Privacy
Coins and networks that protect the confidentiality of balances and transactions.
Shape from its 3 largest coins (99% of the sector, DefiLlama prices), set to CoinGecko’s sector market cap at every hour it was recorded.
Privacy coins
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About Privacy
Privacy is a category of cryptocurrencies that conceal the sender, the receiver or the amount of a transaction.
Coins in the category use techniques such as ring signatures and zero-knowledge proofs to hide payment details. Monero is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency that is private, untraceable, fungible and decentralized. Zcash is a cryptocurrency built around privacy. It uses zero-knowledge proofs so that transaction details stay encrypted.
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Several exchanges have delisted privacy coins as of 2026.
Zano is an open-source layer-1 cryptocurrency and ecosystem built for privacy.
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