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Zama - Privacy as Infrastructure: Why BlackRock and Nomura Are Eyeing Zama (Confidential Transactions on Ethereum)
Back in March, GSR - one of the oldest market makers around - ran the first confidential OTC trade on Ethereum. The order size stayed encrypted end to end: market makers bid blind, never seeing each other's positions. The order was oversubscribed by more than 200%, and nothing leaked.
Zama takes a different route. It's not a new blockchain but a confidentiality layer on top of Ethereum: FHE lets smart contracts compute directly on encrypted data without ever revealing it.
🟢 How the trade gets encrypted
Bids are encrypted via FHE, the contract picks the best price without exposing the rest. Only the winner sees the size, and only after settlement. It runs on the ERC-7984 standard, built with OpenZeppelin; the closed beta on Ethereum is already live.
🟢 Who's already building on it
KAIO - an RWA protocol from Nomura's Laser Digital - distributes tokens via ERC-7984. Its partners include BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, Brevan Howard: encryption was the only way for their funds to touch a public chain without exposing private data. Behind Zama sits $130M+ from Multicoin, Pantera, Protocol Labs at a $1B+ valuation - the first unicorn in FHE.
Privacy in DeFi was an academic topic for years. When the signatures under the trades read Nomura and BlackRock, it's a different conversation.
✨ Right now, this is an early stage, throughput is small, the GSR trade was more proof-of-concept than volume. But while the market is risk-off and dumping, these folks are quietly cutting against the grain and building what was missing.
It’s worth taking a closer look both at the token’s price and at who’s already planning to take advantage of it.
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Zama - Privacy as Infrastructure: Why BlackRock and Nomura Are Eyeing Zama (Confidential Transactions on Ethereum)
Back in March, GSR - one of the oldest market makers around - ran the first confidential OTC trade on Ethereum. The order size stayed encrypted end to end: market makers bid blind, never seeing each other's positions. The order was oversubscribed by more than 200%, and nothing leaked.
Normally a big crypto trade is an open book - size and counterparty visible to anyone watching the mempool, with front-running baked into the architecture.
Zama takes a different route. It's not a new blockchain but a confidentiality layer on top of Ethereum: FHE lets smart contracts compute directly on encrypted data without ever revealing it.
🟢 How the trade gets encrypted
Bids are encrypted via FHE, the contract picks the best price without exposing the rest. Only the winner sees the size, and only after settlement. It runs on the ERC-7984 standard, built with OpenZeppelin; the closed beta on Ethereum is already live.
🟢 Who's already building on it
KAIO - an RWA protocol from Nomura's Laser Digital - distributes tokens via ERC-7984. Its partners include BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, Brevan Howard: encryption was the only way for their funds to touch a public chain without exposing private data. Behind Zama sits $130M+ from Multicoin, Pantera, Protocol Labs at a $1B+ valuation - the first unicorn in FHE.
Privacy in DeFi was an academic topic for years. When the signatures under the trades read Nomura and BlackRock, it's a different conversation.
✨ Right now, this is an early stage, throughput is small, the GSR trade was more proof-of-concept than volume. But while the market is risk-off and dumping, these folks are quietly cutting against the grain and building what was missing.
It’s worth taking a closer look both at the token’s price and at who’s already planning to take advantage of it.
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