Zypher Network Secures $7 Million Funding for AI Trust Infrastructure

Zypher Network, a decentralized trust infrastructure provider for autonomous AI agents, has successfully closed a $7 million funding round. This investment was co-led by UOB Venture and Signum Capital, with additional participation from HashKey Capital, Hong Leong Group, Cogitent Ventures, Catcher VC, Hydrogenesis Labs, DWF Venture, and other strategic investors. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of Zypher's zero-knowledge (ZK) protocol stack and AI-specific rollup infrastructure, Zytron.

The market for agent-driven ecosystems is projected to reach $250–350 billion by 2035, with significant transformative potential across the broader $10 trillion “as-a-service” sector. This growth underscores the urgent need for standardized, verifiable mechanisms to ensure trust, reliability, and accountability in AI agent behavior. Zypher Network addresses this need through its open-source, zero-knowledge protocol suite, which is designed to certify agent integrity, transparency, and data privacy.

Zypher's flagship product, Proof of Prompt, is a zkTLS-inspired protocol that enables public verification of system prompts without revealing sensitive inputs or outputs. This solution is delivered via a RESTful API, making it accessible to developers and enterprises integrating agent-based automation across various domains such as legal operations, customer support, robotics, and financial services. For end-users, Zypher also offers an AI security browser that enables real-time detection of potentially malicious agentic behavior.

The API layer is powered by Zytron, Zypher’s dedicated AI rollup infrastructure. The first production instance of Zytron operates as a Layer 2 on BNB Chain, compatible with RISC-V architecture. Zytron also supports Proof Mining, a decentralized prover system based on Proof of Verifiable Work, facilitating scalable, distributed ZK proof computation and verification.

Signum Capital's Managing Partner, YY, expressed excitement about Zypher’s “proof of prompts” distributed solution and the committed team behind it. He foresees Zytron as an important building block to embed trust in AI applications.

The newly raised capital will be allocated toward team expansion, infrastructure scaling, and the launch of incentive-driven initiatives aimed at broadening Zypher’s developer and user ecosystem. Zypher has already engaged over one million on-chain participants through its community campaigns and ecosystem programs. Its trust layer is integrated with a wide array of leading protocols, enhancing interoperability and improving the developer experience.

In the coming months, Zypher plans to roll out a large-scale Social & Proof Mining campaign designed to incentivize decentralized agent verification, with early participation from key agent partners across its network. Giv, Zypher CEO, stated that their trust layer protocol is redefining what’s possible in agent verification, and with this funding, they are accelerating the rollout of scalable ZK infrastructure that ensures trust without sacrificing privacy.

Zypher Network operates in Silicon Valley and is dedicated to empowering developers and enterprises to build secure, scalable AI systems for both Web3-native and real-world applications. The company's mission is to enable verifiable autonomy for AI agents through zero-knowledge protocols and its purpose-built rollup infrastructure, Zytron.