Aroko
Confidential payouts · Global · 2026
Pay people on-chain without publishing what you paid them.
Pay fifty people on a public chain and you’ve published fifty salaries. Aroko sends stablecoin payouts on Ethereum with the amount encrypted, and gives finance a receipt file for every payment. It’s in early access.
What the lab did
Four jobs.
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Infrastructure
Confidential-payment contracts on open standards (ERC-7984, Zama FHE), deployed and tested on a test network before anyone was asked to trust them. - 02
R&D
We moved it from a token project to a payouts product once it was clear the buyer is a finance team, not a trader. - 03
User experience
“Registered mail for money.” One metaphor, a sample receipt on the first screen, and no cryptography vocabulary. - 04
Distribution
An early-access programme and a comparison page, so a finance lead can see what switching looks like before any call.
What it moved
People, culture, money.
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Social
Contractors and staff get paid without their income becoming public record.
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Cultural
Aroko is Yoruba for a message sent as an object. The brand is built on that.
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Economic
On-chain payroll becomes usable for teams that couldn’t accept public amounts.
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