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PRIVACY

What's private, what isn't

The honest scope of what Sedona protects.

What's private

When you swap on Sedona, the following are not visible to validators or other observers before your transaction settles:

  • Your wallet address as the sender of the trade.
  • The amount you're trading.
  • The order in which trades arrive. No priority leakage.

After settlement, the fact that a trade happened in a given pool becomes public, but the specifics above stay encrypted.

The Sedona Settings page in light mode showing Privacy active and three protected categories: Shielded balances ON, Shielded trades ON, Shielded transfers ON.
The Settings page lists what's actively shielded for your account. Balances, trade sizes and timing, and transfer addresses are all enforced by the Seismic protocol.

What's still public

To be honest about scope, a few things stay observable on Sedona that some people assume are hidden.

What's still publicWhy
Pool-level totalsAnyone can see total liquidity in a pool. Individual contributions stay encrypted.
Aggregate trading volumePool-level volume over time is observable. Per-trade sizes are not.
Your wallet's existenceIf you've ever interacted with public contracts elsewhere, the wallet itself and its public balances are still on-chain.
The token you're holdingRegular ERC-20 balances are public. Only Seismic-shielded tokens are private at the balance level.

How privacy works

Privacy on Sedona is hardware-enforced. Validators see only ciphertext, not your wallet, not your trade size, not the order. This is what's actually happening.

Verifying privacy yourself

Don't take this on faith. Compare a Sedona tx hash to a public DEX tx in the explorer.

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