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Fermah

Fermah is a crypto infrastructure company building 'Protocol Agency' — an autonomous execution layer that lets smart contracts observe, decide, and act without human or centralized-server intervention. Its core engine, Fermah Kernel, powers two live products: Fermah Froben, a universal ZK proof marketplace matching proof requests to GPU compute suppliers across any proof system or chain, and Flashcast Social, a prediction market platform that creates and resolves markets instantly from natural-language questions. Fermah serves ZK protocol teams and chains (e.g. ZKsync, Scroll, Gateway) as well as developers needing trustless off-chain computation.

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Fermah is a venture-backed crypto infrastructure company (backed by a16z CSX, Lemniscap, and other Tier-1 VCs) founded by Dr. Vanishree Rao, a cryptographer with a PhD from UCLA, with Patricio Napoli serving as CTO. The company's stated mission is to remove the last human bottleneck in crypto protocols by giving smart contracts 'agency' — the ability to observe on-chain events, execute conditional logic in trustless sandboxed environments, and publish cryptographically verified results on-chain without human triggers, centralized servers, or keeper bots. Its core technology, Fermah Kernel, is a workflow execution engine composed of typed nodes that can be assembled by AI agents and executed deterministically, with every result attested on-chain. On top of Kernel, Fermah operates Fermah Froben, a universal ZK proof market (live on Ethereum mainnet) that has delivered over 2M proofs with a 99.5% success rate by orchestrating distributed GPU operator networks for any proof system or chain, and Flashcast Social, a private-beta prediction market product that generates and resolves markets from tweeted questions in seconds. Fermah's clients and integration partners include ZKsync, Scroll, Gateway, Boundless, LayerEdge, Hylé, Aligned Layer, zkVerify, Functor, and Interstate, positioning the company as infrastructure for ZK proving and autonomous on-chain processes.

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2024

$10M

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