Create your account

An Opaque account is derived from your wallet. There is nothing to register and nothing to remember.

Connect

1. Open the app and choose Connect a wallet. Any Solana wallet that follows the Wallet Standard works: Phantom, Solflare, Backpack and the like.
2. Approve the connection in your wallet.
3. Sign the message Opaque shielded account. The signature is the seed of your private keys.

The same wallet signing the same message always produces the same account. Sign it again on another device and you are looking at the same balances.

What the signature makes

• A spending key, which is the only thing that can move your notes.
• A viewing key, which lets your device find and read notes sent to you.
• Your shielded address, 64 bytes in base58, shown in the header. This is what you give to people who want to pay you. It is longer than a Solana address and is not one.

None of these leave your device, and none are stored. Close the tab and they are gone; sign again and they are back.

Keep the message honest

The app asks for exactly one signature, with the text shown in your wallet. Never sign that message on another site: whoever gets the signature gets the account.

Next

Shield a position to give the account something to hold.