what's Vanish?
Vanish is a privacy-focused protocol built on the Solana blockchain, designed to enable anonymous trading without leaving traces. It addresses the need for user privacy in decentralized finance by allowing traders to protect their strategies and positions from public visibility on the blockchain. The project emphasizes that true anonymity should be a standard feature in crypto trading ecosystems. At its core, Vanish leverages Solana's high-speed and low-cost infrastructure to implement privacy mechanisms, potentially through techniques like zero-knowledge proofs or shielded transactions, ensuring that trade details remain confidential while maintaining the security and efficiency of the network. This approach aims to empower users, from retail traders to institutions, to operate without exposing their "alpha" or strategies to competitors. As a early-stage project, Vanish has secured pre-seed funding from prominent Solana ecosystem backers, positioning it to develop tools that make privacy a necessity rather than a luxury in the evolving DeFi landscape.
Vanish is a privacy-focused Solana project hiding strategies from front-runners.
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x.com/vanishtradeIncluded in a Twitter thread listing privacy-focused projects on Solana for 2026, described as a tool to hide strategies from front-runners.
Integration with Awaken adds tax compliance capability to private swaps and shielded trades.
An ETH-native version launches with an active incentivized testnet and ETH donation mechanism, allocating WORM tokens to early donors as a separate deployment from the Solana platform.
The platform integrates with Axiom Exchange trading platform.
Integration with Titan_Exchange enables private trading of tokens across both platforms.
The project receives new backing, with the team confirmed as former Colosseum hackathon winners.
Public beta launches, transitioning from private beta with detailed rewards structure: 2.5% of platform fees distributed to SOL holders, 5% of trading fees to active traders, and 20% base referral rate.
The platform builds on Arcium's infrastructure for privacy functionality, confirmed as one of the bigger teams developing on Arcium's testnet.
Private beta is now active with a points system and yield opportunities on idle SOL.
The project secures backing from Solana founder toly and Solana Ventures as a private trading platform.