On Ethereum alone, over 89% of active wallets have been deanonymized by analytics firms (e.g. Arkham), exchanges, and AI-driven chain heuristics.
Even “private transactions” on public chains leak metadata:
gas timing
nonce increments
calldata shape
recipient patterns
mempool sniffing
Research shows 42% of TornadoCash users were re-identified from metadata alone. Shade’s encrypted mempool eliminates this entire attack surface.
MEV bots extracted over $1.1B in 2024 by front-running, sandwiching, and predicting user activity.
They’re not “participants.” They’re predators — and public blockchains feed them everything they need.
Shade fixes the problem at its root: we remove the visibility.
Wallet clustering tools can now connect:
your ENS
your CEX withdrawals
your social profiles
your friends’ wallets
your previous addresses
Up to 72% accuracy according to Chainalysis. You might think you’re anonymous. You’re not.
Shade restores what crypto lost: true unlinkability.
On Ethereum, every internal detail of a contract is visible:
variables
mappings
storage updates
execution paths
intermediate states
In a transparent execution environment, your logic becomes alpha for your opponents.
Shade introduces the world’s first private EVM, where contract state, storage, and execution are completely invisible.
The moment your wallet is linked, your history becomes searchable forever.
Timing, flows, and behavior patterns are enough to reconstruct intent.
MEV thrives because visibility is total.
