Zama wallet

What is Zama (ZAMA)?

Most tokens named after a cryptography company are little more than a brand. ZAMA has a narrower job: it is the token of the Zama Protocol, a confidentiality layer that lets smart contracts on Ethereum and other EVM chains compute on encrypted data using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Applications built on it keep balances, bids or votes encrypted from end to end, while a network of coprocessors does the arithmetic directly on ciphertexts without ever decrypting them. ZAMA is what pays the protocol's fees for that work, such as verifying encrypted inputs and decrypting results, and the operators who run coprocessors and key management nodes lock it up to take part in the protocol.

What this means for a holder

The token itself is ordinary. Its home is Ethereum, where it is a standard ERC-20 paid for in ETH, and the copies on other networks are representations of the same asset, so one address can hold more than one separate ZAMA balance at once. On Solana the token lives in a token account that has to be funded with a little SOL before it can receive anything, and every transfer there is paid in SOL, not ZAMA. Nothing about your balance is encrypted or hidden: the confidentiality Zama builds applies to applications running on the protocol, not to the ZAMA token sitting in a wallet. It does not rebase or accrue anything on its own; it moves only when you sign a transfer.

Supported networks in Tangem (3): Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana.

Because the same address can carry ZAMA on more than one EVM network, the Tangem app keeps each network's balance apart and names the network a transfer is leaving on before the card is asked to sign, so you confirm the route each time instead of discovering it afterwards. For an asset whose main hazard is picking the wrong network rather than anything in the token itself, that one habit is the whole point of keeping it here.