ZK Pool Overview

ZK Pool is the layer where everything finally happens — and where most on-chain systems usually fail.

In many protocols, governance and execution may look clean on paper, but the moment assets move, everything becomes visible. Wallets are exposed. Flows can be traced. Strategies turn into public signals. Over time, the entire behavior of a fund can be reconstructed from the chain.

ZK Pool exists to break that pattern.

At a high level, ZK Pool is a private settlement environment used by ZKFund to move assets, execute trades, and update balances without creating traceable on-chain footprints. It is not a public pool, not an AMM, and not something users interact with directly. It is an execution substrate — designed specifically to absorb sensitive actions and leave behind only cryptographic proof that those actions were valid.

The core idea is simple: the chain should know that something correct happened, but never know what happened.

When a proposal is approved and execution is authorized, ZK Pool takes over. Assets are settled inside a shielded context. Transfers, swaps, and allocations occur without exposing sender, receiver, amounts, or routing. Once settlement is complete, the only thing that touches the public chain is a proof — a receipt that says this action was allowed, executed correctly, and followed all rules.

Importantly, ZK Pool is not trying to hide mistakes or reduce accountability. It does the opposite. Every settlement produces a proof that can be verified by anyone. If something violates governance constraints, execution simply fails. What ZK Pool removes is unnecessary information leakage, not correctness.

This distinction matters. Privacy in ZKFund is not about secrecy for its own sake. It is about removing attack surfaces:

• No visible treasury to monitor

• No execution timing to front-run

• No balance changes to analyze

• No transaction graph to mine for intelligence

From the outside, repeated settlements through ZK Pool are indistinguishable from one another. There is no pattern to follow, no story to reconstruct, no signal to trade against. Capital moves, but it does not announce itself.

ZK Pool is also deliberately modular. It does not assume a single chain, a single DEX, or a single liquidity source. Its role is not to provide liquidity, but to settle outcomes privately, wherever that liquidity ultimately comes from. This makes it suitable for OTC flows, fund rebalancing, cross-venue execution, and future multi-chain expansion.

In short, ZK Pool is the final privacy boundary of ZKFund.

Governance decides what should happen. Execution proves who is allowed to make it happen. ZK Pool ensures that when it happens, nothing leaks.

That is why ZK Pool is not an optional component. Without it, private governance would collapse the moment capital moves.