What is Priv Protocol

Priv Protocol is the encryption layer for Solana. We're building confidential payment infrastructure that brings institutional-grade privacy to the world's fastest blockchain without sacrificing speed, cost, or liquidity.

Think of Priv as incognito mode for payments. When you send USDC or SOL through Priv, recipients can't see your wallet balance, transaction history, or other holdings. It's privacy middleware that adds confidentiality to existing high-liquidity assets rather than requiring a new token.

The Problem We're Solving

Solana's transparency is both a feature and a bug. Every transaction is public by default, creating three critical problems:

Financial Surveillance: Your wallet balance, transaction history, and counterparties are visible to anyone with your address. This creates competitive disadvantages for businesses and safety risks for individuals.

MEV Exploitation: Public mempools allow sophisticated actors to front-run your transactions, extracting value through sandwich attacks and other MEV strategies.

Institutional Barriers: Traditional finance institutions can't operate on transparent blockchains where competitors can monitor their treasury movements and trading strategies.

How Priv Solves This

Priv Protocol introduces three core privacy primitives to Solana:

Stealth Addresses

Recipients generate meta-addresses that allow senders to derive unique, one-time stealth addresses for each payment. The recipient can claim funds without revealing their main wallet or transaction history. It's like having a new PO box for every package delivery.

Encrypted Escrow

Payment links create encrypted escrow contracts where funds are locked until the recipient provides the correct claim secret. This enables private commerce, milestone-based payments, and secure peer-to-peer transfers without exposing wallet balances.

Gasless Relayer

Our relayer network pays transaction fees on behalf of users, preserving privacy by eliminating the need for recipients to hold SOL for gas. This creates truly frictionless claiming experiences.

Key Features

Sub-Second Finality: Built on Solana's 400ms block times, Priv transactions settle faster than traditional payment processors.

Sub-Penny Costs: Transaction fees average ~$0.001, making microtransactions economically viable.

SPL Token Support: Works with USDC, SOL, and all SPL tokens, preserving access to Solana's deep liquidity.

Developer-Friendly: SDK, embeddable widgets, and Telegram bot make integration straightforward for any application.

Compliance-Ready: Viewing keys enable selective disclosure for regulatory requirements while maintaining privacy by default.

What Priv Is Not

Priv Protocol is not a mixer, privacy coin, or separate blockchain. We don't create new tokens or fragment liquidity into isolated pools. Instead, we add privacy as a feature to existing assets on Solana.

Unlike Tornado Cash-style mixers that rely on anonymity sets and can be tainted by illicit activity, Priv uses cryptographic stealth addresses that are mathematically private without requiring trust in other users' behavior.

Unlike privacy coins that require new tokens with limited liquidity, Priv operates on USDC and SOL, giving users access to Solana's $40B+ ecosystem while maintaining confidentiality.

The Vision

We're building the privacy infrastructure that unlocks the next wave of institutional adoption on Solana. When BlackRock or Franklin Templeton manage tokenized assets, they need confidential transaction capabilities to protect their strategies from competitors.

When individuals send money to family or pay contractors, they shouldn't have to expose their entire financial history. When businesses accept payments, they shouldn't broadcast their revenue to competitors.

Priv Protocol makes these use cases possible by bringing institutional-grade privacy to Solana's speed and cost advantages. We're not just building privacy tools, we're building the foundation for confidential finance on the world's most performant blockchain.

Getting Started

Ready to add privacy to your Solana applications? Our SDK supports stealth payments, payment links, and multisig escrow with just a few lines of code. The PrivPayButton widget can be embedded in any website for private commerce, and our Telegram bot enables instant private transfers.

Privacy isn't a luxury, it's infrastructure. And infrastructure should be fast, cheap, and easy to use. That's exactly what Priv Protocol delivers on Solana.