Shield Wallet @ShieldApp

Privacy often gets framed as having something to hide. In practice, it's how most financial life already works: your employer doesn't publish your salary, and your bank doesn't post your balance for strangers to read. Shield brings that same expectation onchain, and you decide what stays private and what you share. shield.app

Onchain market makers can now take into account who is on the other side of a trade. Your wallet's history and the route your order took can both shape the quote you receive. On @ShieldFi, there's no track record for a quote to be built around.

Shield Swap @ShieldFi

4 weeks ago

Welcome to the era of confidential finance. Where your identity, portfolio, and trading strategies belong to you. Where the blockchain protects your privacy, and gives you comfort knowing your trades are fair & safe. Onchain finance is now protected finance. That’s Shield Swap.

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The latest Shield updates on mobile and extension give you more control over what dapps can see and more checks before you send. ▸ Dapps set to "Decrypt upon request" now ask before reading your record data ▸ Send review flags new recipients and high-value transfers ▸ Hidden balances stay hidden across activity and swap ▸ Swap lists the tokens you hold first Update in the Chrome Web Store or your app store 👇 shield.app

Good to see USDCx on Aleo supporting @arc from launch! Every new route in makes it easier to choose privacy for the dollars you actually use.

Aleo @AleoHQ

2 weeks ago

Arc 🤝 Aleo Today @arc went live & we're excited that USDCx on Aleo supports xReserve on Arc deposits from day one. What this unlocks: 👉 Deposit @USDC on Arc to mint USDCx on Aleo, with faster finality and lower costs. Ethereum remains fully supported 👉 CCTP allows users on

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Trading confidentially used to mean leaving your wallet to do it. Confidential swaps on @ShieldFi now run inside Shield. Your assets, your privacy, and a confidential venue in the same place, with no handoff in between. shield.app

A public address is a track record. Anyone patient enough to study yours can use it to work out what you are likely to do next, then trade ahead of you. @ShieldFi was built so a trader's identity never becomes part of that dataset. arxiv.org/abs/2608.04373

The second thing is that this knowledge is worth money. Watching what those top wallets were doing made short-term price prediction roughly 13% more accurate than models built only on prices and order flow. The advantage was even larger at the exact moments trades went through.

Informed traders are supposed to need anonymity. The whole idea is that they make money by blending in with everyone else. A new paper looked at what happens on a public exchange where they cannot blend in, covering 147,000 wallets and $84 billion in trading volume.

When you have the cryptography to hide everything, the obvious move is to hide everything. @ShieldFi deliberately did not. Identities and strategies stay confidential while prices and reserves stay verifiable by anyone. A market no one can see is not a market.

Howard Wu @1HowardWu

a month ago

When we started building @ShieldFi, one of the first questions was how much should be confidential. The easy answer was everything. The cryptography exists afterall. We chose not to use it that way. The previous generation of privacy protocols treated total opacity as the

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Shield extension v1.31.0 is live 🛡️ ▸ Swap on Shield Swap directly from your wallet ▸ Redesigned dApp transaction, permissions, and sign message screens ▸ Accepted private transactions now apply to your balance immediately ▸ Portfolio change now reflects 24h price movement instead of counting received tokens as gains Fewer steps between you and what you came to do. Update in the Chrome Web Store 👇 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shield/…

On a public chain, anyone who pays you can look up your entire financial history, from your current balance to every counterparty you have ever transacted with. Getting paid shouldn't mean handing over your books. Shield was built so a transaction stays between the people making it. shield.app

A trading firm was confident their onchain activity could not be linked, since they used fresh addresses across different networks. It took a few hours of correlating trade sizes with timing to reconstruct a large part of their quarter. @ShieldFi was built so that kind of reconstruction is not possible to begin with.

Howard Wu @1HowardWu

a month ago

Early on, we met with a trading firm to learn how they traded onchain. They used fresh addresses across different networks and believed their activity could not be linked. So we tested it. We indexed recent blocks across those networks and cross-correlated trades by size, gas

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Push notifications are now live for Shield on Android. Most wallet notifications put your activity on display for anyone glancing at your phone. Shield's are contentless, telling you funds arrived or a transfer confirmed and nothing more. Update to v1.11.3 in the Play Store today 👇 play.google.com/store/apps/det…

If you already use Shield, you are one step from trading on Shield Swap. Your wallet is the entry point, and your assets shield with one click. Here's the whole path from wallet to first trade.

Shield Swap @ShieldFi

a month ago

Get started on Shield Swap in 4 simple steps: 1. Install Shield Wallet. 2. Deposit funds via nexus.hyperlane.xyz & usdcx.aleo.org 3. 1-Click Shield your assets. 4. Swap on swap.shield.fi Protect your identity, portfolio, & trading strategies.

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Some market participants cannot trade in the open without moving the market against themselves or exposing a strategy they have spent years building. Shield Swap was built for them. Confidential execution paired with the screening and disclosure controls serious capital requires. Early access is open now.

Shield Swap @ShieldFi

a month ago

Onchain finance has offered institutions 2 bad options. Anonymous infrastructure that regulated firms cannot use. Transparent infrastructure that exposes every position and strategy. Shield Swap gives institutions a different path. Confidential-by-default. Compliant-by-design.

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Shield extension v1.30.0 is live 🛡️ ▸ Redesigned main screen, token details, and dApp interaction screens ▸ Swap directly from a token's details page with that token preselected ▸ Clearer explanations when a dApp request can't be completed ▸ Stronger protection against wallet data loss on restart A cleaner look across the screens you use most. Update in the Chrome Web Store today 👇 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shield/…

Institutions have spent a decade choosing between trading onchain and keeping their strategy to themselves. Shield Swap removes that choice. Counterparty addresses stay confidential while amounts remain auditable, and view keys let firms disclose what regulators need without opening their entire history. Early access is open now at shield.fi.

Shield Swap @ShieldFi

a month ago

Today, we are opening early access to Shield Swap. For a decade, institutions considering onchain finance have faced an unacceptable tradeoff. Transparent markets expose wallet activity, portfolios, and trading strategies. Existing privacy infrastructure often lacks the controls

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Today we are opening early access to Shield Swap. Public blockchains expose the identity, portfolio, and activity behind every address. Anyone with a block explorer can reconstruct your trading history. Shield Swap protects your identity, portfolio, and trading strategies. View keys allow firms to disclose specific information to their auditors and other authorized parties. And established compliance partners provide screening and compliance records. Shield Swap is non-custodial. Trades settle on natively-issued stablecoins, and participants retain control of their assets. Try early access at shield.fi and let me know what you think!

Shield Swap @ShieldFi

a month ago

Today, we are opening early access to Shield Swap. For a decade, institutions considering onchain finance have faced an unacceptable tradeoff. Transparent markets expose wallet activity, portfolios, and trading strategies. Existing privacy infrastructure often lacks the controls

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Today, we are opening early access to Shield Swap. For a decade, institutions considering onchain finance have faced an unacceptable tradeoff. Transparent markets expose wallet activity, portfolios, and trading strategies. Existing privacy infrastructure often lacks the controls regulated firms require. Shield Swap brings confidentiality and compliance into the same non-custodial venue. Sender and receiver addresses remain confidential, preventing the public from linking trades to a firm or reconstructing its portfolio. Amounts and token types remain visible and auditable. Established compliance partners provide screening and compliance records. View keys allow firms to disclose specific information to auditors and other authorized parties without exposing their entire financial history. Trades settle in natively issued stablecoins, and participants retain control of their assets. Early access is now open to institutions, businesses, and governments. General availability is planned for later this year. Request access at shield.fi.