Stealth payments

Stealth addresses (EIP-5564) let someone pay you without revealing who got paid — and they work at volume one, with no mixer and no crowd.

How it works

1. You generate a meta-address once and share it publicly (it's safe to post).
2. A sender derives a brand-new one-time address from your meta-address for each payment.
3. They send funds there and post a small public hint — an ephemeral key + a view tag.
4. Only your viewing key can scan those hints and detect payments meant for you.
5. Only your spending key can move the funds.

To everyone else, each payment just lands on an address that looks like noise, with no on-chain tie back to you.

What it hides (and doesn't)

• Hides: the recipient — there's no public link between the stealth address and your identity.
• Doesn't hide: that a payment happened, or the sender. Combine stealth addressing (hides who receives) with confidential balances (hides how much) for the strongest privacy without needing an anonymity set.

Stealth payments are the one privacy tool here that needs no crowd — perfect for low-volume, one-off private receipts.