Institutional Use Cases

Hinkal’s infrastructure is designed to solve the transparency risks inherent in public blockchain settlement. By providing a private execution layer, Hinkal allows diverse institutional actors to protect their business intelligence and manage risk.

1. OTC Desks & Institutional Liquidity Providers

Public settlement rails currently expose trade flows and counterparty relationships, allowing observers to infer positions and exploit timing. Hinkal enables:

• Confidential Trade Settlement: Settles sensitive trades privately so that the counterparty wallet and transaction values are hidden from public view.

• Reduced Signaling Risk: Prevents market observers from using on-chain data to front-run or time trades against the desk.

• Private Inventory Management: Allows for the movement of assets between internal accounts without revealing inventory levels or liquidity positions.

2. Payment Service Providers (PSPs) & Merchants

For PSPs, public transparency leads to revenue leakage and the exposure of merchant-client relationships. Hinkal provides:

• Shielded Aggregate Flows: Protects Gross Settlement Volume (GSV) and merchant revenue data from being scraped by competitors.

• Confidential Merchant Payouts: Facilitates payouts to merchants where the sender (PSP), recipient, and amount remain private on-chain.

• Zero-Disruption Integration: Operates as a settlement layer beneath existing PSP dashboards, maintaining the current system of record while adding privacy guarantees.