Glossary
What is a stealth address?
A stealth address is a fresh, one-time address generated for a single message so that only the intended recipient can recognize it - hiding who is talking to whom.
On a public blockchain, sending every message to the same address would expose your entire social graph. A stealth address solves this: each message is sent to a unique one-time address that only the recipient can detect and spend from, using a shared secret derived from their keys.
Because two messages to the same person land on two unrelated-looking addresses, an observer scanning the chain sees a scatter of one-off addresses with no way to cluster them into a conversation. PrivaMesh uses stealth addresses so the "who talks to whom" metadata is never written down anywhere.