How does Kusama Shield work?
Kusama Shield is a zk-powerd multi-asset shielded pool, allowing anyone to deposit any supported token into the shielded pool
User journey
- User generates a deposit transaction, generating a secret, the secrets gets wrapped in Zero Knowledge and takes a small piece of that data as a deposit token.
- Anyone that wants to withdraw the tokens, will connect their browser wallet to
How anonymous is the system?
The privacy score can be measured by the K-anonymity score. Which roughly translates to the more users that deposit and withdraws at the same time, the higher anonymity the systems gets, the goal is to get lost in the crowd and provide a
How does it compare to Monero?
Monero relies on decoy transactions. To calculate the anonymity score of your Monero transaction we need to look at a block explorer, and calculate
\( k = \frac{\text{Total number of decoys in the block}}{\text{Total number of transactions in the block}} \)