Infrastructure

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zCloak Network provides Zero-Knowledge Proof as a Service for the Polkadot Network.

Enhanced efficiency and security for general-purpose computations. Zero-Knowledge Proof as a Service for parachains in Polkadot/Kusama Network. Prove things about your data without sending them to 3rd parties anymore.

Sanctor Capital

Jsquare

Advanced Blockchain

Digital Renaissance

Matrixport

Hash Global

PAKA

Digital Finance Group

Jump Capital

IOSG Ventures

Bixin Ventures

Coinbase Ventures

Hypersphere

KuCoin

zCloak Network

The Internet today is vulnerable to the profit-driven surveillance of users by corporations. Yet privacy-enhancing technologies can enable everyone to communicate privately and securely without being spied upon, even by nation-states which can observe the entire Internet. 

The purpose of Nym is to develop the infrastructure necessary to give the oppressed the freedom to communicate and organise without giving up on privacy. Nym is building a decentralized authentication and payment protocol which will enable developers to build their own sustainable privacy-enhanced services without relying on the surveillance of users. 

Nym is partnering with the stealth startup Kryptik to release a mixnet which has superior privacy properties to Tor against global passive adversaries. This mixnet is the culmination of years of academic research into surveillance proof networking by the PANORAMIX project. 

Nym can also enable services such as decentralized secure messaging and private cryptocurrency transactions, without leaking metadata such as who is communicating with who… and when. 

Let the present order tremble at a cryptographic revolution. The users have nothing to lose but their chains. We have a world to win.

Oasis Protocol, Open Money, Open Finance, and now Open Data. With the Oasis Network we can build a better internet — one that protects the data rights of individual users, while enabling fundamentally new use-cases and applications.

The Internet is an amazing platform for innovation, creativity, and free expression.  And yet, its empowering design elements, like the end-to-end principle and global interoperability, have yet to be unleashed in truly transformative ways.  

We believe in building new technology that can give us a better Internet experience. One that transforms “users” into edge clients, and enables them to take back control of their data, and their digital experiences.  One that fully respects individual privacy and autonomy, while still supporting amazing apps and services.

To get there, we’re fostering the development and growth of a privacy-first, decentralized computational network. A network that will grow and evolve with the inclusive community of developers, thinkers, and leaders who maintain it.

The Oasis Protocol Foundation looks to support projects focused on making that privacy-first Internet a reality. From building privacy-preserving applications, to developing more powerful tools for the network, to improving how it operates.

Oasis Network

Lelantus is a new privacy payment protocol that ensures confidential and anonymous blockchain transactions with small transaction sizes, short verification times and without requiring a trusted setup. Based on the modified construction of one-out-of-many proofs, Lelantus enables direct anonymous payments where users can pay each other by hiding their transaction origins and amounts. It efficiently supports large anonymity sets of size hundred thousand and beyond by providing logarithmic proof sizes and fast batch verification of transaction proofs. Lelantus can be integrated also with other major blockchain privacy solutions MimbleWimble and Confidential Transactions, resulting in hybrid designs that ensure transaction anonymity.

Lelantus

Anoma is a sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain that enables private, asset-agnostic bartering among any number of parties.

The Anoma blockchain protocol aims to facilitate “Self-Sovereign Communities” by providing tools that grant increased control to individuals and communities’ of the systems governing their day-to-day aspects and activities, such as financial privacy, sovereignty, and coordination.

As the first instances of the Anoma protocol focus on granting privacy-preserving financial tools, the Anoma blockchain protocol places special emphasis on supporting any kind of asset and on zero-knowledge privacy regardless of the denomination of the assets.

The purpose of undefining money refers to the removal of any artificial constraints around what can be used as money or means of exchange, providing higher flexibility and control to the users of the protocol in deciding what to use — be it assets created by others or assets they created themselves. Anoma’s focus on financial self-sovereignty is also illustrated by the N-party barter system, which facilitates asset-agnostic private cash in the simplest cases, but can assist in exchange, trades, and other financial activities of entire communities.

Finally, in alignment with the vision, the design of the Anoma blockchain protocol scales via fractal scaling. Simply put, each Anoma blockchain instance is designed to integrate seamlessly with other instances, which can be specialized geographically (e.g. when Alice pays for coffee in Shanghai, this transaction is settled by the Chinese instance of Anoma) or are tailored to satisfy the needs and purposes of any real-world or virtual community (e.g. an Anoma instance that allows Animal Crossing players to trade furniture).

Anoma

Quark is a crypto currency for online transactions.

Quark

Firo (formerly known as Zcoin) is a privacy-first digital currency that enables untraceable transactions and true financial freedom from the prying eyes of large corporations, financial institutions, and oppressive governments. Firo advocates privacy as a fundamental human right, and enables users to regain control of their money.

Firo

Burner Machine, Anonymous Burner Desktops. Burner Machine protects your privacy by allowing you to create disposable virtual desktops in the cloud. You can use a Burner Machine just like any computer, but all of your interactions are completely anonymous.

Launch a burner desktop anywhere in the world and access from your web browser. An Ocelot Original Production.

Protect your privacy with a disposable virtual desktop created just for you in the cloud. Your Burner Machine automatically self-terminates after three hours.

Surf the internet using Chromium or Firefox. Access Onion services and blocked sites using Tor. Use cryptocurrencies with installed Electrum, Wasabi, MyMonero, MetaMask, and MyCrypto wallets. Securely message friends and colleagues using desktop apps like Signal or Telegram.

Burner Machine

Dimension offers a series of products in advocatory for social liberty in the ever-realistic era of cyberspace, among which the most fundamental ones are Right of Cryptography and Freedom of Interpretation.

Dimension

HOPR provides the tools and framework for the Web3 ecosystem, ensuring everyone has control of their privacy, data, and identity as they navigate online. The HOPR protocol introduces the first-ever open incentivized mixnet, where anyone can earn tokens for staking and running nodes. Dr. Sebastian Bürgel, who helped draft the DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) Law in Switzerland, leads a diverse HOPR team which includes award-winning blockchain hackers and Silicon Valley tech veterans.

HOPR combines the association as a proven legal entity in Swiss jurisdiction with the tenets of a Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) which results in a Decentralized Community-Enabling Governance (decenGov). The services and next generation technology of HOPR are made possible by a grant through the non-profit HOPR Association. HOPR has its main office in Zurich, Switzerland.