Zama ZAMA
Zama (ZAMA) was trading at $0.0499, ranked #242 by market cap at $109.77M, with 24h volume of $6.49M.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-02 12:15 UTC.
Zama builds fully homomorphic encryption for blockchains, letting contracts compute directly on encrypted values so balances and inputs stay private while remaining verifiable. FHE has long been considered too slow to be practical, and whether Zama's hardware and compiler work bring it to usable speed is the open question the project rests on. Zama works on fully homomorphic encryption — computation performed directly on encrypted data, so a contract can process values it never sees in plaintext. If it becomes practical at scale it changes what is possible on a public chain: confidential balances and private logic without a separate privacy chain. The honest caveat is performance: FHE is computationally expensive, and whether it becomes fast enough for general use is still an open engineering question rather than a settled result. On this map it is a recent, small-cap privacy-sector asset.
What is fully homomorphic encryption?
A method of computing directly on encrypted data, so a program can process values without ever decrypting them. The result stays encrypted until the owner decrypts it.
Why would that matter on a blockchain?
It would allow confidential balances and private contract logic on a public chain, without needing a separate privacy network.
What is the limitation?
Computational cost. FHE is far slower than ordinary computation, and whether it becomes practical at scale is an open engineering question.
How mature is the project?
It is recent, with a short market history. Its value rests on a technology that is still being made practical rather than on current usage.
Market cap decides how big a bubble is drawn, so rank is what places ZAMA on the map relative to the rest of its sector.
| Rank | Coin | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| #15 | Zcash (ZEC) | $8.67B |
| #92 | Beldex (BDX) | $619.71M |
| #100 | Dash (DASH) | $534.63M |
| #242 | Zama (ZAMA) | $109.77M |
| #270 | Horizen (ZEN) | $99.27M |
