Questions, answered plainly.

An Ethereum wallet with a shielded balance. You deposit ETH or USDC into a shared pool, then send, withdraw or trade from it using zero-knowledge proofs made in your browser. Its main use is funding fresh wallets without a public link to your main wallet.

On Ethereum every transfer is public, and wallets that trade are watched and copied. A new wallet funded from your main one is linked to it in one hop. Darkpool removes that funding link. It does not hide the trade itself.

Mainnet deposits and $DARK purchases are not available yet. Verified deployment and token addresses will appear on the status page before those actions open.

The shielded pool supports ETH and USDC. Ghost Buy and Ghost Sell trade Stockereum tokens. General Uniswap routing for Ghost trades: .

Ethereum mainnet (chain 1) for the beta. Lower-cost layer-2 deployment: .

No. Darkpool reduces linkability; it does not promise anonymity. Deposits, withdrawals, ghost wallets and their trades are public. A small pool, distinctive amounts or timing can let observers correlate activity.

Which notes fund an action, who owns which note, and the amounts and parties of private transfers inside the pool.

It separates a trade’s funding from your public wallet through the shielded pool. The purchase, receiving wallet and token balance remain visible. Reusing fresh wallets or combining their funds can create links.

Wait between deposit and withdrawal, avoid unique amounts, never withdraw to a wallet linked to your deposit, and keep ghost wallets separate. See best practices.

The relayer sees your request, its public outputs and network metadata such as your IP address. It does not see your seed or which notes you spent.

No. Deposits from sanctioned addresses are refused. Darkpool is built for ordinary users who don’t want their wallet history broadcast with every trade.

A normal Ethereum address derived from your seed by index. Ghost Buy delivers tokens to a new one that has never held ETH, and Ghost Sell lets it sell without ETH for gas. Your seed recovers all of them.

Your Darkpool receive address. Others can send to it privately from their shielded balance. It is not an Ethereum address.

Enter your 24-word seed in the wallet. It rescans public pool events, decrypts the notes you own and re-derives every ghost wallet. An encrypted backup can speed this up, but the seed alone is enough.

You can withdraw directly from the chain. The wallet builds the proof from your seed and public data, and you submit the transaction from any account with ETH for gas. That account is visible as the sender.

Your proof fixes a guaranteed minimum that goes back into the pool. If the sale fills better, the extra ETH stays in the fresh wallet, where you can recover it later. Very small surplus may not be worth the gas to move.

Ghost Buy, Ghost Sell and Private Swap are single transactions: if any step fails, all of it reverts. The wallet journals each request so an interrupted one is retried unchanged.

A 0.1% protocol fee on Ghost Buy and Ghost Sell, 0.1% on Private Swap, and 0% on staking. Relayed actions add a quoted network fee and a small fixed service fee (currently 0.00003 ETH). See fees.

Verifying a zero-knowledge proof on Ethereum is expensive: about 1.6–2.0M gas per private action, roughly double for Private Swap. The cost in ETH is gas used × gas price, quoted before you sign.

No. You sign the fee. The relayer cannot take more than the signed amount; if gas rises above the quote, you need a fresh quote.

No. There has been no independent audit. The mainnet launch will be an unaudited beta with deposit caps. Tests and Ethereum-fork rehearsals are development checks, not an audit.

The contracts have no owner and no upgrade path. A deposit guardian can only change how much new value a pool accepts and set or replace deposit screening (with notice). It cannot block transfers, withdrawals or exits, and it can renounce the role.

Groth16 needs a one-time setup that is sound if at least one contributor was honest. Darkpool’s builds on the public Perpetual Powers of Tau and was finalized with an Ethereum block-hash beacon. A multi-party ceremony is in progress. Details.

No. Proofs are generated in your browser and only the proof and public data are sent. Anyone asking for your seed is attempting theft.

A source archive with build scripts and licences is published: download it.

Not yet. It will be created on Stockereum after the utility. The address will be published only on darkpool.website and the official X account after verification. How to verify it.

Stockereum tokens have a fixed 1,000,000,000 supply, no owner, no mint function, and liquidity in a permanent Uniswap v4 market.

stDARK staking , revenue buybacks into the stDARK vault , and an option to pay the service fee in $DARK . None of it is live.

Darkpool does not promise any rate or return. A stDARK share redeems for its part of the $DARK in the vault. That rises only when $DARK is added to the vault, for example by the planned revenue buybacks .