# Shade Network — The Private L2 (Home)
Introducing **Shade Network** — a fully private execution layer where every transaction, contract, and agent action disappears. Privacy isn’t a feature here; it’s the foundation — by design, by default, at every layer.
Public blockchains turned freedom into exposure: identity, strategies, flows, and timing recorded forever.
Shade fixes the root problem. With an **encrypted mempool**, **stealth addresses**, and a **private EVM**, you can transact and build without surveillance, frontrunning, or chain analysis.
This isn’t an L2 with privacy options.\
**Shade is your private L2 — privacy by default, for everything you do.**
### Quick links
* [The Problem](https://docs.shadenetwork.io/the-problem)
* [What Makes Shade Different](https://docs.shadenetwork.io/what-makes-shade-different)
* [Official Links & Anti-Phishing](https://docs.shadenetwork.io/official-links-and-anti-phishing)
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