Inside the protocol.

Encrypted balances, eight-key rings and a proof verified by the token contract. No separate pool. No admin, upgrade path or pause.

How the mechanism works

Balances: ElGamal ciphertexts on Baby Jubjub, stored under your public key in the token contract.
Transfers: Eight public ring keys and one Groth16 proof. The proof verifies the transfer and balanced ciphertexts.
Epochs: 60 seconds. Incoming value becomes spendable next epoch. One private spend per key per epoch.
Relayer: Submits the proof without a transaction from the sending wallet. The public ZETHER fee is bound into the proof.

Public information & privacy limits

Entry: Buy and hide amounts, paying wallet and destination public key.
Every transfer: The eight ring keys, epoch, nullifier and relayer fee.
Exit: Amount and payout address. The paying key stays hidden inside the ring.
Limits: Anonymity is one of eight per transfer. Timing and amounts at the edges can be correlated. This is not a mixer or a full shielded pool.

Deployment & live configuration

Chain: Robinhood Chain · Chain ID 4663 · 60-second epochs.
Token: ZETHER on Robinhood Chain. Uniswap v4 pool against native ETH, 1% pool fee, no hook. No owner, no admin, no upgrade.
Contract: Loading from the relayer…
Relayer fee: Loading from the relayer…
Relayer: One server submits private transactions and prices its fee from the pool to cover gas. If it is down, private sends wait; public trading, buying into a private balance and hiding never depend on it.

Verification links & measurements

DarkTransfer(8) has 25,148 constraints and 73 public inputs. Gas below is from the Robinhood Chain fork tests; it varies with storage state.

Source is not yet published. No independent audit.

Try a private transfer.

Create a key, buy or hide, and send inside a ring of eight.

Open wallet Robinhood Chain · Unaudited