The invisible economy
deserves visible trust.

Hundreds of millions of people across Africa participate in informal economic activity, producing real value and building real reputations, yet remain invisible to formal capital markets. The barrier is not productivity. It is legibility.

Zivana is the infrastructure that makes economic trust visible, portable, and verifiable across boundaries, without requiring anyone to surrender ownership of that trust to any platform. Trust, once earned, should travel with the person who earned it.

Built in Lagos. Open to the world.

NexTrium Global Innovations Ltd

Legal entity

Incorporated in Nigeria under the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Next Trend Labs

Product and engineering

The engineering and product organisation behind Zivana Protocol and Sovela.

Zivana Labs

Protocol organisation

github.com/zivana-labs — eleven open repositories, public from day one.

Four phases. Hard gates between each.

Phase 0Active
Foundation Verification8 to 10 weeks

Prove every stack component works before any protocol logic is built on top. Environment verification across Cardano, Midnight, Identus, and the oracle infrastructure.

Phase 1Upcoming
Core Primitive Implementation12 to 16 weeks

Implement all five primitives on Cardano preprod and Midnight devnet. Deploy $ZVN on testnet. Execute a complete end-to-end cycle with zero human intervention.

Phase 2Upcoming
SDK and Developer Interface10 to 14 weeks

Make the protocol buildable by developers outside the core team. TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python SDKs. Schema Registry. Governance contracts. External developer validation.

Phase 3Upcoming
Sovela Migration and Mainnet10 to 14 weeks

Migrate Sovela to run on Zivana Protocol. External security audit. $ZVN mainnet launch. Community distribution. First real covenant on mainnet is the protocol genesis event.