What Problem ZKFund Solves
On-chain governance and fund management today suffer from a structural mismatch: systems are transparent by design, but capital coordination requires confidentiality.
ZKFund addresses this mismatch by redesigning governance and fund execution around verifiable privacy.
1. Public Governance Creates Influence and Coercion
In most DAOs:
Votes are publicly linked to wallet addresses
Voting trends are visible before finalization
Large holders can observe, pressure, or counteract decisions in real time
This leads to:
Vote buying and coercion
Strategic abstention or late voting
Governance capture by visible whales
ZKFund removes this attack surface by replacing public voting with zero-knowledge voting proofs. The system verifies that a vote is valid and authorized, without revealing who voted or how.
2. Treasury Transparency Leaks Strategy
Public treasuries expose:
Asset composition
Timing of swaps and withdrawals
Counterparties and execution paths
For funds and OTC desks, this means:
Front-running by MEV and market participants
Strategy replication
Increased execution cost and slippage
Targeted attacks on large wallets
ZKFund introduces a stealth treasury model where assets are managed through private execution and settled via ZK Pools. Only cryptographic receipts are published—never balances, recipients, or routes.
3. Existing Multisig Wallets Are Not Private
Traditional multisigs:
Expose signer addresses
Reveal who approved which action
Leak internal governance structure
Even when funds are safe, organizational intelligence is lost.
ZKFund replaces visible multisig signatures with ZK multisig proofs. Signers prove membership and approval without revealing identity, while contracts still enforce strict threshold rules.
4. OTC and Private Funds Lack On-Chain Governance
Most OTC desks and private funds operate:
Off-chain for governance
On-chain only for settlement
This creates:
Operational risk
Limited auditability
Trust-based internal processes
ZKFund brings on-chain governance to private funds, allowing decisions to be enforced by smart contracts without exposing fund internals.
5. Compliance Often Requires Identity Exposure
Compliance solutions typically rely on:
KYC databases
Address blacklists
Identity-linked attestations
These approaches:
Break privacy
Create honeypots of sensitive data
Are incompatible with anonymous governance
ZKFund enables proof-based compliance, where a fund can prove it follows specific rules or constraints without revealing identities, transactions, or counterparties.
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