Zama Partners with Hypernative to Extend Compliance by Design with Continuous Onchain Monitoring

Confidential finance needs more than encryption. It needs operational controls institutions can trust.

Last month, Zama announced the partnership with Elliptic to bring wallet-level risk screening for the Zama app and future confidential financial products.

Today, Zama is partnering with Hypernative to extend its compliance-by-design architecture with continuous onchain monitoring.

Zama deployed Hypernative’s Onchain Monitoring & Automated Response platform across the Zama confidential wrappers, host contract deployments and DeFi protocols. This integration adds real-time monitoring and business logic specific alerting to the Zama Protocol, giving operators continuous visibility into protocol activity while preserving the confidentiality of assets and transactions.

As part of the partnership, Hypernative’s Transaction Guard will also integrate confidential token support, enabling transaction simulation before execution for Zama and future integration partners.

Compliance is foundational to making confidential finance the default for institutional activity on public blockchains. This partnership strengthens that foundation by extending the Zama Protocol’s Compliance by Design architecture with new operational capabilities.

Building the compliance foundation for confidential onchain finance

Institutions require more than confidentiality. They require operational controls that align with existing governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks.

That is the principle behind the Zama Protocol’s Compliance by Design approach.

Rather than relying on a single control, the protocol combines complementary capabilities that address different operational requirements across the lifecycle of confidential assets.

At the protocol level, the Access Control List (ACL) allows for selective disclosure for confidential assets to authorized parties while preserving confidentiality on public chains.
Before funds enter the protocol, Elliptic performs wallet-level KYT and sanctions screening.
After deployment, Hypernative provides continuous monitoring, giving operators real-time visibility into protocol activity as assets move through the system.

Together, these capabilities enable institutions to issue, trade, and manage confidential assets on public blockchains with both confidentiality and compliance.

Hypernative marks another milestone in Zama’s compliance roadmap. Together with our partners, we’re taking a proactive approach to defining the standard framework for compliant confidential finance on public blockchains.

Why Hypernative

Hypernative monitors over $100B in digital assets across more than 75 chains for 350+ organizations, including Circle, Chainlink, Ethena, Galaxy, and Morpho.

Beyond its scale, Hypernative is also deeply integrated across the institutional DeFi ecosystem where confidential finance is emerging. Its existing deployments with Morpho and Steakhouse, the exact infrastructure behind Steakhouse Confidential USDC Prime Vault. That ecosystem overlap made Hypernative a natural fit for the Zama Protocol, reducing integration complexity while enabling us to work with a partner that already understands the operational requirements of institutional liquidity providers.

"Compliance doesn't stop at screening. Institutions need continuous operational visibility throughout the lifecycle of confidential assets, not just a check at the door. Hypernative lets us define alerts around our own contracts and business logic. They're also already embedded in the ecosystem our liquidity providers operate in. With this partnership, we're extending the Zama Protocol's compliance-by-design architecture, giving liquidity providers and integration partners greater confidence to operate confidential financial infrastructure on public blockchains."

– Rand Hindi, CEO @ Zama

“We're excited to partner with Zama as they build the compliance foundation for confidential finance. Our monitoring gives their operators real-time visibility into their own system - adding a layer of security and compliance without ever weakening the confidentiality institutions are there for.”

Gal Sagie, co-founder and CEO @ Hypernative

What’s Next

Compliance by design is not a single feature. It is an evolving architecture that combines protocol controls, screening, monitoring, governance, and confidentiality into a unified operational framework.

The Zama Protocol will continue expanding these capabilities to support the next generation of confidential financial applications and institutional adoption.