Our right to choose

The choice is yours.

Every day, more of your money, data, and decisions flow into systems you don't control and increasingly don't comprehend. The right to choose — who sees your data, who controls your money, and how you exist online — is the existential fight of our time, and it is growing more urgent.

Sovright builds the critical infrastructure that preserves your right to choose — the difficult, overlooked work others avoid. That mission began with Zcash. It doesn't end there.

What we build Why we changed our name
Decentralized Mining Mining Pool Redistribute hashrate, stay sovereign Network Resilience Sovright Relay Equal-latency block relay for every pool Financial Sovereignty Argos Recover lost ZecWallet Lite funds

Where the mission began

Zcash — the first front

Sovright helped build the most technically mature private digital currency in the world. We're still building: today we invest in Zcash through mining infrastructure, protocol development, and ecosystem support. These are the tools shipping right now.

Decentralized Mining
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Sovright Mining Pool

Decentralized Mining

Mining pool concentration is one of the most persistent threats to proof-of-work sovereignty. When a small number of pools control the majority of hashrate, Zcash's security model depends on their good behavior. Sovright Mining Pool is designed to redistribute power — built for solo miners, small operators, and anyone who believes the network should remain decentralized.

Transparent, auditable payout logic and minimal operational fees. Decentralization is the product, not an afterthought.

mining.sovright.com Miner? Talk to us
Network Resilience
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Sovright Relay

Block Relay Network

On any proof-of-work network, the pools that hear about new blocks first win more rewards — and that speed has never come cheaply, which has quietly favored the largest pools. The Sovright Relay closes that gap: a public, low-latency relay network that delivers new Zcash blocks to every pool with the same low latency, regardless of size or budget.

Neutral infrastructure, run independently of any pool or miner. It forwards blocks faster without ever changing them, introduces no new protocol or consensus changes, and is open source — following the direction Bitcoin took with FIBRE.

  • Relay nodes across Asia, Europe, and the US
  • HMAC-authenticated UDP fast-path with forward-error correction
  • No protocol changes — add or remove in minutes
relay.sovright.com Read the launch post
Financial Sovereignty
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Argos

ZEC Recovery

ZecWallet Lite is no longer maintained, and thousands of Zcash users have seeds tied to funds they can no longer access through normal means. Argos is a local-first desktop recovery workspace: paste your 24-word seed, let it scan the blockchain, and sweep your funds to a modern Unified Address.

No cloud. No accounts. Seed derivation, scanning, and signing all happen on your machine. Argos is free, open source, and always will be.

  • Transparent, Sapling, and Orchard recovery
  • Resumable — pause and pick up mid-scan
  • macOS, Windows, and Linux
argos.sovright.com Source on GitHub

Beyond Zcash

The right to choose has many fronts

Years of work on Zcash revealed that the right to choose extends far beyond money. Private transactions lose their force if your communications are surveilled, your compute is monitored, or your AI interactions are insecure. The infrastructure to protect every layer has been overlooked — these are the fronts Sovright is moving into.

On the horizon

Privacy-preserving computation

Your money can be private while your compute is fully exposed. Sovright is exploring the infrastructure that lets sensitive workloads run without surrendering the data they touch.

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On the horizon

Secure communications

Financial privacy is hollow if the messages around it are surveilled. Resilient, private communication is a front where the right to choose is won or lost — and one too few are defending.

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On the horizon

Private AI inference

AI is concentrating data and decision-making power at a scale individuals can't control. Private inference keeps your interactions with these systems yours — not training data for someone else's model.

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…and the fronts we haven't named yet

The right to choose is eroding faster than most people realize, on fronts no one is watching. Sovright is watching.

Why This Matters

The right to choose won't defend itself

For years, crypto organized around a shared conviction: individuals should control their own money, data, and identity. That conviction is still alive, but it has been compromised. The dominant narrative now flows toward enterprise, stablecoins, and compliance-first infrastructure. These serve real needs — but they stray from the original mission.

Meanwhile, AI is concentrating data and decision-making power at a scale individuals can't control. The projects still pursuing the right to choose are fewer than ever, and more crucial than ever.

These are problems that most organizations avoid and that no one else is building for. Sovright is.

It began with money

Zcash made private money real — the most technically mature private digital currency in the world. We keep investing in it: mining, protocol, ecosystem.

It extends to data & communications

Private transactions lose their force if your communications are surveilled. The right to choose covers what you say and who can see it.

It reaches compute & AI

When your compute is monitored and your AI interactions are insecure, choice erodes silently. Protecting it is the next front — and it's wide open.

The Team

Who is building this

Sovright is a small team with deep roots in Zcash and cryptographic infrastructure. We have been here long enough to know which problems no one else will solve.

sudo_ml

Project Lead

Builder and strategist at the intersection of digital assets, privacy policy, and decentralized infrastructure. Sudo brings institutional perspective and a sharp eye for what sovereignty actually requires at scale.

@sudo_ml

Kristi Põldsam

Head of Product

Technical founder who ships sovereignty tooling that people actually use. Põldsam builds at the intersection of cryptographic infrastructure and developer experience — the systems that determine whether open-source projects survive long enough to matter. She leads product at Sovright.

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Zaki Manian

Head of Engineering

Veteran cryptographic infrastructure builder and long-time contributor to the Zcash ecosystem. Zaki brings deep experience across consensus mechanisms, validator operations, and privacy-preserving protocol design.

@zmanian