REDACTED
The Privacy Coin for a Watched World
DOCUMENT CLASS: TECHNICAL WHITEPAPER
CLEARANCE LEVEL: PUBLIC
VERSION: 1.0.0
STATUS: DECLASSIFIED
This document describes a proposed protocol architecture. Some features are subject to ongoing research, audit, and implementation constraints.
Introduction
In an era of unprecedented financial surveillance, REDACTED emerges as a fundamental assertion of privacy rights in the digital economy.
On most blockchains today, using money means publishing your financial history forever.
This whitepaper presents the technical architecture, philosophical foundation, and economic design of a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency that returns control over financial information to its rightful owner: you.
The Problem
The Modern Surveillance Economy
Every transaction leaves a permanent trail. Wallets get clustered and profiled. Data brokers, governments, and corporations watch financial flows with unprecedented precision.
What was promised as transparency has become a weapon. The blockchain's immutability, once celebrated as a feature, now serves as an eternal record of every financial decision.
In traditional finance, only your bank knew your spending habits. In public blockchains, everyone does.
The Result
- →People self-censor financially, avoiding legitimate transactions out of fear of exposure
- →Donors, activists, and journalists face targeting based on public transaction history
- →One wallet mistake becomes a permanent, searchable identity marker
- →"Nothing to hide" becomes "nothing left" — privacy as a casualty of radical transparency
The Philosophy
Privacy is not secrecy. Privacy is dignity.
Privacy is the ability to choose what is seen.
REDACTED believes:
- •You can be lawful and private
- •Transparency should be opt-in, not forced
- •Money should function like cash again
- •Freedom requires unreadable spaces
The chain does not ask why. It only ensures they cannot see.
Not Just Another Privacy Coin
REDACTED is built around selective redaction, not total opacity. Privacy is a spectrum, and users should control where they fall on it.
Some privacy systems pursue total opacity, making compliance, auditability, and lawful use difficult or impossible. Others sacrifice privacy entirely for transparency. REDACTED is designed to occupy the middle ground: private by default, provable by choice.
Private by Default
All transactions are privacy-preserving unless explicitly disclosed
Verifiable Without Identity
Prove validity without revealing participants or amounts
User-Controlled Disclosure
Choose what to reveal, when, and to whom
Plausible Deniability
Built-in protection against coercion and correlation
Technical Architecture
CLASSIFICATION NOTE:
The following section contains high-level technical architecture. Detailed implementation specifications are available in separate technical documentation for developers and auditors.
REDACTED's architecture combines proven privacy primitives with Solana-compatible implementations, prioritizing deployable security over theoretical completeness.
Privacy Stack
Stealth Addresses
One-time addresses generated for each transaction, preventing recipient tracking across multiple payments. Only the recipient can detect and spend funds.
Ring Signatures & Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Cryptographic signatures that hide the sender within a group of possible signers. Combined with ZK proofs to verify transaction validity without revealing sensitive data.
Transaction Amount Obfuscation
Commitment schemes ensure transaction amounts are hidden while maintaining verifiable balance integrity. Prevents flow analysis and amount correlation attacks.
Protocol-Level Transaction Obfuscation
Wallet-level transaction obfuscation occurs automatically without user intervention. No centralized services, no additional fees, no trust assumptions.
Selective Disclosure Layer
REDACTED's unique value proposition lies in its selective disclosure capabilities. Users maintain complete privacy while retaining the ability to prove specific claims when needed.
Example: A user can prove they paid rent on time without revealing their wallet, balance, or other transaction history.
View Keys
Optional keys for auditors or compliance verification
Payment Proofs
Prove a payment occurred without exposing wallet details
Redaction Proofs
Verify validity of redacted information
Network Properties
- ✓Permissionless participation and validation
- ✓No centralized mixing services or trusted third parties
- ✓Decentralized infrastructure with no single point of failure
- ✓Resistant to chain analysis heuristics and clustering algorithms
Tokenomics
ECONOMIC MODEL NOTE:
The tokenomics are designed to incentivize privacy-preserving behavior while ensuring long-term network sustainability and decentralization.
