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StarkWare Launches Shadow Accounts on Starknet

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Starknet launched Shadow Accounts, a privacy feature for DeFi activity that gives each app a persistent pseudonymous identity while keeping onchain activity visible. The rollout frames a separation between a main wallet and app-level DeFi use, with balances, transactions, and related calls still公开 onchain.

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Apps can hold DeFi positions under separate, persistent identities with Shadow Accounts.
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Balances, amounts, and contract calls remain public when Shadow Accounts are used.
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Starknet’s Shadow Accounts are presented as a privacy-focused change that still has to fit compliance needs.
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Starknet introduced Shadow Accounts on Tuesday under the STRK20 standard for more private DeFi transactions.
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The feature creates persistent pseudonymous identities for each dApp and lets users switch between public and private modes.
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Shadow Accounts are designed so a user’s main wallet can stay obscured from DeFi activity while transaction data remains visible onchain.

What it means

Users who interact with DeFi on Starknet are the ones most likely to notice this immediately, because their main wallets can be kept separate from app-specific activity while the activity itself stays visible onchain. That means a wallet used across multiple applications no longer has to be the same public identity for each one, even though the associated balances and calls are still disclosed.

In practice, this changes how DeFi activity can be organized on Starknet: applications can track persistent identities tied to their own activity instead of a single publicly linked main wallet. What does not change is that balances, amounts, and contract calls remain public, so the feature adds separation without making the underlying transactions hidden.

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Coverage timeline

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Oct 13 14:42
The Defiant scoop
Breaks the event
+9 h 1 m
Oct 13 23:43
Crypto Briefing context
Its angle: potentially, compliance, unlinkable
+9 h 21 m
Oct 14 00:03
Crypto Economy context
Its angle: 2110049330430411198, implementations, decentralized
+14 h 50 m
Oct 14 05:32
Cointelegraph echo
No new facts: connections, obscure, though
+16 h
Oct 14 06:41
crypto.news echo
No new facts: managing, letting, hide
+21 h 48 m
Oct 14 12:30

Has this happened before?

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