The founder built and shipped the ZK engine, 18,000 lines of Rust, the live product, and nine fully published self-retractions (40+ retracted overall) before raising outside capital. That is the strongest possible signal on the one thing investors most want to de-risk: execution. The raise funds the first two hires, a senior proof engineer and an allocator BD lead. Dr. Anish Mohammed advises on the cryptography.
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