Open infrastructure.
Nothing mandatory.

Zivana exposes five primitives at the protocol level. Every application built on Zivana interacts with these primitives. Applications choose which ones to use.

Three-layer stack

Cardano MainneteUTxO distribution, $ZVN token, finality, Mithril state proofs. Final state anchoring for all protocol events.
Midnight NetworkShielded covenant state storage, ZK proof generation for distribution correctness, selective disclosure for compliance.
Hyperledger IdentusDID issuance and resolution anchored on Cardano, verifiable credential issuance, W3C DID spec compliance.

Five core primitives

Identity

ZVN.Identity

DID-anchored credentials with jurisdiction tags and KYC status, anchored on Cardano through Hyperledger Identus. Works without a bank account or smartphone.

Trust Score

ZVN.Trust

Composable on-chain trust graph owned by the holder. Attestation events accumulate across every application on the protocol and travel with the participant.

Covenant

ZVN.Covenant

Shielded, self-enforcing economic agreements on Midnight. Terms stay private. Execution is verifiable. No intermediary required at any step.

Distribution

ZVN.Distribution

Atomic proportional value distribution on Cardano, triggered by oracle-attested events. Four outputs. One Aiken validator. No gaps and no human intervention.

Intelligence

ZVN.Intelligence

AI market benchmarking, covenant viability scoring, anomaly detection, and multilingual interfaces in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Pidgin. Built on ASI Cloud and Fetch.ai.

Three regenerative constraints

Protocol invariants written into the governance contract itself. No governance vote, regardless of majority, can override them.

01

Surplus stays local

Protocol fees cannot exceed defined ceilings. The majority of value generated through any covenant must remain with the economic actors who generated it.

02

Trust belongs to the holder

Every trust event belongs to the participant's DID-anchored identity, not to any application. Trust is portable across every Zivana application.

03

Entry is path-independent

The protocol must function without requiring a bank account, a registered business, a smartphone, or prior blockchain experience.