what's Curvy Protocol?

Curvy Protocol is a privacy-first infrastructure layer for cryptocurrency payments, enabling secure, fast, and compliant transactions across Ethereum and Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum, Starknet, and Gnosis Chain. It leverages stealth address technology based on elliptic curve pairings to generate one-time recipient addresses, ensuring senders and receivers remain unlinkable on public blockchains. Users interact via human-readable usernames (programmable identities), with viewing keys and view tags allowing efficient scanning of ephemeral registries without compromising privacy. The protocol uses cryptographic proofs and a Sparse Merkle Tree to manage private state updates, such as secret notes representing funds. To decentralize proof generation and enhance privacy against centralized provers inferring transaction graphs, Curvy proposes slot-based sequencing with collateral-backed reservations and rate limits to prevent spam, ensuring collision-free on-chain root updates. Designed for regulatory compliance, it supports proofs of entity legitimacy and clean transactions for AI agents and dApps without exposing details.

Curvy Protocol proposes decentralized proving architecture to solve privacy and SMT collisions via slot-based sequencing.