CBO @zama | Ex - Strategic Partnerships @Optimism, Head of Eco @rootstock_io | in my privacy arc ~ opinions are my own
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Shielded is something I look forward to every single quarter.
Seeing the teams hard work all summed up with results and our partners lining up to celebrate - truly humbling. Excited for what we are building, inspired by our partners and stoked for whats coming next🔥
Kudos to @analog_kyle for bringing it all together! Nov 2nd, block your calendars
Shielded | Q3 2026 drops next week.
Shielded is Zama’s quarterly institutional report on the Zama Protocol and the ecosystem growing around it.
We’re breaking down everything that happened in Q3 with @therollupco and some special guests. The full episode and the report will be available next Monday.
Hosted by @andyyy and @robbieklages , featuring:
- @randhindi , Co-Founder & CEO at @zama
- @analog_kyle , VP of Investor & Protocol Relations at @zama
- @Yannimoto , Head of Onchain Special Projects at @Bitwise
- @gbvpzffd2r , Co-Founder & CTO at @HypernativeLabs
- @evgeth , Founder & CEO at @zerion
- @bentzzi , Co-Founder & CEO at @utila_io
On the agenda: Q3 highlights and protocol growth, confidential vaults bringing institutional capital onchain, confidential tokens coming to more custodians and wallets, the launch of confidential swaps, and advancements in protocol compliance and security.
🗓 Monday, November 2nd
🕐 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET
Do yall remember phone books? A free book with everyones name, number and home address. Now I need two-factor auth to check my gym membership.
If you dont follow State Change - you should.
New episode out now on YouTube: Peptides, AI Doctors and the End of the Annual Physical.
@maxmarchione founder of @superpower , joins @analog_kyle to talk about moving medicine from treating sickness to preventing it, through comprehensive diagnostics and AI-driven care.
They discuss who will build the “Apple of healthcare”, which AI lab is best placed to win in health, and what medicine looks like in 5 years.
Full episode, link in bio.
Sometimes I miss the kumbaya of CT in 2024, where we were all holding hands and vying for vitaliks approval
Funny thing here - ANYONE can connect claude and ask about YOUR wallet balances, transactions, token transfers
ENCRYPT THE MONEY
🆕 Claude Connector
Connect Etherscan to @claudeai and ask about wallet balances, transactions, token transfers, and verified contracts across supported chains
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Member Spotlight 🌟
Meet Irene Patrikios 👋
Huge congrats to Introduction member @crypto_irene on her promotion to Chief Business Officer at @zama, after serving as VP of BD & Partnerships.
→ Previously VP of BD & Partnerships at Zama
→ Former Director, Strategic Partnerships at @Optimism
→ Former Head of Ecosystem Success at RootstockLabs
Almost twelve years in crypto.
Every cycle, every boom, every rebuild of trust after.
At Optimism she drove Tier-1 partnerships with Uniswap, Kraken, Sony and Worldcoin.
She joined Zama right before mainnet on a simple bet: confidentiality is the infrastructure that brings institutions onchain.
When a member wins, we all win. Congrats Irene 👇
Very excited to be a part of this effort and build standards for institutional onchain finance alongside the teams actually doing the work.
Zama brings compliance onchain through confidential tokens - selective disclosure at the protocol level, without giving up composability or verifiability, ensuring to preserve the value of what public chains enable.
Any regulated business operating onchain needs Zama and standards is how we get blockchains to go from an RnD project to financial infra.
Congratulations to the team and excited to contribute!
Zama joins the Open Transaction Layer (OTL) as a founding partner.
OTL is an industry initiative building reference protocols for identity, messaging, and transaction coordination across institutions, unhosted wallets, and agents.
Zama brings confidentiality to onchain transactions through FHE, keeping amounts and balances encrypted on public blockchains with full verifiability and programmable compliance.
As a founding partner, Zama will help shape open standards for secure, compliant, and confidential onchain finance.
Learn more: otl.network
Bullish Zama
A confidentiality milestone for onchain credit
$100M+ is now earning yield from Morpho Vaults via @zama, with positions and earnings kept in confidence.
I’m very excited and honored, to announce that I’ve been named Chief Business Officer at @zama .
I’ve spent almost twelve years in crypto. I’ve watched it go from a fringe experiment to something institutions can no longer ignore, through every cycle, every boom, every collapse, every slow rebuild of trust after. One gap never closed through any of it - blockchains ask every institution, every business, every person to run their finances in the open. That was never going to be what brings real money onchain at scale.
