Zama and Morpho expand confidential yield products to 16 vaults and launch a private swap protocol
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Zama, Morpho, and five institutional curators announced the expansion of a single confidential USDC vault into 16 vaults spanning five asset types, alongside the launch of a confidential swap protocol.
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Confidential Onchain Yield: The Missing Infrastructure for Institutional Capital Credit: DefiLlama Research · © Zama Executive Summary A new DeFi category is forming around a simple premise: institutions want the composability of public blockchains without broadcasting their positions to every competitor and MEV bot watching the chain. Call it confidential DeFi — the use of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), multi-party computation (MPC), or trusted execution environ
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A specialist research article explicitly identifies the participants, asset scope, and publication date of the core expansion, and distinguishes DefiLlama-tracked data from Zama-reported data; however, some adoption and performance metrics come from interested parties, and complete quarterly operating data are still unavailable. The event indicates that institutional privacy DeFi is moving from a single pilot to multi-asset, multi-curator deployment, although its current scale remains small relative to Morpho's overall TVL.
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Risks and unknowns
- Actual launch timing, itemized TVL, and net inflows for the 16 confidential vaults
- Trading volume and active-user count for the first full quarter of the Zama Swap Protocol
- Whether the Steakhouse confidential USDC vault can remain near its current TVL after incentives end
- Whether a second major vault or lending ecosystem beyond Morpho adopts a similar solution
- Audit results, wallet-support coverage, and regulatory attitudes toward ERC-7984
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