ZkAGI

zkAGI is a private AI platform for firms that cannot send their data to an outside AI provider. It runs AI models in a place the customer picks, such as its own servers or one country. Each call comes back with a receipt that shows how the data was kept safe.

The project began in April 2024 as a "Privacy AI DePIN", a shared pool of GPUs for private AI. It now sells private AI to health, bank and law teams. Its ZKAGI token went live on Robinhood Chain in September 2026. The link to Solana is a set of developer tools and a wallet app.

How zkAGI private AI inference works

zkAGI moves the AI model to the data, instead of sending the data to the model. You pick who you are willing to trust, and the platform applies that choice to every request. The zkAGI website calls this choice a trust anchor, and there are three: hardware, mathematics, or both.

Hardware means the model runs inside a sealed part of a chip, known as a trusted execution environment or TEE, that the machine's own operator cannot read. Mathematics means your data is split or scrambled before any machine sees it. The main method is multi-party computation (MPC), where pieces of the data go to separate operators and no single one holds enough to rebuild it.

You reach all of this through an API that copies OpenAI's format. zkAGI says most teams switch by changing one line of code, the address their software calls. A piece of software called the Altaica compiler then picks the protection methods for each job, so your engineers do not choose between them by hand.

Each answer comes back with a receipt. The receipt lists the trust anchor, the tier, and a proof that an auditor can check without asking zkAGI. The zkAGI docs present this as evidence for rules such as HIPAA, GDPR and the EU AI Act.

zkAGI tiers: Standard, Private and Sovereign

zkAGI sells three levels of protection, and only the first two are live. The top tier, Sovereign, is still marked as active research. You can set the tier on each request from the same API key, as the tiers page explains.

The status column comes from zkAGI's own status board, last checked in July 2026. The same board lists three more items as active R&D: training a shared model across sites, private fine-tuning, and the compiler that builds a stack for each customer. Sealed-chip serving on NVIDIA, Intel and AWS hardware is set up for each customer. You cannot switch it on yourself.

There are two ways to pay. The self-serve API is billed by use. Guided rollouts start from $10,000, as the website's FAQ states.

zkTerminal, PawPad and the Zynapse API

zkAGI has three products: an API for developers, a workspace for firms and a wallet app for trading agents.

The Zynapse API is the developer tool. Its reference page lists what it can do. It can make a privacy proof for a file on your own device, answer questions using that proof, and create images and video.

zkTerminal is the workspace. Version 2 went live on 13 September 2026. In its launch post, zkAGI said a firm first sets up a "company brain" on a sealed virtual machine. Staff then use the terminal to start AI agents that draw on it. The same post named early users: a business software installer in India, the fashion agent Brat, the wellness app WandrLust and the music tool Beatfarm.

PawPad is a wallet for private trading agents. It runs on sealed-chip systems from Oasis, which gave zkAGI a grant for the work. An Oasis blog post from September 2025 says PawPad lets an agent sign trades on Solana and on EVM chains with no bridge.

The website and docs no longer cover older products such as ZkSurfer, the AI Launchpad and the Privacy Ad Engine.

Is zkAGI on Solana?

zkAGI is partly on Solana: it has built Solana tools, but its token is on another chain. Solana Compass found no zkAGI on-chain program on Solana to list, and the current docs do not mention the network.

The clearest link is open-source code. The zkagi-agent-kit on GitHub describes itself as an upgrade to the Solana Agent Kit, a toolkit that lets AI agents send Solana transactions. zkAGI's version adds zero-knowledge proofs meant to show that an AI output is authentic. PawPad also began as a Solana project. zkAGI's May 2025 progress report says the team built it with the Solana Agent Kit and entered it in a Solana hackathon.

zkAGI's token page says its "DePIN compute runs on Solana". We could not confirm that from an on-chain program or from the docs, so treat it as the project's own statement.

ZKAGI token: Robinhood Chain launch, supply and utility

ZKAGI is the token you can use to pay for zkAGI's services. It went live on 14 September 2026 through Virtuals on Robinhood Chain, a network built on top of Ethereum. It is not a Solana token.

In its launch post, zkAGI gave one contract address on Robinhood Chain and said any other ZKAGI contract is a fake. Tokens on Solana that use the zkAGI name are not the one the team launched. Check the address in that post before you trade.

The token pays for private AI calls, API access, the company brain, agent use and help from zkAGI's engineers. People who run GPU nodes earn it, and tokens are burned when spent. zkAGI says the token gives no share of the firm, its income or any buyback. You do not need it to be a customer. zkAGI said in a September 2026 post that firms can pay in normal money.

The total supply is 1 billion, as the Virtuals launch page shows. The main shares are:

Who zkAGI is for

zkAGI suits a team that wants to use large AI models on data it may not send to an outside firm. The best fit is a hospital, bank or law firm. That team needs legal staff who already accept sealed chips or maths as proof, and the money for a guided rollout. zkAGI says it does not take defence work.

A Solana developer gets less from it. The agent kit and PawPad help if you build AI agents that hold keys and sign trades. If you want a network that settles private computing on Solana itself, zkAGI does not offer that today.

Is zkAGI safe? Risks and limits

zkAGI has no outside audit, and it says so. Its disclosures page states that the service "has not itself been audited or certified" against HIPAA, GDPR or the EU AI Act. The privacy scores on its website come from zkAGI's own tests. One example is the claim that under 0.05% of text can be rebuilt on the Private tier.

Each trust anchor has a weak point, and the security model sets them out. The chip route relies on the chip maker and its code. The MPC route holds only if the node runners do not all work together against you. A stolen API key, or a hacked device on your side, beats both.

The open code for Altaica-Mesh is frank about one method. Its README says that scrambling a public model on one node only hides the data. A node runner with the same public model can find the key in about 15 seconds. Real safety needs a private model, MPC or a sealed chip.

The token adds its own risks. zkAGI's launch post warned that there is little money in the trading pool and that the token can lose value. Half of the angel share unlocked at launch, and the rest is due three months later.

zkAGI alternatives on Solana

The closest Solana alternative is Arcium, a network for computing on hidden data. Its Blackthorn product, which we covered in June 2026, also uses MPC to run private AI on NVIDIA GPUs. The two differ in focus. Arcium is part of the Solana world. zkAGI sells to large firms that want proof for their legal teams, and those firms can use it with no token at all.

zkAGI team, funding and history

zkAGI was founded by Suraj Venkat, who posts as Aten Krotos. The Virtuals launch page names him as the token's owner. The project's IQ.wiki entry lists Amesten, Samara Asset Group and Maha Capital as backers. zkAGI has also said it began with help from Swiss angel investors.

A Swiss association runs the project. The Altaica-Mesh licence names it as the ZKAGI Ecosystem Association. The website says the team works from the EU and Singapore. zkAGI dates its AI research to 2019, under earlier brand names.

Key dates:

• April 2024: launch as a "Privacy AI DePIN".
• September 2025: Oasis grant for PawPad announced.
• October 2025: a community token sale raised about $8,900 and was fully refunded, according to zkAGI's monthly report.
• September 2026: zkTerminal v2 and the ZKAGI token launch.