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Privacy feature

Stealth addresses

Hand your address to anyone, or post it anywhere. It never appears on the blockchain: every payment to you lands at a new one-time address that only your wallet can recognize.

Automatic. Every payment you receive uses a fresh one-time address. There is nothing to set up.

One address, unrelated paymentsExample values
Your addressShared with three peopleNever written to the blockchain
Payment 1a3f9c1d2…7be20d
Payment 25c0e88b4…d41a6f
Payment 3e87b2a90…0f3c51

Three payments to the same address land at three one-time addresses that look completely unrelated. Only your wallet can tell they're yours.

How it works

When someone pays you, their wallet mixes your public address with a random number made just for this payment. The result is a one-time address that belongs to you but can't be connected to your address by anyone else.

Your wallet checks each new transaction with your private view key and picks out the ones meant for you. Only your private spend key can spend them.

View tags make scanning faster

Every output carries a one-byte view tag. Your wallet checks the tag first and skips most outputs that aren't yours without doing the full calculation. Syncing is quicker, and the tag reveals nothing about who you are.

As many addresses as you like

One wallet can have any number of subaddresses. Make one for each customer, friend or donation page under Receive > Create new address. They all pay into the same wallet, yet nobody can tell they belong together, not even the people you gave them to.

Integrated addresses

An integrated address is your address with a short payment ID inside, for services that tell payments apart that way. Most people never need one. Accepting payments »

What the blockchain showsFor each payment
  • Your addressNever recorded
  • One-time addressVisible, unlinkable
  • Which wallet owns itHidden
  • Other payments to youHidden

One part of the whole

Stealth addresses hide who received a payment. Ring signatures hide who sent it and RingCT hides how much moved.