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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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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 |