# Executive Summary {% hint style="info" %} ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This project is NOT available to citizens or residents of the United States of America or the People's Republic of China. By participating in this project, you confirm that you are not a citizen or resident of these jurisdictions. {% endhint %} The challenge with existing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is speed. Every production scheme today — Zama's TFHE, Fhenix, Inco — requires a time-consuming refresh process called bootstrapping that creates a structural bottleneck. When the target is Solana's 400ms block time, traditional FHE is too slow to compete. AURA FHE bridges this gap, bringing high-speed, confidential compute to the Solana Virtual Machine. Our scheme abandons lattice-based FHE entirely. AURA FHE uses precomputed lookup tables (LUT-FHE) over a Multivariate Quadratic structure — proven NP-hard, post-quantum secure, and structurally bootstrap-free. The result is FHE that operates at chain speed, validated by 12 years of cryptographic R\&D, protected by 9 patents, and shipping as production code today. Private by default. Verifiable by design. AURA SDK v5 is live. AuraPoly — a sealed-bid prediction market on AURA's encrypted compute layer — is clearing real flow on Solana. FHE-based AI inference is operational for any privacy-critical workload where confidentiality outweighs latency. AURA FHE is one protocol expressed across five aligned components, each forcing demand into the next: The SDK — three-line integration that lets any developer add encryption to their app The AURA Token — the unit of account for every encrypted computation on the network The Aura Wallet — the consumer surface for encrypted balances, swaps, and transfers The Coprocessor & Mining Protocol — the distributed compute substrate executing the FHE work The Global Ecosystem — extension into real-world enterprise compute and confidential AI inference The window is now. Zama's Q1 2026 Shielded report (released April 30) and their public 2026 litepaper both confirm Solana integration is targeted for H2 2026 — compressed from earlier “2027” guidance. The race to define Solana's encryption layer is no longer abstract; it is happening over the next two quarters. AURA FHE has the SDK in production, AuraPoly clearing flow, and TGE coordinated with Q3 2026 — the exact window in which this category locks in. The raise: $25M Pre-Series A (SAFE with token warrant, $1M minimum) to win the Solana encryption layer before the category locks in. First close $10M, target Q2 2026. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.afhe.io/whitepaper/readme.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.