In January 2026, after six years of development, a new public chain is finally launching its mainnet. The selling point of this project is very straightforward—native support for confidential smart contracts, with transactions, balances, and contract states all privacy-preserving, and verifiable through zero-knowledge proofs. It sounds a bit complex, but the core idea is to give you bank-level privacy in DeFi while still being compliant with regulatory oversight.

The technology stack is well laid out. EVM-compatible with Solidity, making migration almost zero for developers; built-in auditing modules allow ZK transactions to be traceable, so privacy and compliance are no longer mutually exclusive. Plus, with instant settlement and standardized profit contract templates, it directly addresses the pain points of traditional finance.

Looking at the RWA (Real-World Assets) track, most projects are still in the tokenization stage, but this project has already integrated privacy, compliance, and institutional-grade infrastructure. This is what regulated DeFi should look like. As the ecosystem’s gas and staking tokens, once real assets start to be tokenized on a large scale, the value will be released very directly. For those optimistic about privacy finance, this is indeed an overlooked contender.