How Lethe Works

1. Deposit Money into the Pool

• When you shield, you deposit Sol into a private pool on Solana

• This pool is like a slush fund of everyone's deposited funds, making it impossible to directly link your funds to you

2. Your Funds Are Anonymized

• Once your Sol is inside the pool, your funds become unlinkable to your original wallet

• Using ZK technology, the pool smart contract cryptographically keeps track of who owns what

3. Send Privately

• Instead of sending Sol directly from your wallet (which would be traceable on any Solana’s blockchain ledger), you withdraw from the pool however much you want, to any wallet that you want

• You can send the funds to yourself or anyone else without revealing the original source

4. Withdrawal

• The recipient can pull the money from the pool

• Because the withdrawal comes from a private pool instead of your original wallet, no one can easily trace where the money came from

5. Zero-Knowledge Privacy

• We use Zero-Knowledge (ZK) cryptography, which allows transactions to be verified without revealing who made them

• This means that while the blockchain can confirm that a valid withdrawal is happening, it does not expose the identity of the sender