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.

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Related terms

Address reuseAddress 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 keyA 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 addressesLinked 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

Updated October 7, 2026. All terms