I joined Zama in November 2025, right before mainnet, because I believe confidentiality is the infrastructure that finally makes that possible - Zama makes it possible. It’s the bridge that lets the institutions holding the world’s capital actually move onchain.
This past year our business team signed partnerships across major players, launched confidential DeFi, and built a pipeline that holds up against anything else in this space. That work has been a game-changer putting Zama at the forefront, showcasing what confidentiality can bring to the table and what the new internet of tomorrow could look like at scale.
@randhindi and the board are putting real weight behind where this team can take Zama next. I feel that responsibility.
Thank you to Rand, to the board and to every person at Zama who makes this real every day.
Now, let's go win!
Killer talent on the loose if you are looking for someone to join your team and make waves!
Chapter closed at @BNBCHAIN 🟡
As BD Lead of RWAs and Payments, I:
>Secured $100M+ in liquidity
>Supported 20+ ecosystem teams
>Integrated 10+ stablecoin neobanks
>Drove $60M+ in crossborder payments
>Helped BNB grow in the Americas
As for what’s next, I’m excited to help a new team close deals in payments and RWAs.
Free agency starts now, lets talk
Token was great - but one thing that really stood out to me is how much I have deporiotized my health. Huge wake up call and that is ending today.
Day 1 to getting healthy again. I will be ramping it up slowly to build those muscles again!
- 6K steps to start
- 3 days a week of strength training
- 120g Protein a day
- 20% caloric reduction
Lets do this!
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A few people yesterday asked how AI could impact FHE / @zama, so here is a quick tldr:
1. There is no evidence that lattices / FHE can be broken by AI, SI or quantum. If anything, there is a growing consensus that fully breaking lattices might imply P = NP.
2. However, it's almost certain that better attacks will be discovered, which would require increasing parameter size and taking a short-term hit on performance. The Zama protocol is modular, so we can increase parameters size or swap out any component quickly, without changing the UX or rotating user keys.
3. Zama uses FHE only for privacy, so breaking FHE would not allow stealing funds that are shielded, it would only allow seeing balances and amounts. This is unlike ZK, where breaking the cryptography means you can steal funds and mint infinite tokens.
4. We do a lot of work on cryptanalysis and improving the security of FHE. We spend millions a year on audits (AI and human), research grants, bounties, have 30 PhDs in the team, etc. We have a plan A (the current thing we do), but also a plan B and a plan C if things go wrong. Whatever the future throws at us, we will have a way to adapt to offer the same service.
5. Hashes have been broken in the past, many times (MD5, SHA1, etc), so saying they are more secure than lattices, which have been extensively studied for decades is a stretch to say the least. Not saying its impossible, but history is on the side of lattices here.
Lets also remember that if indeed lattices and elliptic curves are broken and there is no public-key encryption anymore, then hiding your balances onchain is the least of your worries, because the world as we know it would be over: no private communications, no online banking, your AI prompts would be public, etc.
If you missed my Keynote today, you can catch it below.
Tldr - the missing layer in the vault stack is here and together with that, Zama is building the tools and ecosystem to bring trillions on chain 🔥
ENCRYPT THE MONEY
Irene Patrikios (@crypto_irene) of @zama on confidentiality as the missing layer in the vault stack. In her model, the allocator’s position is private, the curator’s strategy stays public, and auditors or regulators can be given access. Listen to her keynote here.
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Great perspective from @crypto_irene's presentation at @Vault__Summit today.
The vault stack keeps evolving:
Vault 1.0: One contract, one strategy.
Vault 2.0: Modular infrastructure, curators, and distribution.
Vault 3.0: Confidentiality.
What's interesting about Vault 3.0 is that it doesn't require rebuilding the existing stack.
Vaults keep their infrastructure. Curators keep running their strategies. Frontends keep their users.
The new layer built by @zama allows allocators to hold confidential vault shares, with encrypted balances that remain verifiable, composable, and compliance-ready.
The question is no longer why we should, but WHY NOT? Why not move to a confidential vault stack?
It's live, trusted by users, and scaling fast.
Everyone keeps talking about the trillions coming onchain - that capital won't arrive while every position, entry and exit is public.
The vault stack has a new layer. Tomorrow I'll walk everyone through what we've built at @zama and why we got to $100M+ shielded so far in just 2 weeks after launch 🔥
New era of Yield is here!
Irene Patrikios (@crypto_irene), SVP BD and Partnerships at @zama, will take the stage at Vault Summit Singapore with the keynote: "Confidential Yield: Unlocking Institutional Onchain Finance".
Full agenda: vaultsummit.xyz/agenda
