Privacy

Your transactions are your business.

The comparison below is taken from the official Ycash shielded-transactions documentation.

Transparent

Ordinary bitcoin-style transactions

  1. Sender
  2. Amount
  3. Recipient
  • Visible: Sender address
  • Visible: Recipient address
  • Visible: Transaction amount

An ordinary bitcoin-style blockchain transaction exposes the sender address, the recipient address, and the transaction amount to the entire world.

Shielded

Protected Ycash transactions

  1. Sender
  2. Protected
  3. Recipient
  • Does not expose the sender address to anyone, not even the recipient
  • Does not expose the recipient address to anyone
  • Does not expose the amount to anyone

These properties are taken from the official Ycash shielded-transactions documentation.

Privacy shield

A transaction can be verified without being exhibited.

  1. 01Transaction

    • Sender
    • Amount
    • Recipient
  2. 02Privacy layer

  3. 03Protected transaction

    • Sender — not exposed
    • Amount — not exposed
    • Recipient — not exposed
Transaction stage

An ordinary bitcoin-style blockchain transaction exposes the sender address, the recipient address, and the transaction amount to the entire world.