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When @zama started in 2020, it wasn’t just another crypto startup, it was a small team chasing what many thought was impossible: privacy without compromise.
While the world was obsessed with scalability and hype cycles, Zama quietly focused on something deeper — Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a technology that lets anyone compute on encrypted data without ever revealing what’s inside.
They started by releasing open-source tools like Concrete and TFHE-rs, giving developers the power to experiment with real FHE for the first time. Then came the big leap — fhEVM, a privacy-preserving Ethereum-compatible environment where smart contracts stay encrypted end to end.
Their impact didn’t go unnoticed. After raising $57M in a Series B co-led by Pantera Capital and Blockchange Ventures, Zama became one of Web3’s rare unicorns — not because of hype, but because of real tech and real adoption.