Ligero是一家致力于数据隐私和安全性零知识证明（ZKP）技术的加密初创公司，已在种子资金回合中筹集了400万美元。

Galaxy Ventures和1KX共同领导的回合，来自富兰克林·邓普顿（Franklin Templeton），新生，阿阴茎，机器人风险投资，数字货币集团和ZKV

Crypto startup Ligero, which is focused on zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology for data privacy and security, announced Wednesday that it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round.

Crypto Startup Ligero专注于数据隐私和安全性的零知识证明技术（ZKP）技术，他周三宣布已在种子资金融资中筹集了400万美元。

Galaxy Ventures and 1kx jointly led the round, which also saw participation from Franklin Templeton, Nascent, Anagram, Robot Ventures, Digital Currency Group and ZKV, Ligero said. The firm began raising for the round in March and closed in July, but the timing of the announcement coincides with the launch of its core product, Ligetron, co-founder Matt DiBiase told The Block.

Ligero说，Galaxy Ventures和1KX共同领导了这一赛季，这也看到了富兰克林·邓普顿（Franklin Templeton），新生，阿阴系格拉姆（Anagram），机器人风险投资公司，数字货币集团和ZKV的参与。联合创始人马特·迪比亚斯（Matt Dibiase）告诉街区，该公司于3月开始筹集并于7月关闭，但宣布的时机与其核心产品的推出。

The seed round was structured as a simple agreement for future equity (SAFE) with token warrants, raised at a $20 million valuation cap, DiBiase said. There are “no plans for a token at the moment,” he added.

Dibiase说，种子轮的结构是与代币认股权证的未来股权（安全）的简单协议，以2000万美元的估值上限提出。他补充说，“目前没有一个令牌的计划”。

As part of the deal, Wei Dai, research partner at 1kx, has joined Ligero’s board of directors, DiBiase said.

Dibiase说，作为交易的一部分，1KX的研究合作伙伴Wei Dai加入了利格罗董事会。

With this round, Ligero has raised a total of $5.15 million, including a $1.15 million round in 2019.

在这一轮比赛中，Ligero总共筹集了515万美元，其中包括2019年的115万美元回合。

What is Ligero?

什么是利格洛？

Founded in 2018, Ligero builds tools to simplify ZKP development, deployment and scaling without compromising security or compliance. Its core product, Ligetron, is a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) designed for high-speed performance across both browsers and advanced hardware.

Ligero成立于2018年，构建了简化ZKP开发，部署和扩展的工具，而不会损害安全性或合规性。它的核心产品Ligetron是一款零知识虚拟机（ZKVM），旨在在浏览器和高级硬件上进行高速性能。

Ligetron “is for ZK what DeepSeek is for LLMs [large language models],” Ligero claimed. Ligetron benchmark tests show Ligetron achieving 66× faster LLM inference and 1,024× better memory efficiency than competitors, according to Ligero.

Ligero声称，Ligetron“是针对ZK的LLM [大型语言模型]的DeepSeek。”利格罗（Ligero）称，Ligetron基准测试显示，Ligetron的LLM推断速度更快，比竞争对手更快地推断LLM推理和1,024倍的记忆效率。

For ZK rollups and validiums, Ligetron can handle 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) on a single NVIDIA L40S GPU while using less than 2 GB of CPU RAM, with linear scaling across multiple GPUs, Ligero said. Even a browser-based implementation can achieve around 100 TPS, it added, pointing to potential applications in mobile-based ZK rollups.

Ligero说，对于ZK汇总和有效量，Ligetron可以在单个NVIDIA L40S GPU上每秒处理1,000笔交易，同时使用少于2 GB的CPU RAM，并在多个GPU上进行线性缩放。它补充说，即使是基于浏览器的实现也可以实现约100 TP，这指出了基于移动的ZK汇总中的潜在应用。

The development of Ligetron took about seven years. After raising its first round in 2019, Ligero built a dark pool auction platform using multiparty computation (MPC), co-founder, CEO and CTO Muthu Venkitasubramaniam told The Block.

Ligetron的发展花费了大约七年。在2019年举行了第一轮比赛后，Ligero使用多方计算（MPC），联合创始人，首席执行官和CTO Muthu Muthu Venkitasubramaniam建立了一个深色池拍卖平台。

In 2020, Ligero received a four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) program to improve ZKP. This research became the foundation of Ligero’s current technology, leading to its focus on ZK innovation, Venkitasubramaniam said.

2020年，Ligero获得了国防高级研究项目局（DARPA）的四年赠款，并获得了加密验证和评估（SIEVE）计划的确保信息，以改善ZKP。 Venkitasubramaniam说，这项研究成为Ligero当前技术的基础，导致其专注于ZK创新。

“The next-gen DeFi, gaming, ML [machine learning] applications, and real-world asset tokenization will crucially depend on scalable privacy,” according to Venkitasubramaniam. “Existing privacy-focused chains are simply too cumbersome for practical use and lack composability. Existing ZK-SNARKs powering L2 technology are not suited for true privacy applications given that they can’t run client-side and require significant hardware on the server side. By contrast, Ligetron is the first and only memory-efficient ZKVM that can be deployed on any device — from a Raspberry Pi to an NVIDIA H100 — delivering consistent and scalable performance.”

Venkitasubramaniam表示：“下一代DEFI，游戏，ML [机器学习]应用和现实世界中的标记将至关重要地取决于可扩展的隐私。” “现有的以隐私为重点的连锁店对于实际使用而变得太麻烦了，缺乏合成性。鉴于它们无法运行客户端并且需要在服务器端需要重要的硬件，因此现有的ZK-SNARKS为L2技术提供动力L2技术不适合真正的隐私应用程序。相比之下，Ligetron是可以在任何设备上部署在任何设备上的第一个也是唯一的内存效率ZKVM（从Raspberry Pi到NVIDIA H100）提供一致且可扩展的性能。”

Ligero’s closest competitors are Aztec Noir and Polygon Miden, Venkitasubramaniam said. Ligero’s ZK tools are designed to secure scalable data privacy across industries, from DeFi and global finance to gaming and real-world asset tokenization, by integrating privacy into both on-chain and off-chain workflows, according to the firm.

Venkitasubramaniam说，Ligero最接近的竞争对手是AZTEC Noir和Polygon Miden。该公司称，Ligero的ZK工具旨在通过将隐私集成到链上和链链工作流程中，从而确保从DEFI和全球财务到游戏和现实资产令牌化的行业可扩展数据隐私。

Ligero plans to expand its team by adding three to four roles in engineering and business development to support future growth, DiBiase said.

Dibiase说，Ligero计划通过在工程和业务发展中增加三到四个角色来扩大其团队，以支持未来的增长。