Zama Opens Confidential Access to DeFi's Existing Yield Venues

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Zama opens confidential access to defies existing yield venues by Chainwire. Paris, France, September 17, 2026, Chainwire, Zama, the fastest-growing confidentiality protocol for on-chain finance, today announced a major expansion of confidential access to on-chain yield in partnership with Morpho, alongside five of the leading DeFi curators, Stakehouse Financial, Armitage by Wintermute, Flowdesk, RockawayX, and Bitwise. The launch adds 16 confidential vaults across five asset classes, USDC, USDT, WBTC, AUSD, and TGBP, and opens the public launch of the XamaSwap protocol, allowing users to confidentially swap between confidential assets on Ethereum. This launch builds on the Confidential Steakhouse USDC Prime Vault Zama launched with Morpho and Steakhouse in June 2026, which grew from $0 to $40 million INTVL within seven weeks and established Confidential DeFi as a proven institutional product category. On public blockchains, positions, balances, and strategies are visible to competitors and frontrunners, a structural blocker to institutional deployment at scale. By expanding the range of curated confidential vaults and adding four new asset classes as deposit assets, Zama enables institutional allocators, corporate treasuries, and active market participants to access diversified on-chain yield without disclosing their holdings or strategies. When we launched the first confidential USDC vault with Morpho and Steakhouse in June, we proved that confidentiality and DeFi are not mutually exclusive, said Dr. Rand Hindi, co-founder and CEO of Zama. Today's expansion is proof of the model at scale. 16 vaults, 5 curators, 5 asset classes, all built in the same DeFi infrastructure that Sophisticated Capital already uses. Same vaults, same curators, same liquidity, now with confidential entry. This is how confidential DeFi becomes a category and not an experiment. The expansion offers depositors two types of confidential vaults, running in parallel, 12 hybrid vaults, confidential entry to existing curated vaults, including the Prime USDT vault curated by Steakhouse. Same strategy, same liquidity, and same risk profile as the underlying vault, with confidential deposit and position. Four exclusive vaults. Net new confidential only vaults with no public equivalent, including the Wintermute Confidential WBTC, ARMC WBTC. Opening parenthesis dash dash dash dash closing parenthesis dot. All 16 vaults are deployed on Morpho and available today through the Zama app. Additional entry points, including Utila, Zarian Wallet, and Yield. XYZ, will roll out in the weeks following launch. The XAMA swap protocol launches alongside the Vault suite, allowing depositors to swap between confidential assets, including all Vault share positions, and CUSDC, CUSDT, CWBTC, CAUSD, and CTGBP, without exposing intent or size. This closes the full deposit-earned swap loop entirely inside a confidential envelope. Greater-than institutions have increasingly been exploring how on-chain capital allocation greater-than can be made more confidential to fit their requirements. Adding these