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In November 2025, Zama announced that it had acquired KKRT Labs, a research and development firm focused on scaling blockchains using zero-knowledge proofs. Zama works on fully homomorphic encryption, so the deal suggests Kakarot's technology and team were absorbed into a different roadmap, and that plans for an independent product and token may have changed.

Earlier funding was modest and well backed: a 2023 ForkLog report says Kakarot closed a pre-seed round with participation from Vitalik Buterin and StarkWare co-founders. That report does not mention a token.

None of the results we found mentions a KKRT token, a token launch or an airdrop, and none covers 2026. Without a token, there is nothing to claim and nothing to qualify for. Pages that list steps for a "Kakarot airdrop" are speculation, usually written to collect referrals.

Acquisitions of research teams are common in the Layer 2 space and often end the plan for a stand-alone token, because the acquirer folds the team into its own product. That is not a certainty, but it is the more likely reading.

It also helps to see why teams like this are acquired. Zero-knowledge engineering talent is scarce, and a company building encryption technology gains more from a team that already knows how to prove computations than from a token. For users, the outcome is that the stand-alone chain many once expected may not appear in its original form. Anyone who held assets or integrated with Kakarot should read the acquiring company's notices about the product's future.