ZAMA2026-07-29 06:00:20ZAMA nearly doubles in two days as private RFQ launch and buyback-burn model draw focusZAMA climbed from $0.035 to above $0.065 in less than two days, setting a new all-time high and rising nearly 100%, according to Foresight News. The token’s market capitalization reached $188 million and its fully diluted valuation rose to $700 million. The rally has brought renewed attention to Zama’s core pitch: adding practical confidentiality to public blockchains through fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, without requiring users to move assets to a new chain. A major catalyst was the July 23 launch of the test version of Confidential RFQ, an on-chain sealed-bid request-for-quote protocol designed for larger trades. Zama said 100% of trading fees generated by Confidential RFQ will be used to buy back and burn ZAMA, with no front-end fees. The protocol currently supports cUSDT/cUSDC, cZAMA/cUSDC and pairs tied to confidential yield positions, while a public release is scheduled for September. The project has also highlighted operating milestones across the network, including confidential stablecoin transfers, a confidential USDC vault built with Morpho and Steakhouse, compliance wallet screening with Elliptic, and a confidential transfer benchmark of about 1,000 TPS on commodity GPUs. Foresight’s report also pointed to staking growth, shielded TVL in the $40 million to $50 million range, and token unlocks that keep larger allocations locked until Feb. 2, 2027.2000
Zama2026-07-28 16:33:49Zama CEO Says GPU Benchmark Hit 1,000 Confidential Transfers Per Second, With Mainnet Still PendingZama CEO Rand Hindi said the fully homomorphic encryption firm has reached 1,000 confidential transfers per second on GPUs, calling the figure a milestone for privacy tech. The number was shared by Hindi on X and is based on a company-reported benchmark rather than a live production deployment. Zama has not enabled that performance on mainnet, and no public testing methodology accompanied the claim. Hindi said the result marks a jump from 0.2 tps, the level Zama showed when it first demoed an FHE smart contract at ETHcc in 2022. He framed that as a 5,000x improvement over four years. He also said an FHE node now costs about $0.000004 per ERC7984 transaction to run, adding that this is orders of magnitude cheaper than zero-knowledge proofs, though that comparison was presented as his own characterization and was not independently verified in the report. The company plans to activate the performance on mainnet by the end of the year. Hindi linked the target to Zama’s rollout on chains faster than Ethereum, where users expect low latency, high throughput, and near-zero gas fees. Zama also said it aims for 10,000 tps by 2028 and 100,000 tps by 2030, goals that remain dependent on further advances in cryptography, engineering, and hardware.2300
Ethereum2026-07-28 15:55:07Vitalik Buterin outlines Diamond iO, a new attempt to make program obfuscation more practicalEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a new article introducing Diamond iO, a cryptographic obfuscation technique designed to address the extreme inefficiency of traditional indistinguishability obfuscation, or iO. The proposal aims to let encrypted programs run while keeping their internal logic and sensitive data hidden. In Buterin’s description, classic iO offers strong privacy properties but is so expensive to compute that it has been largely impractical. Diamond iO tries to narrow that gap by relying on more aggressive cryptographic assumptions, improving performance from what the article describes as “cosmic-scale time” to “planet-scale time.” The construction is built on tools including attribute-based encryption, or ABE, and fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE. It allows users to execute an encrypted program and receive the correct output without gaining access to the underlying code or embedded secret keys. The article says the design introduces a new input-encoding method and conditional decryption mechanism to reduce computational complexity while preserving hidden program logic. But the work remains at an early research stage. Its security depends on newer assumptions such as All-Product LWE and Evasive LWE, and it still faces major efficiency hurdles including heavy compute costs and circuit-depth limits.2110
Sedona2026-07-17 02:54:56Sedona teams up with Fhenix to bring FHE-based confidential finance to ArbitrumSelf-custodial trading platform Sedona said it has entered a partnership with Fhenix to integrate Fhenix’s confidential fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, infrastructure into Arbitrum. The setup is intended to replace Sedona’s current trusted execution environment security model and keep user balances, positions, and AI agent spending limits encrypted by default. Sedona also said it is in the process of moving from the Seismic ecosystem to Arbitrum, with the Fhenix deployment scheduled after that migration is completed. Unlike trusted execution environments, which rely on hardware trust assumptions, fully homomorphic encryption allows computation to be performed directly on encrypted data. Sedona said this removes the need to trust hardware or operators and gives self-custodial financial privacy a stronger cryptographic foundation. The item was distributed by Chainwire.2040
Zama2026-07-10 20:00:13Zama to Sell 10% of Token Supply Through FHE-Powered Sealed Dutch AuctionFHE-focused project Zama plans to sell 10% of its ZAMA token supply via a sealed Dutch auction from Jan. 12 to 15, with claims opening Jan. 20 and no lock-up for purchased tokens.620
1000x potenti2026-07-08 10:34:13Top Coins With 1000X Potential in the 2026 Bull Run: FHE, KAT, and More Low-Cap RisksThis guide explores low-cap altcoins with theoretical 1000x potential in the 2026 bull run, including FHE, KAT, ALLO, ACU, and EPIC. It warns that less than 1% achieve such gains and treats 1000x bets as experiments, not portfolio foundations.810
Fhenix2026-07-02 22:31:24Fhenix Acquires Sunscreen: FHE Layer 2 Consolidation Accelerates, On-Chain Privacy Computing Enters New PhaseFhenix, a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) Layer 2 project, has announced the acquisition of Sunscreen, an FHE infrastructure company, for an undisclosed amount. Sunscreen co-founder and CEO Ravital Solomon will join Fhenix as Head of Research. The acquisition is expected to significantly strengthen Fhenix's R&D capabilities in on-chain privacy computing, particularly by integrating Sunscreen's advanced compiler technology that lowers the barrier for developers to build encrypted applications. Industry observers view this as a milestone in the consolidation of the privacy computing track, signaling a shift from fragmented exploration to integrated innovation.2230
Fully Homomor2026-07-02 21:31:32FHE Layer 2 Project Fhenix Acquires Sunscreen to Boost On-Chain Privacy ComputingFhenix has completed the acquisition of FHE infrastructure company Sunscreen for an undisclosed amount. Sunscreen founder Ravital Solomon will join Fhenix as Head of Research. The acquisition aims to enhance Fhenix's R&D capabilities in on-chain privacy computing. Sunscreen, an early explorer in FHE for blockchain, has developed advanced compiler technology that lowers the entry barrier for developers. This move is expected to accelerate the practical adoption of fully homomorphic encryption in blockchain applications.2180
