{"id":15972,"date":"2025-11-14T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/seismic-secures-10m-for-blockchain-privacy-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:40:12","slug":"seismic-secures-10m-for-blockchain-privacy-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/seismic-secures-10m-for-blockchain-privacy-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Seismic secures $10m for blockchain privacy infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Seismic has raised $10 million in a round led by a16z to break the privacy barrier that\u2019s kept fintechs from using public blockchains for sensitive services like private credit and cash accounts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-default\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lyronctk\/status\/1988615844969038300\">Announced<\/a> Nov. 12 by founder Lyron Co Ting Keh, the funding\u2014joined by Polychain, dao5, Amber Group, TrueBridge Capital, and LayerZero Labs\u2014brings the startup\u2019s total to $17 million after its March seed round.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_df1c1999298cb2033f61f996c53783c4\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Seismic raised $10 million in a16z-led funding round, bringing total capital to $17M.<\/li>\n<li>The blockchain startup targets privacy barriers that limit fintech adoption of public blockchains.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Keh pointed to surging fintech interest in crypto for cross-border payments and lending, but identified the inherent transparency of public ledgers as a critical roadblock for handling sensitive user data.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Inside Seismic\u2019s vision for blockchain privacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Seismic is building an encrypted blockchain with privacy embedded at the base protocol \u2014 a departure from the wallet-level or app-layer tools that dominate today. Already live in devnet, the network allows smart contracts to process sensitive data without exposing it on a public ledger. Early partners include Brookwell, which offers stablecoin-based cash accounts, and Cred Protocol, which provides private credit scoring.<\/p>\n<p>The company expects to begin generating revenue early next year through per-transaction fees, eventually expanding into fiat ramps and card programs.<\/p>\n<p>The new round comes just months after a16z first backed the company in June. At the time, the firm argued that the radical transparency of major L1s remains a \u201ccritical barrier\u201d for industries like financial services and healthcare. Zero-knowledge proofs can guarantee correctness, they noted, but often \u201champer composability,\u201d making applications that require shared private state nearly impossible. Seismic\u2019s architecture, they argued, offers a way around that.<\/p>\n<p>The momentum also reflects a broader industry shift: blockchain privacy is moving from niche add-on to prerequisite for mainstream adoption. A16z\u2019s policy leads have compared the moment to the early internet, which needed HTTPS before e-commerce could take off\u2014arguing blockchains now require similar foundational privacy layers to mature.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seismic has raised $10 million in a round led by a16z to break the privacy barrier that\u2019s kept fintechs from using public blockchains for sensitive services like private credit and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15973,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions\/15973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}