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Zama

Cryptography company specializing in homomorphic encryption for blockchain applications, developer of the fhEVM protocol

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Our Take

Homomorphic encryption is cryptography's unhinged dream — you run calculations on data without ever decrypting it, which sounds like magic and took decades to make practical. Zama built fhEVM to bring that magic to Ethereum, enabling fully confidential on-chain transactions without giving up network transparency. For DeFi protocols and enterprises needing privacy on public blockchains, this is the piece everyone's been waiting for — and honestly, the fact that they're further along than any crypto team I know of makes them a serious outlier worth watching.

Cryptography company specializing in homomorphic encryption for blockchain applications, developer of the fhEVM protocol enabling confidential on-chain transactions.

Founded

unconfirmed

Location

global (remote-first)

Funding

raised (investors: Multicoin Capital, Protocol Labs, MetaPlaneta, etc.)

Team Size

96 people, 37 PhDs, 26 nationalities

Product Type

cryptography FHE open source

Github

https://github.com/zama-ai

Twitter Url

https://x.com/zama

Description

Open source cryptography company building FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption) solutions for blockchain. FHEVM framework.

Url

https://www.zama.org/about

Research Notes

Established cryptography company — open source FHE tooling

Key Facts

The people behind Zama

Pascal Paillier

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Co-Founder & CTO

Cryptographer. Co-founded Zama with Rand Hindi. Creator of a widely used homomorphic encryption scheme. Research background in cryptography.

Rand Hindi

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CEO & Co-Founder

Deep tech entrepreneur and investor. CEO at Zama, the leading blockchain confidentiality protocol using homomorphic encryption. Previously CEO at Snips.ai (acquired). PhD in computer science. GP at Unit.vc.