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Zama has acquired KKRT Labs, also known as Kakarot, to improve blockchain privacy and has partnered with LayerZero. This acquisition combines Zama's Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with Kakarot's Zero-Knowledge (ZK) rollup skills to achieve over 10,000 confidential transactions per second (TPS) on public blockchains. The collaboration with LayerZero incorporates Zama's privacy technology into LayerZero's interoperability protocol. It uses a Multi-Party Computation (MPC) operator to secure confidential computations across different blockchains.

Zama and Kakarot integration:
Kakarot's team and ZK rollup skills will join Zama to speed up the Zama protocol's capabilities. The goal is to enable confidential on-chain finance with high throughput and low latency on public blockchains like Ethereum and Solana. This acquisition received support from investors such as Vitalik Buterin and Starkware, who had previously invested in Kakarot.

Zama and LayerZero partnership:
LayerZero will serve as a "genesis operator" for Zama, helping to secure the cryptographic core of the Zama protocol. This integration blends privacy from Zama with interoperability from LayerZero, allowing confidential transactions to be validated and secured across multiple blockchains. This partnership takes advantage of LayerZero's large cross-chain network, which moves hundreds of billions in assets each year.

Impact on blockchain privacy:
Zama's technology uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), allowing computations on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. This ensures end-to-end privacy for transactions and smart contracts. The merger with Kakarot and partnership with LayerZero aim to tackle key challenges in blockchain adoption, including privacy, scalability, and interoperability. This move is expected to create more opportunities for use cases that need confidentiality, such as private payments, DeFi, and on-chain identity.
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