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Solana is the world’s most active blockchain — the go-to ecosystem for top developers, breakthrough consumer apps, and the rapid rise of Internet Capital Markets. It’s where the fastest builders ship and where the next generation of finance is taking shape.
Now, Encrypt is adding something entirely new to the mix: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, or FHE. This groundbreaking cryptographic capability allows applications to perform computations directly on encrypted data — meaning sensitive information stays private even as logic executes on-chain.
For developers and institutions building high-performance financial applications on Solana, this changes everything. Privacy is no longer an afterthought or a trade-off — it becomes a native feature. Trading venues, lending markets, auctions, prediction markets, and a host of other application categories that once struggled on public blockchains due to privacy constraints can now be built with confidentiality baked in from the ground up.
Solana was already the best place to build. With Encrypt, it becomes the best place to build privately.
 
Blockchains have long been celebrated for their composability — but privacy has remained an unsolved problem. Most existing approaches force builders to choose: trusted operators, specialized hardware, single-user confidentiality that breaks down in shared applications, or privacy systems that sacrifice composability altogether. Many are simply too slow or too constrained to support real financial applications.
Encrypt is built to change that.
By bringing Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Solana, Encrypt introduces a cryptographic breakthrough that eliminates the trade-off entirely. FHE allows computation to run directly on encrypted data — no decryption required. Balances, positions, orders, and application state stay encrypted throughout execution, never exposed to the public or to other participants.
For Solana builders, this opens an entirely new design space: financial applications that are fast, composable, and confidential by default.
Confidential trading, hidden liquidity, private collateral, sealed-bid auctions, private prediction markets, encrypted strategy vaults, and FHE-TLS applications with verifiable read/write API calls — all of this can now be built in a way that feels native to Solana’s execution environment. Privacy is no longer a patch applied on top of an application. It’s baked into the foundation.
“Solana already has the performance, developer energy, and market structure to become the home of the next generation of onchain finance,” said Dolev Mutzari, Co-Founder of Encrypt. “Encrypt adds a missing primitive: the ability to build applications that keep sensitive data encrypted while still running on a public blockchain. That is what Encrypted Capital Markets means.”
A New Primitive for Solana Developers
At the core of Encrypt is a developer platform purpose-built for writing encrypted Solana programs — one that treats confidentiality not as a feature to be added later, but as a foundational property of the application itself.
Developers and institutions can build programs that operate entirely on encrypted inputs and encrypted state, without sacrificing the composability and programmability that make Solana the world’s leading execution environment.
The implications reach across every layer of the ecosystem.
For users, public blockchain no longer means fully public financial behavior. For developers, entirely new product categories become practical: markets with hidden intent, lending systems with confidential positions, sealed-bid marketplaces, and applications where privacy is a core part of the experience — not a compromise. For institutions, Encrypt removes one of the last major barriers to on-chain adoption, making it possible to benefit from a public, permissionless, and composable blockchain without exposing sensitive data.
Critically, Encrypt is built for real applications — not just proofs of concept. Its architecture is designed to make confidential execution practical in the kinds of high-throughput, low-latency, composable environments that modern on-chain markets demand.
Privacy that performs. That’s the standard Encrypt is building to.
Why It Matters
Much of crypto still operates on the default assumption that everything is visible. Every action, every position, every strategy — exposed on-chain for anyone to see.
That transparency has real value. But it also carries real costs. Traders reveal their intent before a transaction even executes. Liquidity providers expose their positions to the market. Institutions find it difficult to participate in public markets where every move is immediately readable. And entire categories of applications — those requiring confidential shared state — simply cannot exist in a fully transparent environment.
Encrypt gives Solana builders a way past those limits, without giving up the openness and composability that make public blockchains worth building on in the first place.
That is the promise of Encrypted Capital Markets: a world where sensitive financial logic can move on-chain — where users, institutions, and applications can transact, collaborate, and compete without being forced to reveal everything in public.
Transparency where it matters. Privacy where it counts.
“Solana has already proven that markets can move onchain,” said David Lachmish, Co-Founder of Encrypt. “The next frontier is cryptographic guarantees for private state on a public blockchain, and Encrypt brings FHE to Solana to make confidentiality a native building block for composable applications.”
With Encrypt, Solana moves closer to a future where markets remain onchain, programmable, and globally accessible — while confidentiality becomes a core part of the infrastructure, not an afterthought.
Encrypt will go live on Solana devnet in early Q2, with a full mainnet launch to follow later this year.
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