Paris, France, April 29th, 2026 - Dfns, a wallet infrastructure provider focused on institutional finance, and Zama, a company developing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) protocols, have announced a strategic partnership to add native confidentiality features to public blockchain activity.
The integration layers Zama’s FHE-powered protocol into the Dfns wallet stack, enabling enterprise users to manage confidential assets out-of-the-box. Initial support targets Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, and the work is being deployed through the ERC-7984 confidential token standard.
For institutions that have been reluctant to shift significant capital onto public ledgers because of privacy and compliance concerns, the companies position this work as an infrastructure-level solution intended to reconcile those constraints. The firms say the integration will let financial firms preserve confidentiality while maintaining the controls regulators expect.
Rand Hindi, co-founder and CEO at Zama, framed the partnership as a milestone for the confidential layer of blockchain technology. “This is a landmark step in Zama’s broader vision to build the confidential layer for the blockchain, where confidentiality is the default state for every transaction,” he said. “By bringing FHE to the core of Dfns’ financial infrastructure, we are moving from a ’magical math’ problem to a procurement and risk solution. We are enabling a future where the world’s most sensitive capital can finally migrate to public blockchains without compromising confidentiality, compliance, or control.”
What the integration delivers
Dfns says the combined stack will offer institutional-grade confidentiality features for trading, payments, and regulated workflows. Key capabilities highlighted include:
- Encrypted Settlement - Trading desks will be able to settle transactions on public ledgers in real time while keeping order sizes and positions hidden from the broader market.
- Confidential Payments - Payment providers can process institutional B2B flows and cross-border settlements while keeping commercial volumes and counterparty relationships private.
- Regulated Data Control - Built-in "Selective Disclosure" enables institutions to provide controlled access to auditors or regulators, mirroring traditional banking privacy models within a decentralized environment.
Clarisse Hagege, CEO at Dfns, emphasized that the addition of confidentiality is designed to coexist with regulatory obligations. “For our clients, adding confidentiality to transactions does not mean removing compliance,” she said. “Zama Protocol brings a regulatorily-legible model to our enterprise stack. Together, we are eliminating the trade-off between the transparency of public blockchains and the privacy required by regulated finance. This is programmable, confidential infrastructure purpose-built for the next generation of global capital.”
Client reach and platform context
Dfns describes itself as a core banking platform for digital assets. Since 2020, the company says it has supported fintechs and financial institutions with onchain operations and application development. Its programmable wallet platform consolidates transaction lifecycle, internal workflow, policies and governance, key management, and third-party service orchestration into a single control plane intended to serve custody, payments, trading, tokenization, and banking use cases.
Dfns reports more than 400 enterprise clients across banking, fintech, and real-world asset (RWA) markets. The firm lists a cross-section of clients that includes Standard Chartered Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, IBM, Broadridge, Apex Group, Stripe, Kraken, Circle, and Susquehanna among others.
About Zama
Zama is presented as a cryptography company focused on Fully Homomorphic Encryption solutions for blockchain. According to the company material, Zama’s protocol enables confidentiality on public blockchains and permits the issuance, management, and private trading of digital assets onchain. The company was founded by Dr. Pascal Paillier and Dr. Rand Hindi and is described as assembling a large team of FHE researchers and engineers to support a global ecosystem of developers building confidential applications.
Contacts
Media contacts listed by the companies include:
- Zama: Julia André, PR & Communications Director, [email protected]
- Dfns: Marc Baumann, Chief Marketing Officer, [email protected]
Additional contact text in the distributed material lists:
ContactPR & communications DirectorJulia Zama [email protected]
The partnership presents a technology path intended to bring confidentiality primitives into mainstream institutional onchain workflows while retaining explicit mechanisms for auditor and regulator access. The effort is described by the two firms as moving institutional adoption from a theoretical cryptographic challenge toward procurement and risk-engineering decisions by enterprises and their compliance teams.
Companies and practitioners evaluating the offering will be able to assess the implementation through the ERC-7984 standard on Ethereum and compatible chains, and through the enterprise controls Dfns layers around transaction lifecycle and governance.
Promotional material accompanying the announcement also includes an investment-themed product message unrelated to the technical integration, describing a separate institutional data and insights service intended to support investment decision-making in 2026.