Bermuda
Making privacy the default layer of web3.
Created on 18th October 2025
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Bermuda
Making privacy the default layer of web3.
The problem Bermuda solves
Bermuda Overview
Bermuda is a modular, multi-asset privacy layer built for the Ethereum ecosystem. It is designed to make privacy seamless, compliant, and composable, without sacrificing compatibility or user experience. As a neutral layer of infrastructure, Bermuda enables wallets, middleware, and decentralized applications to adopt privacy natively while retaining full control over key management, encrypted state, and RPC providers. By making privacy an interoperable standard rather than an afterthought, Bermuda bridges the gap between trustless systems and truly user-friendly blockchain experiences.
Why Privacy Matters
Ethereum’s radical transparency has enabled unprecedented trustless innovation but at a significant human cost. Every transaction, message, and strategy remains permanently public, creating friction for users, institutions, and enterprises. Without privacy, people trade safety and usability for exposure, and organizations cannot operate when competitors can observe their on-chain activities.
Bermuda addresses this imbalance by embedding privacy as a spectrum within the Ethereum stack, offering flexible, human-centric confidentiality without breaking compatibility or compliance.
Modular by Design
Bermuda’s architecture is modular and extensible, built around a core privacy layer enhanced by optional modules and adapters such as:
• Compliance modules: enabling zkKYC, Proof of Innocence (POI), and viewing keys.
• Smart Account modules: aligning privacy with ERC-4337 smart account capabilities.
• Dapp Adapters and Stealth Addresses: allowing seamless integration across DeFi, payments, and identity use cases.
• Custom modules: supporting evolving regulatory and market needs.
This structure allows developers to compose privacy experiences tailored to different user groups, jurisdictions, and compliance contexts, without reinventing foundational infrastructure.
Neutral and Future-Proof Infrastructure
Bermuda sits as privacy middleware, not a product or competitor. It complements rather than replaces existing chains or wallets. This neutrality ensures broad collaboration across the ecosystem while maintaining alignment with Ethereum’s long-term roadmap, especially the convergence of smart accounts, intent-based systems, and modular privacy layers. With 100% EVM compatibility, Bermuda integrates effortlessly into existing contracts, enabling adoption without disruption.
Privacy by Design: Configurable and Scalable
Bermuda redefines privacy as a spectrum, not a switch. Different on-chain actions require different depths of confidentiality, from fully unlinkable payments to identity-shielded DAO votes and auditable DeFi interactions.
This portfolio-style approach allows builders to configure privacy based on context, balancing usability, performance, and compliance. Lightweight implementations can serve high-throughput consumer apps, while deeper modules deliver end-to-end privacy for institutions or advanced DeFi use cases.
By treating privacy as a composable design choice rather than an all-or-nothing tradeoff, Bermuda enables broad adoption without UX friction and ensures a sustainable path toward fully private, compliant, and scalable decentralized systems.
Link to the GitHub Repo of your project
github.com/bermudabay
Live URL of your project
bermudabay.xyz
What is your product’s unique value proposition?
Bermuda sits as privacy middleware, not a product or competitor. It complements rather than replaces existing chains or wallets. This neutrality ensures broad collaboration across the ecosystem while maintaining alignment with Ethereum’s long-term roadmap, especially the convergence of smart accounts, intent-based systems, and modular privacy layers. With 100% EVM compatibility, Bermuda integrates effortlessly into existing contracts, enabling adoption without disruption.
Who is your target customer?
Bermuda enables wallets, middleware, and decentralized applications to adopt privacy natively while retaining full control over key management, encrypted state, and RPC providers. By making privacy an interoperable standard rather than an afterthought, Bermuda bridges the gap between trustless systems and truly user-friendly blockchain experiences.
Who are your closest competitors and how are you different?
Bermuda operates in the emerging category of modular privacy infrastructure for Ethereum, alongside protocols like Hinkal.
The protocol is neutral middleware, not a wallet or app, enabling privacy natively across any ecosystem layer.
Deep Composability:
SDKs and adapters integrate seamlessly with existing DeFi protocols, smart accounts, and wallets
Partner-Centric Distribution:
Grows through integrations with major wallets and dapps, letting partners own UX while Bermuda powers privacy behind the scenes.
What is your distribution strategy and why?
Bermuda follows a bottom-up distribution model, embedding privacy directly into the tools users already trust, wallets, dapps, and middleware, rather than competing with them.
By offering a plug-and-play SDK and modular adapters, Bermuda becomes an invisible layer that powers privacy by default across Web3 infrastructure. This approach mirrors how RPCs and relayers scaled: through deep integrations, not direct user acquisition.
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