Fog Obfuscation

While Sharding and Splitting handle the mechanics of money movement, Fog Obfuscation protects the metadata and network traffic patterns.

The Signal-to-Noise Ratio

On a transparent ledger, silence is suspicious. If a wallet is dormant for months and suddenly executes a complex series of split transactions, it attracts attention. To counter this, Verdant generates "Chaff" or "Fog."

Decoy Traffic

The Fog Layer automatically generates decoy transactions that mimic real user behavior but carry no significant economic value.

• Self-Churning: Shards may occasionally send funds to other Shards within your own identity cluster.

• Dusting: The protocol may generate micro-transactions to random destinations to simulate organic activity.

Temporal Smoothing

Real human behavior is bursty (active during the day, inactive at night). The Fog Layer can smooth out these bursts by queuing non-urgent transactions and executing them during periods of low activity, or conversely, burying urgent transactions during periods of high network congestion to hide them in the crowd.

This creates a "Fog of War" on the blockchain, making it exponentially more difficult for analytical algorithms to distinguish between a genuine transfer and background noise.