operator, bringing SOC 2 certified institutional infrastructure with private data enclaves and zero-trust architecture. Creator Program Season 4 launches.

OpenZeppelin announced as genesis operator for Zama Protocol, bringing 10 years of blockchain security expertise and smart contract libraries that secure over $32 trillion in value transferred to help secure the private FHE key.

Zama completes acquisition of KakarotZkEvm, uniting zkVM technology with FHE capabilities and adding the team that advanced on-device proof generation and proved the full Ethereum protocol inside a zkVM.

LayerZero becomes genesis operator for Zama Protocol, bringing its interoperability protocol that connects $80B in tokenized assets across 600+ organizations and 150+ blockchains. LayerZero partners with PayPal USD, Google Cloud, and the State of Wyoming.

Ecosystem Builder Demo features tokenGBP (tGBP), a GBP-pegged stablecoin from an FCA-registered cryptoasset firm that uses the Zama Protocol.

BlockscapeLab announced as the next genesis operator, a Swiss validator with 7+ years of experience and $1B+ in AUM running thousands of nodes across Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems. Another genesis operator reveal scheduled for tomorrow.

Season 3 Creators Campaign concludes with "Zama OG" NFT distribution to top 1,000 participants, offering early alpha access and potential $ZAMA allocation. Project raised $150M at $1B valuation.

Stake Capital Group announced as the next genesis operator to help secure the private FHE key powering the protocol, with another genesis operator reveal scheduled for Monday.

A Tester Program launches soon, described as one of the strongest activities to focus on.

Zama hosts events including Zama World's Fair and CoFHE Shop in Buenos Aires alongside EFDevcon conference, with tickets currently on sale.

Etherscan announced as the next genesis operator to help secure the private FHE key powering the protocol, with another genesis operator reveal scheduled for tomorrow.

Zama listed among infrastructure projects planning Token Generation Event between now and end of year.

Dfns Labs announced as next genesis operator to help secure the private FHE key powering the protocol, with another genesis operator reveal scheduled for tomorrow.

OG NFT contains a hidden scan code feature that displays "you're too early" message when scanned, with the claim window not yet opened despite the claim page being live.

P2P Validator announced as fourth genesis operator to help secure the private FHE key that powers the protocol. Fifth genesis operator announcement scheduled for tomorrow.

Season 3 Creators Campaign ends in 5 days, with 1,750 of the 3,500 total NFTs allocated to this campaign and top 1,000 participants receiving "Zama OG" NFT designation with early alpha access and possible token allocation.

OG NFT claim page goes live with 3,500 total supply on Ethereum Mainnet for early developers, researchers, and community members, mint date to be announced.

Conduit announced as second genesis operator to secure FHE key and ensure confidential, verifiable computation.

Zama listed among major upcoming Token Generation Events (TGEs) being watched by crypto traders.

InfStones announced as third genesis operator, supporting validator operations on 80+ blockchains and securing over $5B in assets. Backed by SoftBank, GGV, Dragonfly, HashKey, and SNZ, and trusted by Binance, OKX, Circle, and CoinList.

Protocol operates with 18 genesis operators using Delegated Proof-of-Stake consensus (13 KMS nodes, 5 FHE Coprocessors), with Figment announced as first operator securing over $17B in digital assets for 1,000+ institutional clients. Daily announcements of additional genesis operators scheduled ahead of next release.

Social media engagement reaches 1 million posts about the project in one week.

Major announcement about next milestone scheduled at EFDevcon in Buenos Aires, focused on the future of blockchain confidentiality.

Collaboration with Fhenix and Inco Network on Confidential Token Standard approach using shielded ERC20s, with published research demonstrating sub-second latency for millions of users in anonymity sets. FHE-native approaches for anonymity features are under active development.

6M ago

TGE targeted for end of year. Season 3 Creator Program distributes $56K in rewards: $50K to top 100 creators, $6K to 6 selected winners, and OG NFTs for ranks 101-1000.

Achieves top 20 mindshare ranking across all leaderboards with 99.6% positive sentiment.

Market participants are positioning for the project to join the current privacy narrative rotation alongside $ZEC and $RAIL, indicating anticipated trading attention in the privacy sector.

FHEVM repository is trending on GitHub. A TEE vs FHE debate featuring Zama representatives is scheduled for tomorrow at 5pm GMT.

Raised $130 million in funding with public testnet currently ongoing and TGE timing to be determined.

Creator Program Season 2 ends with 65 million total impressions and winners announced.

Launches Creator Program Season 3 for community builders and developers.

Zama appears on a list of projects targeting Q4 TGE launches in the infrastructure category.

Protocol metrics show 855K transactions, 15.1K contracts, 114.9K users, and 1.1 Sepolia ETH in total transaction fees.

Announces major FHE performance breakthrough achieving sub-1ms bootstrapping and 230 tps, with plans to reach 1000 tps within months and 100k tps by 2029.

7M ago

Partnership with ImHuman and DeepSea AI Network announced for real human verification and Confidential AI applications within the ecosystem.

Announces target of achieving 10% confidential blockchain transactions using their FHE technology as outlined in recent leadership interview.

Sponsors RWA Singapore event with Director of Business Development Antoine Hello speaking at the conference.

The creator program includes retroactive rewards with NFT airdrops for previous content creators and cash payments for heavy contributors who posted about the project before the program launch.

New Creator Program launches with $50k monthly rewards, distributing significant $ZAMA token supply over multiple years through anti-bot contest mechanism.

Development team reveals blockchain scalability, not FHE, consumes 90% of protocol development resources.

New benchmarks show competitor outperforming current FHE implementations by 2x.

Controls 70% of FHE tooling market share while building universal blockchain privacy layer.

€10,000 bounty program launches for developing privacy-focused transaction batching bot, with 1 week remaining for submissions.

8M ago

Custom ZK scheme achieves sub-2-second proof generation, significantly faster than existing solutions requiring tens of seconds.

Protocol expansion to Ethereum and other EVM chains scheduled for end of year, with chain-agnostic infrastructure supporting cross-chain deployment.

Protocol secures $150M+ funding at $1B+ valuation, with mainnet and token launch scheduled for Q4; implements deflationary mechanism burning 100% of protocol fees.

Community grows 566% in 2 weeks, reaching 200k followers.

New partnership with OpenZeppelin established to enhance smart contract security and privacy features.

9M ago

Testnet achieves 1 million FHE computations milestone, representing 67% increase from previous metrics.

Fake token trading on PancakeSwap reaches 60M FDV, posing immediate risk to traders.

Warning: Fake tokens circulating while no official token exists yet.

Testnet processes 600,000 FHE operations in 72 hours while experiencing ongoing decryption issues.