Arcium (ARX) - The Encrypted Supercomputer for Confidential Compute

The Moment Your Data Is Used, It Stops Being Private#

Every system in the world shares one fatal flaw: whoever processes your data has to see it first. Traditional cryptography protects information while it sits in storage or moves across the wire, but the instant computation begins, the encryption falls away and your data is fully exposed. On a blockchain this problem is even worse, because transparency is the entire point. That openness makes it nearly impossible to handle sensitive information, and it has quietly capped what onchain applications can ever become.

What If Apps Could Compute on Data They Can Never See?#

Arcium is building the encrypted supercomputer, a decentralized network that runs computations over fully encrypted data without ever decrypting it. Powered by secure Multi-Party Computation through its Cerberus protocol, Arcium lets developers add confidentiality to any app with a few lines of code, unlocking encrypted DeFi, private AI, dark pools, and institutional use cases that were simply impossible before. It is confidential computing at scale, delivered with a trustless and verifiable framework.

What is Arcium coin?#

What does Arcium do?#

🔐 Encrypted Computation: Arcium runs arbitrary computations on fully encrypted data inside MPC eXecution Environments (MXEs), so applications can process sensitive information without anyone, including the network itself, ever seeing the raw inputs.

⚡ Cerberus MPC Protocol: Its first protocol is one of the most performant Multi-Party Computation designs in the industry, reaching speeds reported to be up to 12,000x faster than fully homomorphic encryption in some cases, which makes confidential computing fast enough for real applications.

🛠️ Developer-Friendly by Design: Developers write confidential logic in Arcis, which is just familiar, idiomatic Rust rather than a brand-new cryptography language, lowering the barrier so confidentiality can be added to an app with minimal effort.

🔗 Solana-Powered Orchestration: The network uses Solana for onchain coordination, handling node management, computation scheduling, payments, staking, and slashing fully onchain while Arx nodes do the heavy encrypted computation offchain.

🌐 Multi-Chain Architecture: Although it launched on Solana, Arcium is built to be blockchain-agnostic, with a unified orchestration layer designed to bring confidential compute to additional ecosystems over time.

🤖 Confidential AI and DeFi: From private AI model training to confidential DeFi, dark pools, sealed-bid auctions, and healthcare data collaboration, Arcium opens an entire category of applications that public blockchains could never support.

Who are behind Arcium?#

Yannik Schrade - Co-Founder and CEO

• German computer scientist and entrepreneur focused on privacy-preserving technology and cryptography.
• Previously founded shiftscreen, one of the top-selling productivity apps on the Apple App Store with hundreds of thousands of paying users across 130+ countries.
• Studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich; co-author and inventor of the Cerberus MPC protocol.
• Frequent speaker at major events including Solana Breakpoint, EthCC, and the New York Stock Exchange.

Nicolas Schapeler - Co-Founder and CTO

• Background in mathematics and computer science from TUM.
• Has worked at the intersection of cryptography and blockchains for nearly a decade, including TEEs for blockchain key material before transitioning to MPC at Arcium.

Julian Deschler - Co-Founder and CSO

• Part of the original founding team behind Elusiv, the Solana privacy protocol that became Arcium.
• Focused on strategy and growth for the confidential computing network.

Lukas Steiner - Co-Founder and COO

• Joined after meeting the founders at a hacker house, bringing operational and development experience.
• Spent two and a half years at a Zurich fintech startup reporting to the former McKinsey CFO of Switzerland, and built a GPT-3 based SaaS application that was later acquired.
• Drives operations, finance, and recruiting at Arcium.

Why This Team Inspires Confidence#

Top-Tier Backers: Arcium has raised over $15M from investors including Coinbase and Greenfield Capital, alongside an unusually strong roster of angels such as Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Monad co-founder Keone Hon, and Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz.

Deep Research Pedigree: The team spans researchers and engineers from ETH Zürich, EPFL, and TUM, with over 79 peer-reviewed publications across cryptography, mathematics, and machine learning behind the protocol.

Strategic Acquisition: Arcium acquired Inpher, a leading Web2 confidential computing company that had raised $25M from JP Morgan and Amazon and held partnerships with bodies like the DoD and the EU Commission, folding eight years of confidential AI work into the network.

Proven Track Record: The founding team previously built Elusiv on Solana, giving them a multi-year history of shipping privacy infrastructure before Arcium ever launched its mainnet.

What to Know Before You Buy Arcium#

1. Live Mainnet, Not a Whitepaper Promise

With the release of ARX, the full Arcium Mainnet is live, bringing node operation, staking, and governance online to complete the economic layer that lets the network scale.

2. Real Usage at Scale

Arcium has become the most used confidential computing network, having processed over 1.6 million confidential computations, a sign that the technology is being adopted rather than just announced.

3. Binance Alpha Debut

Binance Alpha was the first platform to feature ARX, giving the token immediate visibility and access to one of the largest crypto audiences in the world right at launch.

4. On the Coinbase Roadmap

ARX has been added to the Coinbase roadmap, a strong signal of credibility and a potential path toward broader exchange accessibility.

5. Fixed, Transparent Supply

ARX has a fixed maximum supply of 1 billion tokens, with the network powering an ecosystem of 12+ live apps including Umbra, which became Solana’s largest ICO with $155M committed.

How to buy Arcium?#

Arcium (ARX) is listed on Binance Alpha, which means you can purchase it directly on Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange known for its deep liquidity, strong security, and massive global user base. Simply fund your account and trade for ARX inside the Binance Alpha section.

Buy Arcium on Binance

Because ARX is a multi-chain token live on both BNB Smart Chain and Solana, you can also buy it on GMGN, which supports both networks. For the BSC version, move your BNB from a central exchange like Binance to your GMGN BSC wallet and swap it for Arcium. For the Solana version, move your SOL from a central exchange like Binance to your GMGN Solana wallet and swap it for Arcium instead.

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