Zama Expands Blockchain Confidentiality with KKRT Labs
Paris, France, November 5th, 2025, Chainwire
Zama and KKRT Labs Partner to Scale Confidential Blockchain
Zama is a cryptography company. It works on blockchain privacy. Zama builds the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol.
Today, Zama announced that it has acquired KKRT Labs. KKRT Labs is also known as Kakarot. It is a research and development company. It focuses on scaling blockchains. It uses Zero-Knowledge Proofs to do this.
This acquisition is an important step. It helps Zama grow its technical strength. It improves how blockchains can scale. It also improves how blockchains can stay private.
With KKRT Labs joining Zama, the company can move faster. It can bring high-performance confidentiality to public blockchains. This includes many popular chains used today.
Unlocking the Next Phase of Scalable Onchain Confidentiality
KKRT Labs brings strong experience to Zama. The team designs fast proving systems. They also build modular rollup systems. These systems work in Ethereum-equivalent environments.
KKRT Labs has strong backing. Its investors include Vitalik Buterin, StarkWare, Lambda Class, and Stake Capital.
Kakarot is known as a top ZK-rollup team. It focuses on making blockchains faster and more efficient. Its goal is to build the best proving engine for Ethereum-compatible chains.
By working together, Zama and KKRT Labs can scale faster. They aim to support more than 10,000 confidential transactions per second. This will work on public chains like Ethereum and Solana.
This higher speed will unlock new uses. These include confidential stablecoin payments. They also include confidential DeFi. Confidential on-chain asset management will also become possible.
Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama, shared his thoughts.
“KKRT Labs has one of the best ZK-rollup teams,” he said. “Together, we can scale faster.”
He added that the Zama Protocol will reach tens of thousands of transactions per second. This will help privacy grow across blockchains.
Integration, Growth, and Future Roadmap
Zama and KKRT Labs share the same values. Both believe in open-source work. Both focus on confidentiality first. Both want more people to access advanced cryptography.
The teams believe that scalability and confidentiality work together. They are not opposites. They are both needed for future decentralized systems.
Vitalik Buterin also shared his view. He is an investor in KKRT Labs.
He said Kakarot helped improve cryptographic tools in Ethereum. This includes early work on ZK-EVMs. It also includes privacy tools. He said he looks forward to the team’s next work.
Zama plans a smooth integration. The goal is no disruption.
Team retention & leadership: KKRT engineers and leaders will fully join Zama.
Roadmap alignment: KKRT projects will fit into Zama’s plans.
Eli Ben Sasson also commented. He is the CEO of StarkWare and co-founder of ZCash.
He said the Kakarot team has deep knowledge. He praised their success. He said their work shows how to scale blockchains with cryptography. He believes they will strongly support Zama’s roadmap.
Clément Walter, co-founder of KKRT Labs, also shared his view.
He said joining Zama helps solve a major blockchain challenge. That challenge is confidentiality.
He added that scalability and confidentiality are both important. He believes this partnership will make fast and private on-chain finance real.
About Zama
Zama is a cryptography company. It builds advanced FHE solutions for blockchain.
Its main product is the Zama Protocol. This protocol adds confidentiality to blockchains. It works with chains like Ethereum and Solana. It supports private payments and DeFi.
Zama was founded by Dr. Pascal Paillier and Dr. Rand Hindi. The company has a large FHE research team. It raised $150 million at a $1.2 billion valuation.
More information is available at https://zama.org/.
About KKRT Labs
KKRT Labs was a zero-knowledge research company. It focused on building proving engines. These engines worked with Ethereum-equivalent systems.
The team was made up of cryptography experts. Their goal was simple. They wanted computing to be verifiable. They wanted it to be fast. They wanted it to be easy to use.
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