Supply Model
Total Supply: Fixed with slow tail emission
Initial Distribution: Fair launch, minimal dev allocation
Emission Schedule: Decreasing over time with perpetual low emission
No supply changes can be made without on-chain governance approval and time-locked execution.
Incentive Structure
Validators: Block rewards + transaction fees
Privacy Users: Privacy-preserving transactions are economically favored at the protocol level
Network Security: Staking rewards for node operators
Privacy Incentives
Fee Structure
Private transactions receive reduced fees compared to transparent transactions, incentivizing privacy-preserving behavior at the protocol level.
Network Effects
The more users transact privately, the stronger the anonymity set becomes for everyone. Privacy is a collective benefit, not an individual burden.
Governance Participation
Token holders can participate in governance without revealing their holdings or identity, maintaining privacy while ensuring democratic protocol evolution.
Governance
Anonymous governance, verifiable outcomes
REDACTED's governance model ensures that protocol decisions can be made collectively without compromising the privacy of participants. Governance itself must respect the same privacy guarantees as transactions.
Participation in governance is optional and does not require ongoing identity exposure.
Privacy-Preserving Voting
- →Vote without revealing wallet address or holdings
- →Zero-knowledge proofs verify voting eligibility
- →Public results, private voters
Proposal System
- →Anyone can submit proposals anonymously
- →Transparent proposal content and rationale
- →Community discussion without identity exposure
Voting Power Distribution
To prevent plutocracy while maintaining privacy, voting power is weighted by both token holdings and time-locked commitment to the network. This ensures long-term participants have greater influence than short-term speculators.
Voting power = f(tokens) × g(lock_duration)
Where f and g are sublinear functions to limit whale dominance
Governance Domains
Protocol Upgrades
Core protocol changes and improvements
Parameter Adjustments
Fee structures, emission rates, constants
Treasury Management
Community fund allocation and grants
Use Cases
Everyday Users
Salary & Payments
Receive wages without broadcasting your income to the world
Personal Transfers
Send money to family and friends without creating a permanent public record
Charitable Donations
Support causes without fear of targeting or social pressure
Private Commerce
Purchase goods and services without creating a permanent spending profile
High-Risk Groups
For certain individuals and organizations, financial privacy is not a preference — it's a necessity for safety and operational security.
REDACTED is a neutral financial protocol and does not endorse or facilitate illegal activity.
Journalists & Media
Protect sources, receive payments securely, and maintain financial independence without revealing funding sources or operational budgets to adversaries.
Activists & NGOs
Accept donations and funding without exposing supporters to retaliation in jurisdictions where advocacy work is criminalized or socially stigmatized.
Whistleblowers
Receive payments for information without creating financial trails that could compromise identity or safety when exposing corruption or wrongdoing.
Dissidents & Refugees
Maintain financial autonomy when fleeing persecution, accessing funds across borders without surveillance by oppressive regimes.
Builders & Developers
REDACTED provides a foundation for privacy-first applications and services that respect user autonomy and resist surveillance capitalism.
Privacy-First Apps
Build applications that don't spy on users or monetize their data
Anonymous Markets
Create marketplaces without buyer/seller surveillance
Redacted DAOs
Organize collectively without exposing participant identities
Threat Model
SECURITY ASSESSMENT:
Understanding what REDACTED protects against, what it does not protect against, and the boundaries of user responsibility is essential for informed use.
What REDACTED Protects Against
Transaction Graph Analysis
REDACTED prevents observers from linking transactions to specific wallets or users through stealth addresses and transaction obfuscation. The protocol breaks the chain of transaction history that makes traditional blockchains transparent.
Amount Correlation
Transaction amounts are hidden through commitment schemes, preventing attackers from correlating transactions by matching amounts across the blockchain.
