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 Send & 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 Send

Hinkal Send lets users connect any existing wallet and execute confidential payments.

It supports:

Single or multi-recipient payouts in one transfer flow - built for payroll, vendor payments, contributor distributions, and partner settlements.
Scheduled transfers with randomized execution - users define a time window, and the transaction is executed at a random point within that window.

This reduces predictable timing patterns and makes time-based transaction analysis more difficult.

Confidential routing architecture - the transaction is first sent to the Hinkal smart contract, and from there to the recipient.

Because the on-chain transfer originates from the Hinkal contract rather than directly from the sender’s wallet, direct sender → recipient linkage is removed at the base layer.

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.