ZKP says it committed $100 million of its own capital before opening its public token presale, framing the sale as a distribution of ownership in a network that is already built and running rather than funding for an unfinished concept. The claims were laid out in the project’s latest promotional material.
Project outlines how the $100 million was spent
According to ZKP, the capital covered $20 million in core blockchain infrastructure, $17 million for Proof Pods validator hardware, and $5 million to secure the domain. The project says its blockchain is live, the hardware has already been manufactured, and the broader ecosystem is operational. It also describes Proof Pods as physical validator devices that can be shipped worldwide within five days.
Presale is split into 25 fixed stages
ZKP says the presale is structured across 25 deterministic stages, with each stage carrying a fixed allocation and a fixed token price. Once a stage closes, that price does not return, according to the project. The first stage opened at $0.0004 per token, while the launch price is set at $0.04. Based on those figures, the gap amounts to 100x, or 9,900%. The material also says total proceeds are expected to exceed $7 billion, which it says would make ZKP the largest crypto presale on record if achieved.
Privacy-focused blockchain aimed at AI workloads
On the technology side, ZKP presents itself as a privacy-first blockchain built for the AI era. The project says its zero-knowledge proof layer can verify computation without exposing the underlying data, including use cases such as proving AI models trained correctly without revealing datasets and confirming transactions without identifying participants. Its consensus design combines Proof of Intelligence, which rewards nodes for AI computation, with Proof of Space, which rewards nodes for verifiable decentralized storage. ZKP describes the Proof Pods hardware as the physical layer supporting that network design.
At the time of writing, the publicly available details come from project marketing material. The figures related to capital deployment, shipping timelines, price structure and fundraising expectations are all claims made by ZKP.