Zcash × NEAR × Zero-Knowledge
Private capital for public impact.
Matching anonymous donors with verified-but-pseudonymous builders, students, and activists. Funds move through shielded Zcash addresses, coordination lives on NEAR, guarantees come from zk-proofs—identity never leaves the dark.
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Two interfaces, one private graph.
Patrons express intent. Builders prove credibility. Privora stitches encrypted signals into matches without exposing either side to the public ledger.
For patrons
Intent → Match → Shielded settlement
- Specify topics, geography and funding amount in a private preference UI.
- Browse pseudonymous, verified recipients—no names, just proofs and work.
- Send ZEC to shielded addresses so amounts and counterparties never go public.
- Receive a non-transferable SBT on NEAR as proof of impact, not clout.
For builders
zk-credentials → encrypted profile
- Create an encrypted profile with skills, focus areas, and coarse geography.
- Attach zk-proofs for humanness, affiliations, or residency—no identity leakage.
- Get matched against donor intents via encrypted attribute graphs.
- Receive funds through Zcash shielded transfers, not doxxable bank rails.
STACK
Privacy-first primitives, composed for philanthropy.
Each layer handles exactly one job—payments, coordination, proofs—so we can reason about guarantees without hand-waving.
Zcash shielded payments
Donations flow through Z-addresses (shielded addresses). Transaction amounts, senders, and recipients remain encrypted on-chain using zk-SNARKs. Only the parties involved can decrypt their own transactions.
NEAR AI Cloud matching
Patron intents are matched with builder profiles using NEAR AI Cloud's TEE (Trusted Execution Environment). PII is stripped server-side before matching, ensuring privacy-preserving persona discovery without exposing sensitive data.
FHE-enabled verification
Builders prove Network School residency and other credentials using FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption) on Fhenix. Verification status is encrypted and only decryptable by the claimant via CoFHE.