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Privacy coins

Protocols whose ledgers obscure sender, receiver, amount, or all three. Each has different threat-model trade-offs and very different liquidity profiles on the swap market.

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What to look for

Use the table below as a starting point. The same rules apply across the site: every claim is dated, sources are linked from each service page, and a service with tiered KYC is no-KYC only up to a threshold that the operator can change at any time. See methodology for how we evaluate entries.

Services (5)

Name KYC Status Jurisdiction Last verified
Decred no KYC active protocol — independent open source
Firo no KYC active protocol — independent open source
Monero no KYC active protocol — independent open source
Pirate Chain no KYC active protocol — independent open source
Zcash no KYC active protocol — Electric Coin Company and Zcash Foundation