Beldex raises $8 million in latest round to build privacy layer for web3 and AI

Beldex has raised $8 million, bringing total funding to $36 million, to develop privacy-focused infrastructure for shielded smart contracts and encrypted AI identities.

Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles, 20 August 2026 – Beldex, a privacy-focused blockchain infrastructure provider, has closed an $8 million funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $36 million. 

The new round was backed by Sigma Capital, NTC, Nxgen, Digital Consensus Fund and EAK Ventures, and follows earlier investments from DWF Labs and Block Alpha. 

The new capital will be exclusively deployed to engineer a unified, composable infrastructure layer where developers can integrate shielded smart contracts and encrypted agent identities, without sacrificing performance or usability.

This strategic infusion fast-tracks the roadmap for Fully Homomorphic Encryption research, quantum-resistant consensus mechanisms, and the launch of an EVM-compatible sidechain designed to process sensitive data with absolute confidentiality guarantees.

Vineet Budki, Managing Director & CEO at Sigma Capital, said:

“What stood out to me about Beldex is its long-term conviction. While privacy was often treated as a niche, Beldex spent years building it into the infrastructure itself. AI agents and web3 applications demand greater privacy today, and we believe Beldex is exceptionally well positioned for the next era of Web3. That conviction is why we chose to lead this round.”

Afanddy Bin Hushni, Chairman of Beldex, said:

“The industry continues to treat privacy as a bolt-on luxury feature added only after the core architecture gets built. With this new $8 million capital raise, we’re finally able to start creating and building the vessel from the ground up to ensure that every byte of data, whether that’s an AI agent’s entire decision tree or a simple message, is encrypted by default before it ever hits the network.”

The $8 million round will enable Beldex to move from a period of foundational research into an era of aggressive ecosystem scaling and global interoperability. The newly secured funds will fuel the immediate deployment of the Beldex Extension Wallet and a suite of Software Development Kits, designed to democratize access to advanced cryptographic primitives for developers globally. By dropping the barriers to entry, Beldex aims to build natively into the fabric of thousands of emerging decentralized applications (Dapps), ensuring that confidentiality is the embedded default setting.

Dr. Alex Mok Kong Ming, COO at Beldex, said: 

“Over the past three years, Beldex has evolved from building a functional privacy ecosystem to developing a privacy infrastructure for consumers, developers and AI agents where transactions, communications, and operations are required to be autonomous and private. This additional $8 million gives us the resources to accelerate that vision. As AI becomes more and more autonomous, data exposure will become a fundamental risk. We’re building Beldex to address that challenge at the infrastructure level, combining privacy with AI execution, communication, browing identity, payments, and every online interaction.”

Complementing these technical advancements, the capital raised will catalyze a strategic expansion of Beldex’s cross-chain capabilities and the development of its quantum-resistant security mechanisms. This includes establishing secure bridges to networks such as Ethereum, Solana, and Base to ensure that privacy remains intact as assets move across ecosystems, integrating quantum-resistant messaging protocols, and refining its VRF-based consensus mechanism to protect against future computational threats. 

As the ecosystem scales, this capital empowers Beldex to transform from a niche privacy protocol into the essential foundation for a new internet where AI and decentralized finance operates within a secure and confidential, user-centric environment.

About Beldex 

Beldex is a privacy-focused decentralized ecosystem building a privacy-first internet. It combines blockchain with privacy-preserving cryptography, helping safeguard users’ data, transactions, messages, and online activities.

BChat is an application for private messaging, BelNet is for decentralized routing, and the Beldex Browser is for private web access. It also has BNS, a decentralized naming system for registering and managing blockchain-based names.

In Beldex, users can stake their tokens to participate in the network’s security, while the network runs on a masternode network and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus. The network utilizes the private digital currency, BDX, as a means of powering the ecosystem.

The project also remains active in developing and investigating new technologies in the realm of blockchain, like zero-knowledge systems, quantum-safe cryptography, confidential assets, privacy-first EVM, and other advanced privacy-enhancing solutions, aiming to create a more secure and user-controlled digital environment.

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