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Irreducible

Irreducible is a cryptography company accelerating the zero-knowledge (ZK) revolution by turning advanced proof systems into cost-efficient, production infrastructure. The company invented and leads Binius, a state-of-the-art zero-knowledge SNARK built on towers of binary fields that natively handles bitwise operations to deliver order-of-magnitude speedups over prime-field systems on ordinary CPUs, GPUs, mobile devices, and custom FPGA hardware. Irreducible operates its own FPGA-based proof-generation service and publishes Binius as open-source Rust crates. Target applications include self-sovereign identity, on-chain privacy, content provenance for AI-generated media, and verifiable supercomputing. Irreducible was backed by a Series A co-led by Paradigm and Bain Capital Crypto. This profile was seeded as a Paradigm portfolio lead and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline; the company exposes an open-source developer surface (crates + docs) rather than a public REST API.

Irreducible is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto Infrastructure, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Cryptography, and SNARK.

Irreducible’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 5 more developer resources.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyCrypto InfrastructureZero-Knowledge ProofsCryptographySNARKBlockchainPrivacyOpen-SourceRust

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Irreducible Domain Security

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Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

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WellKnown

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Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: irreducible
name: Irreducible
description: Irreducible is a cryptography company accelerating the zero-knowledge (ZK) revolution by turning advanced proof
  systems into cost-efficient, production infrastructure. The company invented and leads Binius, a state-of-the-art zero-knowledge
  SNARK built on towers of binary fields that natively handles bitwise operations to deliver order-of-magnitude speedups over
  prime-field systems on ordinary CPUs, GPUs, mobile devices, and custom FPGA hardware. Irreducible operates its own FPGA-based
  proof-generation service and publishes Binius as open-source Rust crates. Target applications include self-sovereign identity,
  on-chain privacy, content provenance for AI-generated media, and verifiable supercomputing. Irreducible was backed by a
  Series A co-led by Paradigm and Bain Capital Crypto. This profile was seeded as a Paradigm portfolio lead and enriched by
  the API Evangelist pipeline; the company exposes an open-source developer surface (crates + docs) rather than a public REST
  API.
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://framerusercontent.com/assets/LoAVgUcWjtrfzXZxXx4AZQSWMys.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/irreducible/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- paradigm
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto Infrastructure
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Cryptography
- SNARK
- Blockchain
- Privacy
- Open-Source
- Rust
tags_raw:
- Company
- Crypto Infrastructure
- Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Cryptography
- SNARK
- Blockchain
- Privacy
- Open Source
- Rust
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.irreducible.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.binius.xyz
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.irreducible.com/posts
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/IrreducibleOSS
- type: Packages
  url: packages/irreducible-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/irreducible-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/irreducible-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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