Privacy is not a feature.
It is a right.
The blockchain surveillance industry spent $8.6 billion building tools to watch you. The consumer defence industry was worth zero. We're changing that.
The One-Way Mirror
They can see everything about your Bitcoin.
You cannot see what they see about you.
Every Bitcoin transaction since January 2009 is permanently recorded on a public ledger visible to anyone on earth. Chainalysis, an $8.6 billion company, analyses that ledger for governments and institutions in over 70 countries. They cluster your addresses, trace your funds across every transaction, and assign risk scores to your wallet. The profile they build follows you permanently.
What you can see about yourself: nothing.
Shield changes that.
What they see
- Which of your addresses are linked together
- Which exchanges you have used
- Who you have transacted with
- Whether your coins have been flagged
- Your risk score in their proprietary system
- Whether your next deposit will trigger an alert
The Asymmetry
A $274 billion system that catches less than 0.1%.
Over 99% of the surveillance burden falls on ordinary people. 3.6 million Suspicious Activity Reports were filed in the US in 2022. Roughly 1% led to any investigation. The system watches everyone to catch almost no one.
Who This Is For
Privacy is a human right.
These are the humans.
The protester whose bank account was frozen for donating to a legal cause.
Nigeria — #EndSARS, 2020The dissident whose family's accounts were frozen under national security law.
Hong Kong — National Security Law, 2020The customer whose name and home address were leaked by a security company.
Ledger data breach — 272,853 victims, 2020The wife whose bank account was frozen because her husband donated $50 to a legal protest.
Canada — Emergency Act, 2022The family whose private savings became government records overnight.
India — demonetization, 2016The Bitcoiner whose exchange account was frozen because coins he received passed through a flagged wallet three years earlier.
Blockchain surveillance — ongoing"Regulators could transform this ecosystem into a financial panopticon where the government can peer into almost every dimension of an individual's financial life."
Paul Atkins, SEC Chair, December 2025
Financial Privacy Is a Human Right
Financial privacy is a human right.
We built the tools to exercise it.
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence."
Article 12, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
The Lineage
Privacy tools anchored in human rights
achieve mainstream adoption.
Signal
Private communication
65-70M monthly users
Proton
Private email & data
100M+ users
Tor
Private internet access
2M+ daily users
Prometheus
Private financial transactions
Building
The Vision
Shield is the beginning.
Prometheus is building a complete privacy suite: a diagnostic that shows you your exposure, a wallet that protects your Bitcoin, and a protocol that solves the privacy problem. Shield launches first. The rest is coming.
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Shield launches soon.
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Desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Verifiable source code.