Catenaa, Monday, August 17, 2026- Blockchain privacy project Zama has listed its ZAMA token on Revolut across the European Economic Area, opening access to the fintech platform’s more than 70 million customers.
The move gives Zama exposure beyond crypto-native exchanges and wallets. More than 15 million Revolut customers already trade cryptocurrencies through the platform.
Existing customers can buy and hold ZAMA through their Revolut accounts without creating another account or undergoing additional identity checks.
Users will also be able to withdraw ZAMA from Revolut into self-custody wallets, allowing them to move the asset outside the fintech platform.
The listing comes as Zama attempts to solve one of public blockchains’ longstanding limitations: financial privacy.
Transactions conducted on networks such as Ethereum are generally visible onchain. That transparency allows transactions to be verified but can expose balances and financial activity.
Zama uses a technology called fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, which allows information to remain encrypted even while computations are performed on it.
In practical terms, the technology could allow blockchain applications to process transactions without publicly exposing information such as balances, positions or transaction values.
Zama has compared the development of blockchain privacy to the introduction of HTTPS encryption on the internet, when encrypted connections gradually became standard for websites rather than a specialist feature.
That comparison points to a potentially larger market than privacy-focused cryptocurrency transfers.
Financial institutions exploring tokenized securities and other blockchain-based products may be reluctant to place sensitive transaction information on networks where competitors or the public can inspect it.
Encrypted blockchain infrastructure could offer another approach.
Zama has been moving its technology from research into working financial applications.
In June, it partnered with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial to introduce a confidential DeFi yield vault on Ethereum.
The company also acquired TokenOps in May as part of an effort to support encrypted token distributions for institutional issuers.
ZAMA itself launched in February following a sealed-bid Dutch auction. The auction used Zama’s encryption technology to conceal bids while they were processed on Ethereum.
More than $121 million was protected through the system during the sale, demonstrating the technology at a larger scale on a public blockchain.
The Revolut listing does not itself increase adoption of Zama’s encryption infrastructure. It does, however, considerably widen access to the token supporting the ecosystem.
That distinction matters as blockchain privacy increasingly moves beyond anonymous payments toward confidential financial infrastructure.
If tokenized stocks, funds, credit products and other financial assets increasingly move onchain, institutions may demand privacy protections closer to those available in conventional finance.
Zama is betting that encryption performed directly on public blockchains can help fill that gap.
