About / the studio

A culture of privacy, applied to a public ledger

ZK VEIL is an independent design concept. VEIL Scan is the first product slice: paste a Solana address, read the last 100 public signatures, and see the trail the chain already published. Nothing here asks you to connect a wallet.

What ZK VEIL is

The brand exists to make a blunt fact usable: most people treat a public blockchain like a private bank statement. It is closer to a newspaper. VEIL Scan does not invent new surveillance. It translates fields validators already replicate — account keys, program ids, balance changes, memos, inner instructions, program logs — into claims a person can check against an explorer.

The name is a stance, not a cryptography claim. “Stay opaque” is advice about what you put on a transparent chain, and a pointer to designs that can hide value transfer. The scanner itself is a flashlight pointed at public data.

This is

  • A public-data scanner for Solana addresses
  • A readable exposure report with transaction evidence
  • A privacy debugger for memos, logs, and leftover instruction bytes
  • An educational contrast between transparent ledgers and shielded value transfer

This is not

  • A wallet, custody product, or signing surface
  • A mixer, tumbler, or shielded-transaction bridge
  • A Zcash product, or affiliated with Zcash or ECC
  • A deanonymizer, KYC file, or legal-identity lookup

Who it is for

  • For the holder

    Paste an address you already use in public and see what an observer can already infer: counterparties, programs, amounts, memos, and timing clusters. The point is literacy, not panic.

  • For the builder

    Point the debugger at a fee payer your app uses. If you encoded an invoice, email, or user id into a memo or msg!(), it is already on every explorer. Fix the client. The ledger will not forget the old signatures.

  • For the curious

    Public chains are not private by default. Zero-knowledge proofs can hide sender, recipient, and amount while still proving a transfer is valid. This site explains that contrast. It does not implement it.

Zcash, educational only

Shielded Zcash transfers use zero-knowledge proofs so sender, recipient, and amount can stay out of the clear while the network still checks that notes are valid and values balance. Transparent ZEC does not get that property. Solana transfers, by default, publish those three fields unless an application uses a confidentiality extension or keeps the payload off-chain.

ZK VEIL is not a Zcash wallet, not a viewing-key manager, and not a bridge. We point at z.cash/learn because the first-party explainers are better than a remix. Read the public-vs-ZK notes for the side-by-side.

No token. No wallet connect.

There is no ZK VEIL token, no airdrop, and no on-chain governance coin. The basic scan is free. A later paid developer API — higher limits, CI checks, structured leak webhooks — can be billed in ordinary currency. A token is not required for that model, and this site will not invent one to look like a protocol.

VEIL Scan never uses a wallet adapter. You paste a public key. We never ask for a signature, an approval, or a private key. If a site claiming to be ZK VEIL asks you to connect a wallet, it is not this product.

Independent concept

ZK VEIL is not affiliated with Zcash, the Electric Coin Company, or the Solana Foundation. VEIL Scan reads public Solana data. It is not a wallet, not a mixer, and not a shielded-transaction product.