We build tech,
not promises.

A deep tech venture studio. We embed as technical co-founders and build the hard parts: Rust, smart contracts, payment rails, distributed systems, and zero-knowledge. Quality software in production, not mocks.

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RustRust DSLsSorobanSmart ContractsPaymentsRWAsZero-KnowledgeNoirHalo2FROSTFHETEEsAIDistributed SystemsSolidityRustRust DSLsSorobanSmart ContractsPaymentsRWAsZero-KnowledgeNoirHalo2FROSTFHETEEsAIDistributed SystemsSolidity

We co-found the hard parts.

We embed as technical co-founders from day zero. Rust, zero-knowledge, and distributed systems: the hard parts most teams can't build, we own.

Embedded co-founders

We join as your technical partner from day zero. Equity, not hourly billing. Your domain, our engineering.

Rust & systems

High-performance, provably-correct software. Distributed systems, smart contracts, matching engines, and protocol cores in Rust, built to be fast and right.

Cryptography depth

Zero-knowledge, FHE, TEEs, and threshold signatures. The rare deep-tech expertise most teams simply can't hire.

Our thesis

We bet on the tech that isn't obvious yet.

We go deep where the engineering is hard and the market hasn't fully arrived: Rust-grade systems, zero-knowledge, real-world assets, and AI.

// Thesis 01

Rust & Rust DSLs

High-performance protocol engines, smart contracts, and domain-specific languages in Rust. The substrate for payments, RWA rails, and anything that has to be fast and provably correct — including Soroban.

RustSorobanPaymentsSystems
// Thesis 02

Zero-Knowledge

Privacy and scalability without sacrificing verifiability. We build circuits and proving systems with Noir, Halo2, and Barretenberg to take identity, compliance, and confidential compute to production.

NoirHalo2BarretenbergPrivacy
// Thesis 03

Real-World Assets

Bringing off-chain value on-chain with compliance embedded in the transfer layer. Tokenization rails built to satisfy regulators, not just demos.

RWAComplianceTokenization
// Thesis 04

AI

Where deep tech meets intelligence: verifiable inference, agentic systems, and cryptographic guarantees for AI pipelines you can actually trust.

AIAgentsVerifiable

Not a vendor. Cracked engineers.

Rust-grade distributed systems and smart contracts, plus the rare deep tech most teams can't hire for: zero-knowledge, FHE, TEEs, and threshold signatures. We build the parts other people are scared to touch.

Selected builds

The work that proves it.

Hackathon-winning protocols, research, and prototypes. The work that shows we can build the hard parts.

// Featured · Threshold custody

OGBank

Threshold-custody vaults for self-sovereign payments, secured by re-randomized FROST signatures (ZIP-312). A full protocol design, shipped as a whitepaper and RFC.

FROSTCustodyRust
Whitepaper + RFC
// RWA · Tokenization

M2 Market

A tokenized real-estate marketplace bringing fractional property ownership on-chain, with compliance built into the transfer layer.

RWATokenizationReal Estate
Client
// ZK · Privacy

ZLend

Privacy-preserving lending built with Noir and UltraHonk over Railgun shielded pools.

NoirUltraHonk
Hackathon winner
Benchmarks

We build tech with real data.

We measure everything. Below is a real CPU flamegraph of our ZK prove+verify loop.

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The stack

The deep-tech stack we live in.

We work close to the metal. Proving systems, fully homomorphic encryption, trusted execution, and threshold cryptography: the tools most teams only read about, we build with.

Noir / Aztec
Halo2
Barretenberg
tfhe-rs
Phala TEE
FROST
How we operate

From spec to prod.

Scope

We map the problem, the threat model, and the mechanism, and pressure-test whether it's worth building at all.

Build

Protocol cores, smart contracts, ZK circuits, and distributed systems in Rust. Short iterations, tested and fuzzed from day one.

Ship

Audited, deployed, and real. Quality software in production, not mocks.

Partner

We stay on as long-term technical partners or co-founders, not a one-off contractor.

Want to build something real?

If you're building something hard in Rust — smart contracts, payments, or ZK and want a technical partner who writes the code, not slides, let's talk.

hello@serendipia.dev