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Shield is live.
Built on @AleoHQ by @ProvableHQ, Shield is a self-custodial wallet for holding and moving crypto without exposing balances, counterparties, or transaction details by default.
What’s yours is yours.
shield.app/
Tracking links are nothing new. They’re just one of many ways companies monitor and monetize your online activity.
Another reason why people need greater control over their digital privacy.
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ZEC is now live on Shield.
Trade ZEC or provision liquidity while keeping your identity, portfolio, and trading strategies confidential.
Start trading: swap.shield.fi
Shield Wallet MCP is live, so your AI agent can now use Shield the way you do, right down to swapping and shielding your funds.
It works from your shielded balance, using the permissions you choose inside Shield.
Update the extension to try it today!
chromewebstore.google.com/de…
Some of the newest onchain market making runs on closed-source code. You can’t check how your quote was built or why one was picked over another, yet every trade you make is tied to your address on a public ledger for anyone to study.
On @ShieldFi, visibility runs the other way. Pool state is public, so anyone can check how a quote was built, while your wallet address and balance stay confidential.
Shield Wallet holds the confidential side, and Shield Swap keeps the market side open to check.
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On @brave's podcast, @1HowardWu described Shield as "the Signal for crypto."
The comparison holds where it matters. Once you shield your balance, what you hold and who you pay stay between you and the people you're paying.
Messaging has worked this way for years, and it's time money did too.
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Howard Wu (@1HowardWu), founder of @AleoHQ and CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, argues that the biggest obstacle to private stablecoins isn't the technology. Instead, it’s the assumption that compliance and privacy are fundamentally at odds.
Check out this full episode of #TheBraveTechnologist podcast, hosted by @LukeMulks, to learn how zero-knowledge proofs enable compliance without traditional KYC data collection.
Watch now: brave.com/podcast/e140/
The Shield extension has picked up a few upgrades over the past two weeks!
▸ Unlock with Touch ID, Windows Hello, or a saved passkey
▸ Enter send amounts in USD by toggling the unit
▸ Send review now breaks out base and priority fees
▸ Redesigned swap status screen with a step-by-step timeline
▸ Stuck or expired Shield Swaps now settle properly
▸ Home screen tokens are ordered by value
Update in the Chrome Web Store 👇
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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.
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.
shield.fi/
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 👇
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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.
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 other native USDC chains to move into private USDCx on Aleo
👉 Move balances between ecosystems to take advantage of Arc’s live markets for lending, borrowing, trading, onchain FX, payments, and tokenized assets
📖 Read more: aleo.org/post/aleo-xreserve-…
🌐 Explore Arc: arc.io
🦁 Shield your balance on Aleo: usdcx.aleo.org
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.
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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.
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.
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