Web3 research.

A proof of concept bringing Partisia’s confidential multi-party computation (MPC) to Cardano through Aiken smart contracts. A data buyer can query a demographic aggregate — “how many users are over 18?” — without ever seeing an individual record. An Aiken validator on Cardano Preprod records the request, an off-chain relay bridges it to Partisia, a zero-knowledge MPC contract computes the aggregate, and the result is returned with zero individual data exposed. Delivered across four milestones (Aiken contract; Partisia ZK contract + relay; secret-input flow with privacy verification; MPC computation + closeout).

The whitepaper for ZEKE ($ZEKE), the Zero Knowledge Token — the Cardano-native utility token that powers incentives and payments across the Profila ecosystem. It rewards people for privacy learning, profile-building and data sharing, and settles frictionless transactions between people and brands. Its tokenomics and utility are drawn out below; a PwC legal confirmation of its status as a utility token supports it.

A Catalyst Fund 9 project with HSLU bringing an AI legal assistant to the Cardano community. It matches a plain-language question to a smart knowledge base of over a million laws, contracts and policies — returning automated answers for common questions on tax, compliance and financial regulation, or routing complex ones to a qualified expert, at a fraction of the usual legal fee. It shares its lineage with Profila’s AI Privacy Lawyer research.

A two-part, back-to-back Catalyst effort to put anonymity and data control on-chain through the Zero-Knowledge Token (ZKT), a Cardano-native token. Part 1 (Fund 7) introduced the ZKT and rewarded people for learning their privacy rights, building an accurate profile, and taking part in zero-knowledge advertising — personalised ads without exposing the person. Part 2 (Fund 8) extended the same token to a second use case: compensating people for brand interactions — viewing ads and giving feedback — so rewards track real engagement, not just profile completion. Together they trace Profila’s consent-and-compensation model from self-discovery to brand engagement.

Two aligned Catalyst grants integrating Atala PRISM decentralised identity (DID) into Profila. Part 1 (Fund 6) established the identity layer — a cryptographic proof of identity so a person can selectively share data with brands in exchange for compensation. Part 2 (Fund 8, Accelerate Decentralized Identity) extended it into a consent-based data-vault app with an integrated DID that records personal-data licenses, bringing PRISM to the consumer mobile app. Together they give people a portable, self-owned identity beneath the consent-and-compensation model.

A Catalyst Fund 6 project letting people monetise the feedback and creative content they share with brands. A “create NFT” button on Profila’s Consumer Moments turns a review, photo or video into a tradeable NFT a brand can buy — compensating the creator for genuine market insight and user-generated content, rather than handing it over for free.

A consent-based app that records personal-data licences on Cardano with smart contracts. Rather than putting sensitive data on-chain, it stores the encrypted contract terms and payment authorisation — so a person can prove a data-sharing agreement, be paid in instant ADA micropayments when an organisation accesses their data, and hold companies accountable for misuse. This data-subscription-contract work became the foundation the Fund 12 Cardano × Partisia MPC project later built on.

Two aligned Catalyst grants building a privacy ledger on Cardano — tamper-proof proof of the data-rights requests people make. Part 1 (Fund 5) created the metadata ledger: when someone opts out of marketing or demands deletion, the request is recorded on-chain — “unsubscribe on steroids.” Part 2 (Fund 8) recorded both the request and the company’s response as smart contracts, turning a data-subject right into legally enforceable evidence of who asked for what and whether the company complied.

The company-side counterpart to the privacy ledger. A blockchain ledger that lets brands handle data-subject-rights requests from a dashboard and keep immutable legal proof of compliance — every consumer privacy request under GDPR and CCPA recorded on Cardano, evidencing timely responses and regulatory adherence.