Sender Identification
Ring signatures and zero-knowledge proofs hide the true sender within a group of possible signers, making it computationally infeasible to determine the actual sender of a transaction.
Recipient Tracking
Stealth addresses ensure that each transaction uses a unique, one-time address. Recipients cannot be tracked across multiple payments without the recipient's view key.
Balance Disclosure
Wallet balances are not publicly visible. Only the wallet owner can determine their balance through their private view keys.
What REDACTED Does NOT Protect Against
Endpoint Surveillance
REDACTED protects on-chain privacy but cannot prevent surveillance at transaction endpoints (exchanges, payment processors, merchants). Users must exercise caution when converting between REDACTED and other assets or fiat currency.
Network-Level Analysis
Sophisticated attackers with network-level visibility (ISPs, nation-states) may attempt timing correlation attacks or traffic analysis. Using Tor, VPNs, or other network privacy tools is recommended for maximum protection.
User Error
Revealing view keys, reusing addresses, or sharing transaction details publicly can compromise privacy. Users are responsible for proper key management and operational security.
Compromised Devices
Malware, keyloggers, or compromised wallets can expose private keys or view keys. Users must maintain secure computing environments and use trusted wallet software.
Social Engineering
REDACTED cannot protect against users being coerced or tricked into revealing their keys, transaction history, or other sensitive information through social engineering attacks.
Future Cryptographic Advances
While REDACTED uses state-of-the-art cryptography, future advances in cryptanalysis or quantum computing may weaken current protections. The protocol is designed to be upgradeable to address emerging threats.
User Responsibility Boundaries
REDACTED provides strong on-chain privacy guarantees, but privacy is a shared responsibility between the protocol and its users.
Protocol Responsibility
- • On-chain transaction privacy
- • Cryptographic protection
- • Network-level obfuscation
- • Selective disclosure tools
User Responsibility
- • Secure key management
- • Operational security
- • Endpoint privacy
- • Informed usage
Privacy is not absolute. It is a spectrum that requires both technical excellence and user vigilance.
Roadmap
DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:
The following roadmap outlines the planned development phases for REDACTED. Timelines are subject to change based on security audits, community feedback, and technical requirements.
Exposure Awareness
- →Expanded wallet exposure analysis
- →Counterparty pattern detection
- →Repeated interaction warnings
- →Memo and metadata leak detection
- →Redacted share cards optimized for social sharing
- →Paid exports using REDACTED tokens
- →No accounts, no data retention
Privacy principle:
You cannot protect what you do not understand.
Selective Redaction Tools
- →Redacted share links with expiry
- →Proof-of-payment artifacts (masked by default)
- →View-only reports for third parties
- →Optional disclosure toggles at export time
- →Improved scoring methodology transparency
- →Stablecoin payroll tooling (private records, public settlement)
Privacy principle:
Disclosure should be intentional, not accidental.
Private Utilities
- →Private AI prompts paid in REDACTED
- →No logging
- →No accounts
- →Stateless by design
- →X402-style pay-per-use access
- →Burn or spend REDACTED for tool execution
- →Ephemeral usage receipts
- →No permanent on-chain linkage between tool usage and wallet identity
Privacy principle:
If nothing is stored, nothing can leak.
Redacted Coordination
- →Anonymous proposal publishing
- →Redacted voting signals (non-binding, exploratory)
- →Community tooling funded by creator fees
- →Optional governance experiments
- →No promises of protocol control
Privacy principle:
Participation does not require identification.
Future Research (Non-Commitment)
- →Research into Solana-compatible privacy primitives
- →Evaluation of shielded pool designs
- →External protocol integrations
- →Audit-first approach
- →No deployment without community consensus
Important note:
These items are exploratory and not guaranteed.
Conclusion
If everything is visible, nothing is free.
If nothing is private, nothing is safe.
Some things must remain REDACTED.
REDACTED is not about hiding from the world. It is about choosing how you appear in it.