Our right to choose

The choice is yours.

Every day, more of your money, data, and decisions flow into systems you don't control and increasingly don't comprehend. The right to choose — who sees your data, who controls your money, and how you exist online — is the existential fight of our time, and it is growing more urgent.

Sovright builds the critical infrastructure that preserves your right to choose — the difficult, overlooked work others avoid. That mission began with Zcash. It doesn't end there.

What we build Why we changed our name
Decentralized Mining Mining Pool Redistribute hashrate, stay sovereign Network Resilience Coming soon Financial Sovereignty Coming soon

Where the mission began

Zcash — the first front

Sovright helped build the most technically mature private digital currency in the world. We're still building: today we invest in Zcash through mining infrastructure, protocol development, and ecosystem support. These are the tools shipping right now.

Decentralized Mining
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Sovright Mining Pool

Decentralized Mining

Mining pool concentration is one of the most persistent threats to proof-of-work sovereignty. When a small number of pools control the majority of hashrate, Zcash's security model depends on their good behavior. Sovright Mining Pool is designed to redistribute power — built for solo miners, small operators, and anyone who believes the network should remain decentralized.

Transparent, auditable payout logic and minimal operational fees. Decentralization is the product, not an afterthought.

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Network Resilience
Coming soon

Network Resilience

A private transaction is only as secure as the network that carries it. When the infrastructure underneath Zcash is unreliable, the guarantees Zcash makes start to erode at the edges — quietly, and without warning.

Network resilience is unglamorous work. It is also foundational work. Sovright is building here.

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Financial Sovereignty
Coming soon

Financial Sovereignty

The right to choose means nothing if you can't act on it. True financial sovereignty isn't just about privacy — it's about being in full control of your funds, on your own terms, without depending on anyone else to grant you access.

Financial access is a right, not a privilege. Sovright is building here.

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Beyond Zcash

The right to choose has many fronts

Years of work on Zcash revealed that the right to choose extends far beyond money. Private transactions lose their force if your communications are surveilled, your compute is monitored, or your AI interactions are insecure. The infrastructure to protect every layer has been overlooked — these are the fronts Sovright is moving into.

On the horizon

Privacy-preserving computation

Your money can be private while your compute is fully exposed. Sovright is exploring the infrastructure that lets sensitive workloads run without surrendering the data they touch.

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On the horizon

Secure communications

Financial privacy is hollow if the messages around it are surveilled. Resilient, private communication is a front where the right to choose is won or lost — and one too few are defending.

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On the horizon

Private AI inference

AI is concentrating data and decision-making power at a scale individuals can't control. Private inference keeps your interactions with these systems yours — not training data for someone else's model.

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…and the fronts we haven't named yet

The right to choose is eroding faster than most people realize, on fronts no one is watching. Sovright is watching.

Why This Matters

The right to choose won't defend itself

For years, crypto organized around a shared conviction: individuals should control their own money, data, and identity. That conviction is still alive, but it has been compromised. The dominant narrative now flows toward enterprise, stablecoins, and compliance-first infrastructure. These serve real needs — but they stray from the original mission.

Meanwhile, AI is concentrating data and decision-making power at a scale individuals can't control. The projects still pursuing the right to choose are fewer than ever, and more crucial than ever.

These are problems that most organizations avoid and that no one else is building for. Sovright is.

It began with money

Zcash made private money real — the most technically mature private digital currency in the world. We keep investing in it: mining, protocol, ecosystem.

It extends to data & communications

Private transactions lose their force if your communications are surveilled. The right to choose covers what you say and who can see it.

It reaches compute & AI

When your compute is monitored and your AI interactions are insecure, choice erodes silently. Protecting it is the next front — and it's wide open.

The Team

Who is building this

Sovright is a small team with deep roots in Zcash and cryptographic infrastructure. We have been here long enough to know which problems no one else will solve.

sudo_ml

Project Lead

Builder and strategist at the intersection of digital assets, privacy policy, and decentralized infrastructure. Sudo brings institutional perspective and a sharp eye for what sovereignty actually requires at scale.

@sudo_ml

Kristi Põldsam

Head of Product

Technical founder who ships sovereignty tooling that people actually use. Põldsam builds at the intersection of cryptographic infrastructure and developer experience — the systems that determine whether open-source projects survive long enough to matter. She leads product at Sovright.

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Zaki Manian

Head of Engineering

Veteran cryptographic infrastructure builder and long-time contributor to the Zcash ecosystem. Zaki brings deep experience across consensus mechanisms, validator operations, and privacy-preserving protocol design.

@zmanian