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📨 New wallet attribute: 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀

You wouldn't publish your bank statements online for all to see.
Yet crypto payments today reveal just as much.

Walletbeat now checks if wallets integrate privacy tech for token transfers by default.

Raising the bar.

The only wallets that implement such tech today call themselves "privacy wallets".

But as @vitalik.eth states, you shouldn't have to download a "privacy wallet" to get privacy.

Privacy is a human right.
Privacy is normal.
Privacy should be the default everywhere.

Contributor @ /walletbeat.

Censorship resistance requires privacy.

"Privacy wallets" are not a thing. They are just wallets.

It is the other wallets that are "non-private wallets".

Would you walk around with one of these?

The lack of onchain privacy has hampered mainstream adoption, as it's below even web2 levels.

It is also a physical safety issue. If paying a merchant reveals your balance to them while you're in their store, you're exposing yourself to the perfect setup to get wrench-attacked.

Walletbeat therefore checks not just that you can transfer tokens privately, but that 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁.
As it is for non-crypto payments. And as it ought to be.

Walletbeat currently only looks at ERC-5564 stealth address support.

Future iterations will consider other privacy tech, but here's how the ERC-5564 checks work: