Nori
Private payroll for on-chain organizations.
Built on Solana. Powered by zero-knowledge proofs.
PRIYANSH PATEL / SOLO FOUNDER
The Problem
Every payment on Solana is public
Salaries, vendor deals, treasury movements. All on Solscan. Competitors see your burn rate. Recruiters target your best-paid people. In most jurisdictions, this is a compliance liability.
The Market
No turnkey private payroll exists on Solana today
Light Protocol
RAW INFRA / NO PRODUCT LAYER
How It Works
Upload. Sign once. Everyone gets paid privately.
CSV Upload
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Single Signature
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ZK Shielded Pool
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SOL · USDC · USDT
Groth16 proofs generate in-browser in ~3 seconds. The blockchain sees a single transaction from the Cloak shield-pool. No recipient addresses. No amounts.
The Design Tradeoff
Private by default.
Auditable on demand.
What's Private
- Recipient wallet addresses
- Payment amounts
- Sender-recipient relationship
- Salary distribution patterns
What's Auditable
- Auditor links (per-report)
- Per-token rollup summaries
- Compliance CSV export
- Preflight balance checks
Privacy tools on a public chain. Compliance is a first-class feature, not an afterthought.
Traction
Shipped to mainnet during the hackathon
Community response: contributors asking to get paid through Nori before onboarding has started. Built on Cloak, the only ZK shielded pool SDK shipping on Solana.
Founder
Built every layer. Solo.
Solana TurbineProtocol Knowledge
Loyal HQProduction Solana
Validator Internals97% Complete
ZK circuits, Solana program, relay, frontend, compliance system. One person, end to end. Chose ZK over MPC or TEE because the math guarantees privacy. No trust assumptions.
The privacy layer for how money moves inside on-chain organizations
Payroll is the wedge. Private vendor payments, treasury ops, grants distribution. Every payment an organization makes.
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