Introducing Shield: The Private Crypto Wallet
At Provable and Aleo, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it actually means for a blockchain to be private. Not private as a feature, or if you set it up correctly. Private because it behaves the way you expect a financial system to behave.
Shield is a new wallet built on Aleo that allows you to store and move assets privately by default, because the network itself was designed to make that possible.
Here’s why it matters.
The financial industry demands privacy
Over the past year, stablecoins processed roughly $9 trillion in adjusted transaction volume. That's real money moving through real businesses — payroll, cross-border settlements, treasury operations. But most of that activity runs on transparent blockchains. Meaning every balance, counterparty, and transaction is visible to anyone who looks for it.
Privacy isn't a theoretical concern anymore. When your payroll goes on-chain, your employees' salaries become public information. When you manage treasury operations, your competitors get a full view of your financial position. Neither are acceptable.
The regulatory landscape is shifting
For individuals and businesses, this lack of privacy isn't uncomfortable — it's untenable. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently convened a public roundtable on financial surveillance and privacy because it knows that crypto can’t scale into mainstream finance without assurances of confidentiality.
The SEC invited Aleo to moderate and participate — a signal that privacy-native infrastructure is moving from technical concern to regulatory priority. The world is realizing that privacy isn't desirable: it's the difference between a financial system that works and one that doesn’t.
Who Shield is for
Shield is built for people who don’t want to think about privacy every time they transact, but care deeply about its consequences. That includes long-term holders protecting positions, as well as individuals and entities that need to move funds without broadcasting intent or structure.
More broadly, it’s for anyone who believes privacy should be a property of the system, not a behavior you have to maintain perfectly. And it works at any scale, whether you’re moving $100 or $100 million.
How Shield works
Shield uses zero-knowledge technology to encrypt balances, transaction amounts, sender and receiver details, and even gas fees — by default. Giving you the best privacy experience possible from a wallet.
Shield is the first building block of a much more complete privacy solution. We’ve spent the last 18 months laying the foundation to make private payments in blockchain a reality.
Here’s a list of the integrations and partnerships we’ve made:
Stablecoin issuers: Circle xReserve, Paxos Labs
On and Off Ramp: Banxa
Bridges, DEXs, Swaps: HoudiniSwap, Hyperlane, Near Intents
Risk Mitigation & Analytics: TRM Labs
Validators and Staking: Arcane, Blockdaemon, Everstake, Factblock, Figment, HashKey Cloud, The Tie
Third-party Wallets: Dynamic, Blockdaemon MPC, Sodot
The result of this work is a world where you can do the fundamentals of digital finance — moving money on and off-chain, swapping between assets, settling payroll, managing compliance — in total privacy. The way it should be.
Try Shield now
Download Shield at shield.app.
