Zilliqa
Zilliqa is a blockchain infrastructure company that provides compliance-enforced settlement infrastructure for institutional onchain finance, running credential checks before transactions settle on any chain or settlement rail. The company's core innovation is its Mediation Layer, which sits above settlement and verifies whether two parties are permitted to transact before a transaction clears, enforcing compliance…
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Zilliqa is a blockchain infrastructure company that provides compliance-enforced settlement infrastructure for institutional onchain finance, running credential checks before transactions settle on any chain or settlement rail. The company's core innovation is its Mediation Layer, which sits above settlement and verifies whether two parties are permitted to transact before a transaction clears, enforcing compliance before state transitions rather than reconciling it after. This approach inverts the traditional institutional workflow where transactions settle first and compliance is reconciled afterward, enabling permissionless onchain finance with compliance enforced before settlement. Zilliqa's infrastructure is built for institutional load, with every state transition gated by identity-bound policy designed for regulated institutional flows. The network features sustainable economics where per-request validation fees replace treasury subsidy, with economics reported publicly every quarter. Zilliqa provides sovereign infrastructure through a settlement network across European financial hubs, with state-backed identity verification through Telecom Liechtenstein (LTIN) that issues verifiable identities while Zilliqa enforces them before settlement, designed to avoid CLOUD Act exposure. The platform supports staking through both traditional locked staking and liquid staking that maintains liquidity for use in other financial activities. Zilliqa's roadmap includes The Check for confirming party permissions, The Proof for verifiable credentials checked on-chain, The Economics for revenue from real network usage, and Any Rail for the same compliance check across any chain or settlement rail. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, Zilliqa operates at the Seed stage with backing from investors including NGC Ventures, FBG Capital, Comma3 Ventures, Turing Capital, AlphaCoin Fund, Signum Capital, Nirvana Capital, Du Capital, Marshland Capital, 8 Decimal Capital, and others.
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