Hinkal
Hinkal is a multichain privacy and compliance payments protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to shield addresses, amounts and counterparties while screening via Chainalysis KYT.
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Hinkal is a multichain privacy and compliance payments protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to shield addresses, amounts and counterparties while screening via Chainalysis KYT. Products include Hinkal Pay, Hinkal Wallet, an integration suite and the institutional Hinkal Prime; Hinkal MCP lets AI assistants execute private on-chain payments. Founded in 2023 by brothers Georgi and Nika Koreli, incubated by the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator and Binance Labs (now YZi Labs).
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Hinkal
Hinkal is a multichain privacy and compliance payments protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to shield addresses, amounts and counterparties while screening via Chainalysis KYT. Products include Hinkal Pay, Hinkal Wallet, an integration suite and the institutional Hinkal Prime; Hinkal MCP lets AI assistants execute private on-chain payments. Founded in 2023 by brothers Georgi and Nika Koreli, incubated by the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator and Binance Labs (now YZi Labs).
$4M
$4M
United States
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