> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.redacted.money/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.redacted.money/readme.md).

# Introduction

You worked hard for what you have.

Late nights. Calculated risks. Years of learning a space most people still don't understand. And somewhere along the way, it paid off.

But the moment it did, something changed.

Your wallet became a window. Anyone with a browser can see exactly what you hold, what you've done, and what you're worth. Not your bank. Not your government. Anyone. The person across from you at a conference. The stranger who found your ENS name. The analytics firm that has been tracking wallets like yours for years.

This is the part nobody told you about DeFi. The freedom was real. The transparency was the price.

This changes here.

Redacted is a private DeFi layer built on [Rujira](https://rujira.network), THORChain's app layer. Deposit into a shared private Reserve, and from that moment your DeFi life runs from a private account with no visible connection to your public wallet. Trade, swap, stake, borrow. Everything you already do, without your life story attached to every transaction.

And it feels like nothing else in crypto:

**Sign once. That's it.** One sign-in when you open Private Mode. After that, every action is authorized by zero-knowledge proofs generated in your browser and carried on-chain by a relayer. Your wallet never signs another transaction. No gas juggling, no new chain, no new seed phrase.

**There is no database.** Your account is not a row on our server. It lives on-chain as encrypted notes that only your keys can read. Any browser, anywhere, can rebuild it from the chain alone. Our infrastructure is a convenience, never a custodian.

**Your wallet is the key, not the identity.** MetaMask, Rabby, Keplr, Trust and more. The wallet you already have derives your private account and then steps out of the picture.

> Trade privately. Bank on-chain. Stay in control.

## Private, permissionless, decided by nodes

**The wait strengthens your privacy.** New money waits briefly before it can be used privately, so a deposit can't be matched to what you do with it minutes later. The wait also gives the nodes time to send back money they decide not to accept, which keeps the crowd you hide in clean.

**Permissionless.** No sign-up, no KYC, no identity checks. Connect a wallet, sign one message, and you are in. Every deposit is approved by the node network. What a node checks before it approves is up to the nodes.

**The nodes decide, no one else.** Only independent nodes decide whether a deposit is sent back, and only to its sender. The core contributors, the DAO and Bōheki (the DAO's safety multisig) cannot turn away or send back anyone's money, and no vote or switch can block a withdrawal. Bōheki (once, for about 3 days at most) and node votes can pause all new deposits, but that is a brake on everyone at once, not a decision about any one person.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Coming soon.** The wait and the node network roll out in upcoming updates. Ozone is the reference screener, built by Redacted's core contributors: open source and working only from public data. Each node chooses which Ozone instance it trusts, and the node network can decide to use or add other sources. See [Compliance](/protocol/compliance.md), [How the node network works](/node-network/node-network.md) and [Who decides what](/protocol/system-overview.md#who-decides-what).
{% endhint %}

## Explore Redacted

* [Why Redacted exists](/why-redacted.md)
* [Start using Private Mode](/using-redacted/getting-started.md)
* [Reserve and Spending, explained](/using-redacted/how-it-works.md)
* [How the privacy works](/using-redacted/privacy.md)
* [The architecture](/protocol/architecture.md)
* [The node network](/node-network/node-network.md)
* [Who decides what](/protocol/system-overview.md#who-decides-what)
* [Compliance](/protocol/compliance.md)
* [The community ceremony](/ceremony/ceremony.md)

## Official links

* **Website:** [redacted.money](https://www.redacted.money)
* **Telegram:** [t.me/redactedFND](https://t.me/redactedFND)
* **X (Twitter):** [@redacted\_money](https://x.com/redacted_money)
* **Built on:** [Rujira](https://rujira.network), THORChain's app layer