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Introduction

Veilo is a privacy layer built directly on Solana. It breaks the link between who you are and how you move money, at the cryptographic layer, not by obscuring it.

Solana is one of the fastest and most used blockchains in the world, but it has a fundamental problem: everything is public. Every wallet address, every transfer, every on-chain interaction is permanently visible to anyone who looks. Once someone knows your wallet address, they can trace every transaction you have ever made, map your financial behaviour, and link your on-chain activity to your real identity.

Veilo exists to fix that. When you deposit funds into Veilo, they enter a shared pool where your ownership is replaced by a cryptographic secret known only to you. When you later withdraw, there is no on-chain record connecting the withdrawal back to the original deposit. The funds simply re-emerge at a destination of your choice, with nothing linking them to you.

What Veilo is

Veilo is infrastructure: a privacy backend that wallets, dApps and developers can build on top of. It is not just a wallet, and it is not a mixer.

It is also not only for holding. A private balance in Veilo can trade, take positions, place orders, participate in raises and spend at merchants, all without surfacing the identity behind it. That capability is called private execution, and it is the part of Veilo that most distinguishes it from a pool that only holds funds.

Proof-based ownership, not address-based ownership

Instead of relying on addresses, Veilo uses cryptographic proofs to represent ownership. You prove you have the right to spend funds without ever revealing which deposit those funds came from. The connection is severed at the cryptographic layer, not just obscured.

The problem this solves

Blockchains are transparent by design. That transparency is valuable for verifying that rules are followed, but it creates a serious privacy problem for everyday users. On Solana today:

  • Anyone can look up your wallet and see your complete transaction history.
  • Sending money to someone reveals both your identity and theirs.
  • Your spending patterns, holdings and counterparties are permanently on-chain.
  • Sophisticated actors can cluster wallets, trace fund flows and identify individuals.
  • Any strategy you run in public can be watched, front-run and copied.

This is not a hypothetical risk. It affects traders who do not want their positions known, people sending money across borders, businesses that need financial confidentiality, and anyone who simply believes financial privacy is a basic right.

What a private balance can do

CapabilityWhat it means
Private transferSend SOL or tokens to another Veilo user without either wallet identity appearing on-chain.
Private withdrawalReceive funds at a fresh address that cannot be traced back to you.
Private tradingTrade, take leveraged positions and place resting orders without exposing your strategy.
Private participationEnter token raises without your allocation being publicly attributable.
Real-world spendingFund prepaid cards from a private balance for merchant payments.
Cross-chain reachDeliver value to seven EVM chains, and to systems beyond crypto entirely.
Private dApp useInteract with Solana dApps through the built-in browser, per-dApp.
A backend to build onShip privacy-preserving applications on top of Veilo's infrastructure.

Where to go next

The core workflow

Read the limits too

Being precise about the boundaries is part of the design. Veilo hides users from the public chain, not from a counterparty they deliberately transact with, and not from their own habits. What Veilo does not claim sets out exactly what stays visible, and best practices explains how to avoid undoing the privacy you have.