ephemeral

Live stats

How the live numbers at /stats are counted, and why we count the whole network instead of our own users.

Live stats counts ERC-5564 activity on Ethereum mainnet, read by your browser from Blockscout's public API:

  • Stealth payments announced: Announcement events from the ERC-5564 Announcer in the last 7 days, newest first, up to 1,000 events.
  • Last 24 hours and the daily chart: the same events in rolling 24-hour windows ending now.
  • Distinct senders and apps: distinct caller values in those events.
  • Meta-addresses registered: StealthMetaAddressSet events from the ERC-6538 Registry in the last 7 days.

Pre-standard contracts (such as Umbra's) and other networks are not counted there; the leak study covers both.

Why not our own users

To count our own payments we would have to tag them: a marker in the metadata, a server that sees them, or a fee to a known address. Each of these is a fingerprint that makes those payments easier to pick out of the crowd. A privacy tool that measures its users this way makes them less private. So we measure the crowd everyone hides in, and we grow it.

Privacy score

How the address check at /score works, what each of its eight signals means, and what it cannot see.

Trust model

Every party that touches a payment, what it learns, and what it cannot do. Including us.

On this page

Why not our own users