What Privacy Features Do Quantum-Resistant Wallets Have?

Most cryptocurrency privacy is a single switch: everything hidden, or everything public. SynX rejects that binary. It is a dual-tier chain — transparent by default, shadow on demand — and every privacy mechanism it ships is built on post-quantum primitives instead of the elliptic-curve math that quantum computers will eventually unmake.

Tier One: Transparent

Ordinary SynX sends are visible on the block explorer. Amount, sender, recipient — recorded in the open, exactly like Bitcoin. That is the default, and it is stated plainly rather than dressed up. A chain that lies about what its own explorer shows is a chain you cannot audit.

Tier Two: Shadow

A shadow send is Kyber-768 encrypted — NIST FIPS 203 ML-KEM — and routed through a rotating burner address: a fresh address for that transaction, never reused. The relay daemon masks private addresses before the explorer ever receives them, so the explorer never holds the naked data in the first place. Query a shadow balance or transaction list and the API answers "Private." The address renders masked. The record carries privacy_tier: shadow.

The Ephemeral View Key

Zcash hands you a view key that is permanent and transferable. Disclose once and you have granted lifetime surveillance — to the recipient, and to whoever they pass it to afterward. SynX issues an expiring capability instead of a permanent identity grant.

• Scoped to one transaction. Not an account. Not a history. One.
• Thirty minutes, then gone. Not revoked, not archived — there is no record left to subpoena.
• Never written to disk. It exists only in volatile memory across the Wildlands node mesh.
• Two factors, or nothing. Disclosure requires the transaction hash and the view key. Neither alone reveals anything.
• Amount only. Even holding both, what surfaces is a number — never the graph. Not who paid whom, not balances, not history. The identity layer is never assembled in the first place.

Addresses exist as correlation-resistant matched hashes rather than naked strings, so a dumped memory image is not an understood one.

What SynX Deliberately Does Not Have

No zk-SNARKs. No ring signatures. No mixer, tumbler, or CoinJoin. Those are other chains' answers, and every one of them rests on elliptic-curve or pairing-based assumptions that Shor's algorithm dissolves — which means their privacy is not permanent, only early. Rotating burner addresses are protocol-native, not post-hoc laundering. There is no service to sanction and no switch to flip off.

Burns Stay Public

Burns are verifiable by anyone on the Pyre Altar page of the explorer. The chain proves a burn happened without knowing who made it. Public supply math, private participants — not a contradiction, a design.

Zero KYC. No telemetry; the wallet speaks only to its own daemon. And the threat model is not a nosy neighbor. It is the chain-analysis industry and the agentic-AI surveillance era now reading every public ledger at machine speed, forever.