# What is a stealth address?

A stealth address is a one-time address created for a single payment, so payments to the same person cannot be linked on-chain, while the sender only needs the receiver’s public address.

## How it works

The receiver publishes one public meta-address. For each payment, the sender combines it with fresh randomness to derive a new address that only the receiver can find and spend from. On-chain, every payment lands on a different address.

## Standards

On Ethereum, ERC-5564 describes a common format for stealth addresses, so wallets can support them the same way.

## In Redacted

One-time receive addresses are coming with the Redacted SDK: unlimited, valid for good and on any connected chain, all landing in one private balance, so every counterparty can get their own.

More: [Build on Redacted](https://redacted.gg/docs/protocol/build-on-redacted.md)

## Related terms

- [Address reuse](https://redacted.gg/glossary/address-reuse.md): Address reuse means receiving more than one payment to the same address. Every payment to it is then linked to all the others, and to everyone who sent them.
- [Viewing key](https://redacted.gg/glossary/viewing-key.md): A viewing key lets someone see the history of a private account without being able to spend from it, for example to show an accountant or an auditor exactly what happened.
- [Linked addresses](https://redacted.gg/glossary/linked-addresses.md): Linked addresses are addresses that chain analysis attributes to the same owner, most often because they were spent together in one Bitcoin transaction. Once one of them is tied to a name, all of them are.

Sources: [ERC-5564: Stealth Addresses](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-5564)
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