Blog

Updates and deep dives from the team.

• Bridging to Solana and arriving on a private wallet

  Bridging assets to Solana lands them on an address tied to your source-chain identity and the bridge transaction. Here's how to bridge and end up on a fresh Solana wallet with no on-chain link back to where the funds came from.

  2026-06-01

• Paying a freelancer or contractor privately

  Paying a contractor in crypto hands them a permanent view of your wallet — your balance, your other payments, who else you pay. Here's how to pay a one-off invoice on Solana without exposing your treasury or your main wallet.

  2026-06-01

• Spending from a KYC'd exchange wallet without linking every payment to you

  When you withdraw from Coinbase, Binance, or Kraken, the receiving wallet is tied to your verified identity. Every payment you make from it after that is linked to your real name. Here's how to spend without dragging your KYC identity along.

  2026-06-01

• Withdrawing to a Ledger or hardware wallet privately

  Moving funds to a hardware wallet for cold storage usually re-links it to your main wallet on the first transfer. Here's how to fund a Ledger or other cold wallet so nothing on-chain ties it back to you.

  2026-06-01

• Sending USDC privately on Solana

  How to move USDC on Solana so the recipient — and everyone watching the chain — can't tie the payment back to your main wallet. A step-by-step walkthrough, plus the slips that quietly undo it.

  2026-06-01

• DAO and treasury privacy on Solana

  A DAO treasury on Solana is a fully public bank statement — every vendor, salary, grant, and runway figure visible to competitors and counterparties. How to keep treasury operations confidential without giving up self-custody.

  2026-05-31

• Accepting crypto donations privately on Solana

  A public donation address turns every supporter's wallet — and your total raise — into open data. How creators, nonprofits, and open-source projects can take donations on Solana without exposing donors or treasury.

  2026-05-30

• Private OTC trades on Solana: settling without broadcasting your size

  An OTC settlement on a public chain tells the whole market your counterparty, your size, and your timing. How to settle large Solana trades without handing observers a roadmap to your position.

  2026-05-30

• The Solana wallet privacy checklist

  A practical, ordered checklist for keeping a Solana transfer private — from depositing and choosing a delay to picking a clean recipient and avoiding the off-chain tells that quietly undo everything.

  2026-05-29

• Swapping SOL to USDC privately: cross-asset withdrawals explained

  You can deposit one asset and have the recipient receive another — SOL in, USDC out — with the on-chain link between the two still broken. How private cross-asset withdrawals work and when to use them.

  2026-05-29

• Encrypted amounts are not private: hiding the number isn't hiding the link

  Confidential-transfer schemes that encrypt the amount still leave the sender, the recipient, and the connection between them fully public. Why hiding the number is the easy half of privacy — and the half that matters least.

  2026-05-28

• Sending SOL without revealing your main wallet

  A practical, step-by-step guide to moving SOL on Solana so the recipient can't trace it back to your primary wallet — what to do, what order to do it in, and the mistakes that quietly undo all of it.

  2026-05-28

• What the blockchain reveals about you

  Solana isn't anonymous — it's pseudonymous, which is weaker than it sounds. A plain walkthrough of exactly what anyone can read from your wallet, how one leaked link unravels the rest, and what actually closes the gap.

  2026-05-27

• Anonymity sets on Solana: what actually makes a shielded pool private

  How the size and composition of a shielded pool's anonymity set determines how private your transfer actually is, and how SolMask's delay and deposit cadence shape it.

  2026-05-26

• How zero-knowledge proofs actually work inside SolMask

  A non-mathematical walkthrough of what SolMask's Groth16 withdraw proof asserts, what the verifier sees, and where the privacy actually comes from.

  2026-05-26

• Private payroll on Solana: paying contractors without leaking the graph

  How to run a recurring private payroll on Solana that pays contractors in USDC without exposing your full payment graph on a public block explorer.

  2026-05-26

• Receiving SOL privately to a fresh wallet

  How to set up a fresh Solana wallet that can privately receive funds without exposing the sender link, and without pre-funding the wallet with SOL.

  2026-05-26

• The privacy delay, explained: why SolMask makes you wait

  Why every SolMask deposit picks a delay between 10 minutes and 1 week, what the unlock_slot actually buys you, and how to choose for your use case.

  2026-05-26

• Announcing SolMask

  A zero-knowledge shielded pool on Solana with cross-asset withdrawals via Jupiter.

  2026-05-25

• SolMask fees explained: free deposits, fee on withdrawal

  Deposits are free. How the withdrawal fee — a percentage in the withdrawn asset plus a flat 0.003 SOL — works, what it pays for, and where it goes.

  2026-05-25

• Why we built on zero-knowledge proofs

  Public chains broadcast everything. ZK is how you get privacy back without giving up self-custody.

  2026-05-25