what's zama?
Zama is an open-source cryptography company specializing in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions tailored for blockchain applications. FHE enables computations on encrypted data without decryption, allowing for privacy-preserving smart contracts and transactions. Zama's technology addresses key challenges in blockchain privacy by integrating FHE into existing ecosystems, supporting confidential operations on Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks. The Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol is their flagship offering, providing a framework for building end-to-end encrypted applications on public blockchains. It includes tools like the fhEVM for Ethereum-compatible confidential computing, enabling developers to create privacy-focused dApps such as confidential auctions, lending protocols, and stablecoins. Zama emphasizes open-source development and ecosystem partnerships to drive adoption of programmable privacy in decentralized finance and beyond.
Zama discussed privacy, FHE, Ethereum L2, mainnet, T-REX partnership in a recent podcast.
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x.com/zamaFeatured in an interview/podcast with therollupco discussing privacy technology, FHE technology, Ethereum L2 plans, mainnet plans, and T-REX partnership details.
Ranked 8th among Ethereum-based ecosystem projects by development activity in Santiment's monthly analysis, moving up from the previous month's ranking.
Partnered with T-REX Network to use Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for private tokenized real-world assets, involving $100B in value.
Participates in a live discussion with Protocol Labs and Protocol Labs Genesis on March 25, 2026.
Participates in EthCC on 2026-03-30; hosts live demo of confidential agentic payments with Ledger at Ledger HQ on 2026-04-14, live on mainnet.
Featured as a speaker at the OpenClaw Meetup Paris on March 19, 2026, with over 400 attendees expected.
Ranked 4th among top 10 privacy coin projects by development activity in Santiment's latest update.
GSR executed first confidential OTC trade on Ethereum, enabling settlement without revealing size, direction, or asset while maintaining AML/KYC compliance.
Offers a $5,000 grant for the best implementation of an onchain payroll solution built using the Zama Protocol, with core team support included.
Opens 11M ZAMA token airdrop claims on OKX on 2026-02-18; launches trading event on OKX DEX with 11M ZAMA token prize pool from 2026-03-25 to 2026-04-01.
releases 2026 roadmap on February 19th
Processed 2.4M encrypted transactions on testnet in 2024 and 6.7M encrypted transactions total to date.
Surpassed 4,000 token holders on Ethereum.
Listed on HTX exchange with ZAMA/INX futures trading pair and a $20,000 trading contest.
Offers an 18.7 million ZAMA Trade-and-Earn pool on OKX.
Listed on Bybit spot trading on February 2nd, 2026.
Deposits opened via ETH and SOL chains on Bybit.
Reached $121M+ in Total Value Shielded.
Public sale starts on January 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM UTC
Launches $ZAMA token via a sealed-bid Dutch auction on 2026-01-21, with the auction mechanism built on the Zama Protocol.
Currently achieves 20 TPS per chain.
Hosting AMA on 2026-01-12 at 8 PM KST with founder Rand Hindi.
Transitioned from an R&D company to a blockchain protocol with assistance from investor Kyle Samani.
Listed among 4 upcoming ICOs to watch alongside xmaquina, solsticefi, and ranger_finance in a daily crypto market roundup.
Nominated for Best In Privacy award at The Rollup awards ceremony scheduled for December 30, 2025.
The token sale starts with a floor FDV of $50-55mm, with the 10% allocation split into 8% for the sealed-bid Dutch auction and 2% for a fixed-price sale.
Conducted token public auction January 12-15 with claims January 20, allocating 10% of supply, receiving $118.5M commitments at a clearing price of $0.05. Token trades at $0.017, with utility for encryption/decryption fees, staking/delegation, and securing FHE nodes, via a fully encrypted ICO on Ethereum.
Developed ERC-7984 confidential token standard with Confidential Token Association, Inco, and OpenZeppelin for private swaps, deposits, and yield farming; also released v0.4 Confidential Contracts library with BatcherConfidential for private aggregate routing.
Deployed fhEVM on devnet with 8-second block times, enabling EVM-compatible smart contracts for encrypted inputs using quantum-resistant FHE, NIST accepted. Achieved 100x FHE speed improvement in 2025.
Season 5 of the Creator Program offers $53,000 shared among top 100 creators and distributes 1,006 Zama OG NFTs to top 1,006 creators.
A CoFHE Shop event in Buenos Aires featured discussions between Juan Benet and analog_kyle on FHE technology and decentralized computation applications.
Partnered with Conduit to deploy first FHE protocol mainnet before January 12, 2025, with tokens usable for encryption fees, staking, or delegation.
100% of purchased tokens unlock at TGE with no vesting schedule.
Auction runs January 12-15 with token claims on January 20. Raised $150M in total funding.
The token sale goes live via sealed-bid Dutch auction with 10% of supply allocated at a $55M FDV floor price ($0.005 increments, no upper limit), allowing up to 10 bids per transaction with FHE-encrypted quantities to prevent frontrunning and gas wars.
Today is the final day of Season 4 and the last chance to win ZAMA OG NFT rewards.
The token lists on an upcoming pre-market.
The team conducts war games on the testnet, randomly inserting errors to test software resiliency, state resiliency, and operational resilience with the goal of identifying edge cases and establishing rapid remediation processes.
A fully unlocked auction is scheduled for January.
Raised $150M Series B at $1B valuation in 2025, first in FHE sector.
Season 4 program remains active with rewards of 53,000 USDC shared among top 100 participants and Zama OG NFTs distributed to top 1000 creators.
The token is now live on Ethereum mainnet with a total supply of 11 billion tokens.
Network operates with 18 operators under DPoS with token holder delegation capability, and implements a burn-and-mint tokenomics model where user fees are burned while operators earn new tokens as rewards.
Token Generation Event (TGE) scheduled for Q4 2025.
Fireblocks joins the network of operators running and securing the protocol.
Participated in OpenZeppelin's Convergence summit on November 21 at EFDevcon Buenos Aires alongside Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Circle, Chainlink, Arbitrum in 4 panels; included in Ethereum privacy ecosystem mapping by web3privacy, reposted by Ethereum Foundation, as a private computation system alongside Arcium and Fhenix.
A partner joins as a Genesis Operator for Zama's private compute infrastructure.
Season 4 goes live featuring $53,000 USDC rewards distributed to Top 100 and OG NFT drops for Top 1000 creators.
Zama collaborates with OnchainCity to unveil the first implementation of FHE in a travel visa workflow at Devconnect Argentina in 10 days.
OrionFinanceAI, backed by Techstars, is building a vault infrastructure for privacy-preserving portfolio management on the protocol and has released a demo.
Omakase Kudasai, a Japan-based Web3 infrastructure provider, joins as a new genesis operator to help secure the private FHE key. Another genesis operator reveal is scheduled for tomorrow.
Conduit joins as the second genesis operator and will serve as an MPC operator to help secure the private FHE key powering the protocol. Additional genesis operator reveals are scheduled for tomorrow.