Pierre Gardrat

JUST IN Zama acquires TokenOps to roll out confidential & fully compliant token distributions, airdrops, and vesting. Public blockchains just became viable for institutional capital.

ERC-7984 is basically a confidential ERC-20. Instead of your balance being readable by anyone onchain, it stays encrypted, along with transfers and transaction details, private by default. Joint work by @Zama and @OpenZeppelin ⬇️ zama.org/post/erc-7984-…

$ZAMA is going live. Years in the making. Today is another foundational step toward Zama becoming the HTTPS layer for blockchain.

The bidding phase of the Zama Public Auction is now complete. Total Value Shielded (TVS) has surpassed $121M, marking an important milestone for Zama, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and blockchain privacy. The auction contract has entered the settlement phase, and bids from the @kucoincom and @CoinList sales are being included in the Public Auction contract. Bidders will be able to view their final allocation at auction.zama.org in the coming days. Claim opens on February 2. Thank you to everyone who believes in what we’re building at Zama 💛

$110M Total Value Shielded (TVS) in the Zama Public Auction. Less than one hour left to bid. 👉 auction.zama.org

Wrapping up 2025 with the 2nd edition of The State of FHE report. This one focuses on hardware acceleration 🧵⬇️

We are launching zashapon.com. A first attempt at building a digital theme park for the @zama Protocol. Our thesis is simple: to accelerate the adoption of FHE, we need cool apps designed for real people. Users don't adopt protocols, they adopt experiences. In most ecosystems, there are very few places that turn participation into status and fun. Usage is transactional, not emotional. Adoption stalls. @zashapon is always open, accessible, social by default, and adding infinite attractions over time. It's a playful layer that makes the ecosystem feel like… an ecosystem. The mechanics are simple: - You make FHE transactions by using confidential apps - You get tickets - You can spend them in Zashapon Participation → access → rewards. Zashapon is creating a flywheel: More FHEVM usage → more tickets → more play → more rewards → more users → more builders → more FHEVM usage. Why “gashapon” machines? Because "chance + collection + ritual" is one of the oldest, most reliable engagement loops in games and theme parks. It creates stories users want to repeat. Zashapon uses FHERand to make sure all draws are programmatically fair and confidential. Fun without trust tradeoffs. What you get today: NFTs. What you get tomorrow: anything that can be digitally rewarded — access, perks, whitelists, lore items, partner drops, even real-world benefits. Zashapon is the entertainment / loyalty / identity layer for confidential applications building on top of the Zama Protocol. In physical theme parks: you ride → you collect → you show → you come back with friends. In Zashapon: you use confidential apps → you earn tickets → you draw → you flex / trade / build → you return. We're launching with one Gashapon machine, rewarding the users of confidentialtoken.com Soon there will be many more — one for every new app, partner, and experience built on the Zama Protocol. Digital parks win by expanding attractions continuously. Zashapon is live on Zama testnet right now. Go try it now!

“Privacy is part of freedom. If you don’t have privacy, you don’t really have freedom.” – Charles Guillemet, CTO @ Ledger The latest Ledger Podcast just dropped with @randhindi and @analog_kyle from @zama & Ledger CTO, @P3b7_ on hardware security, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and onchain confidentiality.

Announcing the Zama Public Auction. We’re selling 10% of the $ZAMA supply via a sealed-bid Dutch auction on Ethereum, using the Zama Protocol itself to keep bids confidential with FHE. Why this matters: ◼️ Fair distribution & real price discovery ◼️ No bot sniping or gas wars ◼️ Tokens are unlocked immediately 🗓️ Auction: Jan 12–15 🗓️ Claim: Jan 20 $ZAMA is the utility token of the Zama Protocol, a confidentiality layer for existing L1s/L2s: ◼️ Pay encryption & decryption fees ◼️ Stake or delegate to operators ◼️ Help secure FHE coprocessors & KMS nodes Mainnet is expected to launch by year-end, with $ZAMA fully functional before the auction. Get notified at launch: auction.zama.org

A renewed privacy push is reshaping Web3 and @zama sits at the centre with encrypted execution built on FHE. At DevConnect we caught up with COO @JeremyDona22369 to discuss the Zama roadmap and how private-by-default tooling is becoming practical. dlnews.com/research/inter…

🔥 Big News! One official @zama OG NFT is up for grabs for the #1 champion of this new season. 🚀 PHASE 2 of @playascend_xyz is now open — only 1,000 spots available! Beat the bot. Beat your friends. Become the next @zama OG NFT holder (might come in handy 😉). ⏳ Seats are limited. First come, first served: playascend.xyz

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JUST IN: We’re proud to announce our next genesis operator: Omakase Kudasai. @kudasai_japan (@omakasekudasaijp) is a leading crypto community in Japan 🇯🇵, dedicated to promoting blockchain technology and Web3 adoption. Omakase Kudasai operates as a Web3 infrastructure provider and runs validators across multiple networks. As a Zama MPC operator, Omakase Kudasai will help secure the private FHE key that powers the Zama Protocol, ensuring confidentiality without compromising verifiability. Learn more about the Zama Protocol and its operators in our litepaper: #operations-and-governance" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.zama.ai/protocol/zama-… 🔔Tomorrow, we reveal another genesis operator.

@Draftmode_Off @zama @EFDevcon Sadly no, I will be debugging our FPGA platform in Paris. But there will be surely great people from Zama.

@zama @EFDevcon Will intern be there? 🐱

Who else is heading to @EFDevcon in November?

@ZainabMukh66376 @zama For now we call it the FROG as in Fhe Reconfigurable Operation Grid. It is going to be the next leap of performance on FHE.

@zama What's that called?

A thread on the Homomorphic Processing Unit, the first-ever open-source hardware accelerator for FHE. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) promises computation on encrypted data without ever decrypting it, but performance has always been the bottleneck. 1/n 🧵