Shield is live.
Built on @AleoHQ by @ProvableHQ, Shield is a self-custodial wallet for holding and moving crypto without exposing balances, counterparties, or transaction details by default.
What’s yours is yours.
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When you have the cryptography to hide everything, the obvious move is to hide everything. @ShieldFi deliberately did not.
Identities and strategies stay confidential while prices and reserves stay verifiable by anyone. A market no one can see is not a market.
When we started building @ShieldFi, one of the first questions was how much should be confidential.
The easy answer was everything. The cryptography exists afterall. We chose not to use it that way.
The previous generation of privacy protocols treated total opacity as the
Shield extension v1.31.0 is live 🛡️
▸ Swap on Shield Swap directly from your wallet
▸ Redesigned dApp transaction, permissions, and sign message screens
▸ Accepted private transactions now apply to your balance immediately
▸ Portfolio change now reflects 24h price movement
On a public chain, anyone who pays you can look up your entire financial history, from your current balance to every counterparty you have ever transacted with.
Getting paid shouldn't mean handing over your books. Shield was built so a transaction stays between the people making
A trading firm was confident their onchain activity could not be linked, since they used fresh addresses across different networks.
It took a few hours of correlating trade sizes with timing to reconstruct a large part of their quarter. @ShieldFi was built so that kind of
Early on, we met with a trading firm to learn how they traded onchain. They used fresh addresses across different networks and believed their activity could not be linked.
So we tested it. We indexed recent blocks across those networks and cross-correlated trades by size, gas