Zama Builder Story #2 - The Builder Behind 12+ Confidential Apps

Builder Stories profiles Chris Wilder, a Ghana-based self-taught Solidity developer and repeat Zama Developer Program winner who has built more than 12 confidential applications on the Zama Protocol after previously working as a community manager and shipping over 30 EVM applications. Drawn to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) for its ability to compute on encrypted data while limiting decryption to authorized users, he rebuilt his personal project, Legacy Vault, as a confidential digital inheritance system after rejecting trusted execution environments over security concerns. Legacy Vault uses encrypted, time-locked access controls to help crypto holders pass wallets, keys, documents, and assets to beneficiaries without exposing them prematurely or relying on custodians. Wilder has also developed encrypted voting, non-custodial payments through zPayy, wallet integrations and extensions, a protocol analytics dashboard, and developer education resources, emphasizing that builders should focus on practical user problems and integrate confidentiality into familiar tools. He advises developers to begin with small projects, rely on documentation, seek help when blocked, and persist through slow early progress, while noting that listed community projects remain unaudited and may carry risks.

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