This comprehensive guide provides an in-depth understanding of our brand’s identity, values, and visual elements, ensuring you can apply them accurately and consistently.

This page is organized into two main sections: ‘Brand Identity’ and ‘Visual Brand’. The ‘Brand Identity’ section explores our core values, tone, and who we are, while the ‘Visual Brand’ section offers detailed guidelines for our visual elements.

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Brand Identity

Mission

Hinkal enables the shift from fully transparent to confidential, self-custodial crypto accounts.

Our mission is to make compliant privacy the default for on-chain payments, settlement, and treasury operations - without exposing balances, counterparties, or transaction history to the public blockchain.

What we do

Hinkal is a privacy infrastructure enabling confidential transactions on existing blockchains. We build products that allow users, institutions, and developers to execute on-chain activity without leaking operational data - while maintaining compliance controls and self-custody.

Hinkal delivers privacy across three core products:

Hinkal Wallet
Hinkal Pay
Hinkal SDK

Our Products

Hinkal Wallet

Hinkal Wallet is a self-custodial wallet with two modes:

Public account for normal on-chain activity
Confidential account for private balances + confidential execution

Users can move funds between Public ↔ Confidential, then execute sends/swaps/receives from the confidential side without exposing the full wallet balance and transaction history on-chain.

Hinkal SDK

The Hinkal SDK lets developers embed confidential payment flows into wallets, dApps, or payment products.

It supports three core transaction types:

Shield (Public → Confidential): move assets from a public balance into a confidential balance
Private Transfer (Confidential → Confidential): send from one confidential balance to another without exposing sender-recipient links publicly
Unshield (Confidential → Public): move assets out to a normal public address when needed

Hinkal Pay

Hinkal Pay enables end-to-end confidential settlement.

Users can:

Receive funds into a confidential balance
Hold treasury privately
Distribute payouts without exposing counterparties or internal structure

Designed for enterprises, DAOs, funds, and payment operators.

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Hinkal was incubated at Stanford and raised $6M in 2023 from Draper Associates, SALT, NGC, NLH, Psalion, and Aquanow.

In 2024, Hinkal processed over $250M in on-chain volume, becoming one of the largest privacy infrastructure providers on EVM chains.