With the launch of Incognitee for Asset Hub Polkadot, DOT holders now have new ways to enhance their privacy and overall account hygiene. This post serves as a practical guide for a common scenario: Let’s assume Edward has previously invested in DOT and holds 100,000 DOT in his HODL account. He als…

[image] brenzi: Wait until acceptable k-anonymity is reached. This basically means, I need to wait until enough other users have shielded some funds?

Awesome work! I played around a bit with it and it works like a charm. Will do my part and shield more DOT to add to the k-anonymity!

Yeah, it’s about unshielding. Only if enough other people have shielded DOT, your unshielding is hidden under k-anonymity. I think a treasury proposal would be cool that gives a small incentive to people to shield their DOT, kickstarting the anonymity pool. It’s not perfect, because we can’t enforc…

“waiting” is not precise. You can observe the shielding and unshielding action in any indexer. Every shielding event is a transfer to this account, every unshielding is a transfer from this account elsewhere: [image] Subscan | AssetHub Polkadot Account Details AssetHub Polkadot Account: …

Any plan with wallet integration? That’s the only way to get users. Treasury incentives wouldn’t work.

Absolutely. For now, you can use Incognitee with Nova’s or Subwallet’s dApp browser or on a desktop using any Polkadot signer extension. We are reaching out to wallet builders for tighter integration and will provide integration guides for the Incognitee API very soon. edit: here’s our wallet inte…

Is privacy based on the use of hardware trusted execution environments and not on ZK proofs? So we should trust the TEE setup?

correct. Incognitee uses Intel SGX, not ZK. By using Incognitee, you trust Intel’s design for integrity and confidentiality of computation. And you benefit from the decentralized and censorship-resistant remote attestation process on Integritee Network .

How can an end-user verify that the code executing in SGX can be trusted?

very good and important question. start by auditing the source code to see if it does what it says, securely audit the build process (Github actions pipeline). We are working on deterministic builds, but so far we can only offer a public third-party build process on GHA. One artifact will referen…

Account hygiene: a practical guide using Incognitee

bkchr January 29, 2025, 7:46pm 2

This basically means, I need to wait until enough other users have shielded some funds?

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