Zivana Blog

Research, updates,
and protocol notes.

Product Update

Zivana Phase 0: Six Validations, One Question: Does This Stack Actually Work for Africa?

We spent months proving that Cardano, Midnight, and Fetch.ai can deliver the specific primitives a trust infrastructure protocol for the African informal economy actually needs: identity that travels, privacy that protects, attestation that is verifiable, and settlement that reaches people where they are. This is what we found.

Abdulbasit Abdulrahman·July 21, 2026
Product Update

Proof of Identity: What It Took to Put a Decentralized Credential on Cardano

Published by NexTrium Global Innovations, Zivana Protocol Engineering

Abdulbasit Abdulrahman·July 4, 2026
Product Update

What We Learned Validating Midnight Before Writing Zivana Protocol Logic

Before writing a single line of Covenant's protocol logic, we put Midnight through its own test: prove a private trust score clears a threshold without ever revealing the score. Here's what worked, what didn't come easy, and why we validate every piece of Zivana's stack in isolation before it has to carry real protocol weight.

Abdulbasit Abdulrahman·June 25, 2026