Wallet Privacy

Overview

Privacy depends on more than address pseudonyms. Public ledgers, address reuse, timing, amounts, network metadata, exchange records, browser storage, analytics, wallet telemetry, and support interactions can combine to identify users or map relationships.

A new address does not guarantee unlinkability, and privacy features may fail when transaction structure or off-chain data reveals associations. Remote procedure providers, relays, applications, and counterparties observe different information, while backup and recovery processes can expose the entire wallet history.

Wallets should minimize collection, separate identifiers, protect logs, disclose external observers, and provide clear address and network controls. Users need accurate expectations about public visibility, while businesses define retention, access, sharing, legal response, and privacy-preserving support procedures.

An auditable record of Wallet Privacy should link enrollment, signing, approval, broadcast, confirmation, revocation, and recovery events to the governing policy or model version, source evidence, decision, approver, exception, action, and final outcome.

Wallet Privacy is a compliance or privacy requirement that limits disclosure and correlation of a wallet user’s identity, addresses, balances, transactions, devices, counterparties, and behavior. Wallet privacy depends on resisting correlation across ledger, network, device, application, provider, and support data, not simply using new addresses.

Implementation of Wallet Privacy should map a compliance or privacy requirement that limits disclosure and correlation of a wallet user’s identity, addresses, balances, transactions, devices, counterparties, and behavior to the applicable entity, product, customer, transaction, and jurisdictional scope. Evidence for data relationships and observable activity should preserve the governing requirement, policy version, control execution, exception decision, owner, and review date. Material changes affecting the Wallet Privacy context and data relationships and observable activity should trigger reassessment instead of silent reuse of an outdated conclusion.