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DarkZOR

Encrypted Orderflow. Zero MEV. Private Execution

Created on 4th December 2025

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DarkZOR

Encrypted Orderflow. Zero MEV. Private Execution

The problem DarkZOR solves

πŸŒ‘ DarkZOR β€” The FHE-Powered Private Darkpool with NEAR Intents

❗ The Problem

On-chain trading is fully transparent β€” every order reveals its price, size, and intent before execution. This makes traders vulnerable to MEV, front-running, and strategy leaks, preventing institutions, DAOs, and serious users from safely executing large trades. Because blockchains cannot compute on encrypted data, true private orderflow has never been possible.


βœ… The Solution

DarkZOR introduces the first fully private on-chain darkpool by combining:

  • Fhenix FHE for encrypted orderflow and private matching
  • NEAR Intents for automated, trustless cross-chain execution

All order data β€” price, size, direction β€” is encrypted into Fhenix

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DarkZOR’s matching engine performs comparisons while values remain encrypted, enabling a truly private orderbook with zero information leakage.

NEAR Intents acts as a secure automation layer to route, trigger, and settle trades across chains, allowing users to execute private orders without touching complex blockchain flows.

DarkZOR delivers MEV-proof, private, cross-chain trading β€” something no existing DEX architecture provides.


πŸš€ Features

πŸ” Fully Encrypted Darkpool (Fhenix FHE)

  • Orders (price, amount, direction) encrypted client-side
  • Encrypted matching using FHE comparisons (

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  • No visible orderbook β†’ no leaked strategies, no alpha extraction

πŸŒ‰ Cross-Chain Execution (NEAR Intents)

  • Intents trigger settlement and execution across chains
  • Works with Zcash, NEAR, EVM chains, and more
  • Trustless routing without exposing orderflow

πŸ›‘οΈ MEV-Proof Trading

  • No mempool exposure
  • No front-running or sandwich attacks
  • Ideal for institutions and high-volume execution

πŸŒ“ End-to-End Privacy

  • FHE protects data during submission, storage, and matching
  • Contracts never see plaintext values
  • Orderflow remains private even during cross-chain routing

🧠 Why DarkZOR Matters

DarkZOR proves that FHE + NEAR Intents can bring a new class of privacy to DeFi:

  • Fully private trading
  • Encrypted orderbooks
  • Cross-chain settlement
  • Automated execution flows

It is one of the first systems where a user can submit an intent, have it executed without revealing anything β€” not to validators, not to the mempool, not even to the smart contract itself.

Challenges we ran into

One major challenge was the availability of Zcash testnet tokens. Most faucets were offline or unreliable, which slowed early testing and required us to manually hunt for alternate sources and run partial flows with mocked data. We also struggled with inefficient and outdated documentation, especially around the Zcash testnet setup and FHE contract patterns. This led to multiple dead ends, misconfigurations, and time spent reverse-engineering examples. We overcame these hurdles by digging into community forums, reading source code directly, and building our own minimal, well-documented scripts to stabilize our development workflow.

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