Frequently Asked Questions

General Questions

Q: Is Verdant Privacy a crypto mixer? No. Verdant Privacy is not a mixer. A mixer pools funds from multiple users into a single smart contract to obfuscate the origin. Verdant uses Identity Sharding, which means you manage your own cluster of sub-wallets (Shards). Your funds never mix with other users' funds. We provide privacy through complexity and behavioral obfuscation, not through commingling assets.

Q: Is my activity completely invisible? No. Verdant operates on the Solana public ledger. All transactions remain on-chain and are technically verifiable. However, Verdant breaks the patterns that analytics firms use to cluster wallets. While the data exists, linking your fragmented identity back to a single human profile becomes exponentially difficult.

Q: Who holds the private keys to my Shards? You do. Verdant is a non-custodial protocol. The private keys for your Personas and Shards are derived from your main wallet signature and are stored encrypted in your local environment. The Verdant team never has access to your keys or your funds.

Q: Can I use Verdant to hide illegal funds? Verdant is designed for privacy, not illicit anonymity. Because the data remains on-chain, forensic analysis can still theoretically trace funds if a valid warrant or sufficient resources are applied. We strongly condemn the use of privacy tools for money laundering or illicit activities.

Technical Questions

Q: What happens if the Verdant website goes down? Because Verdant is a decentralized protocol, the logic lives on the Solana blockchain. Even if the web interface (Command Center) is offline, you can still interact with the smart contracts directly or via community-hosted interfaces to recover your funds.

Q: How much does it cost to use Verdant? During the Testnet phase, the service is free (excluding Solana Devnet gas fees). Upon Mainnet launch, the protocol will charge a small service fee on privacy-routed transactions to incentivize the Shadow Node operators who process the computation.

Q: Why does the process take time? Privacy requires latency. Immediate transactions are easy to track. Verdant introduces "temporal dissonance" (delays) to prevent your outgoing transactions from appearing in the same block as your incoming deposits.