Balances and assets
What you hold, what you receive and how your balance changes.
Why blockchain privacy matters.
Public blockchains make financial activity visible by default. Learn what a wallet can reveal, why that exposure matters, and how privacy changes what gets published.
Illustrative public ledgerPublicly queryable
Wallet interfaceTraditional public-chain wallet
Public chainEthereum · Solana · other public networks
Address 0x71F4…9C20
Payment receivedFrom 0x82A1…04D7+4,800 USDC
Asset swapUSDC → ETH1,200 USDC
Transfer sentTo 0x3BE8…A901−900 USDC
Closing the app does not close the record. The ledger remains available to anyone who knows, or later discovers, the address.
A public wallet creates a permanent financial trail.
A wallet authorizes transactions, but the network publishes them so anyone can verify the shared ledger. That transparency helps a blockchain work. It can also turn ordinary financial activity into a permanent, searchable record.
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Your wallet authorizes
The wallet signs an action using your key.
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The network publishes
Addresses, assets, amounts, and contract interactions are written to the public ledger.
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Observers connect the activity
Explorers and analytics tools can search, group and revisit that activity later.
One address can reveal more than you expect.
A blockchain address is pseudonymous, not automatically anonymous. Once it is connected to payroll, a payment, a public profile, an exchange withdrawal, or an app, separate parts of your financial activity can be linked.
Payment history
When money arrives, where it goes and the amounts involved.
Financial relationships
The wallets, contracts and organizations you interact with.
Financial habits
Patterns that can suggest payday, trading, saving or spending behavior.
Financial privacy matters wherever money moves.
Bank statements are not posted in shop windows. Payroll is not a public feed. Moving money onchain should not require making everyday financial activity available for anyone to inspect.
Personal safety
Publishing holdings and payment patterns can make people targets for scams, coercion or theft.
Fair transactions
A counterparty should not gain leverage by inspecting your full balance, income or transaction history.
Business confidentiality
Payroll, suppliers, treasury movements and commercial relationships should not become a competitor’s dashboard.
Privacy changes what gets published.
Onchain privacy does not remove verification. It allows the network to verify that an action is valid without requiring every financial detail to become public.
| Standard public activity | Privacy-protected activity | |
|---|---|---|
| Wallet address | Visible and linkable across activity | Not exposed as a complete activity trail |
| Amount and asset | Readable on a block explorer | Shielded for supported activity |
| Counterparty | Easy to map over time | Not published as an open relationship graph |
| Verification | The network checks public transaction data | The network checks a cryptographic proof |
How Fiber puts privacy into practice.
Fiber uses zero-knowledge proofs to protect supported financial activity without publishing the underlying details. Privacy applies within Fiber's supported private flow. Public blockchains and integrated services retain their own visibility and data practices.
Your money should not become a public profile.
Use a private, non-custodial wallet designed to protect supported financial activity.