Every Nano transaction is traceable forever on its public ledger — sender, recipient, amount, timing, all of it, for anyone to see, forever. Obscura (OBX) is a privacy cryptocurrency with a non-custodial, trustless atomic swap already live to convert XNO → OBX (and back) — no KYC, no custodian, no install required to try it.
Runs today. No account, no signup, no custodian holding your funds mid-swap.
Non-custodial · trustless · scriptless adaptor-signature swap
Go to the web wallet — it runs in your browser. Nothing to install. Create a wallet in seconds; your keys are generated and encrypted on your own device.
Pick the XNO ⇄ OBX pair and the amount. The swap is scriptless-adaptor-signature based — no bridge, no wrapped token, no middleman holding your coins.
Both sides commit atomically: either the swap completes and you get OBX, or it doesn't happen and your XNO stays yours. There's no step where a custodian could disappear with the funds.
Your OBX balance and future spends hide among a global anonymity set — not a small ring of decoys, the entire coin set. No account was ever created, no ID was ever checked.
The traceability problem, plainly
Take payment in XNO once, and anyone can look up that address and see every payment you've ever received or sent — amounts, timing, and counterparties, permanently. That's how clients, competitors, or randoms end up profiling your income.
Nano's block-lattice makes address reuse the normal case, not an edge case. Link one payment to your identity — a Reddit post, an invoice, an ENS-style handle — and the entire history behind that address is exposed with it.
Fast and feeless doesn't mean private. Anyone can watch your address's balance change in real time. If you just want to hold or spend money without a public ledger tracking it, a transparent chain can't give you that no matter how good the fee structure is.
Once a Nano transaction is confirmed, its trail is permanent — there's no privacy upgrade path on the same ledger. The only way to stop the trail growing is to move value onto a chain designed for privacy from the start.
Not a replacement — a privacy escape hatch
| Property | Nano (XNO) | Obscura (OBX) |
|---|---|---|
| Speed & fees | Fast, feeless — great for payments | Slower, proof-based — trades speed for privacy on purpose |
| Ledger visibility | Fully public and permanent — sender, recipient, amount, timing | Amounts and recipients hidden; spends hide in a global anonymity set |
| Address reuse risk | Common — one doxx exposes full history on that address | No address reuse leak — sender/recipient unlinkability is cryptographic |
| Moving between them | Trustless atomic swap, live today — no custodian, no KYC, no bridge | |
Short answers
No. The web wallet runs entirely in your browser — there's no signup, no email, no ID check. Your keys are generated and encrypted on your own device.
Nobody. It's a trustless scriptless-adaptor-signature atomic swap: your XNO and your counterparty's OBX either both move, or neither does. There is no custodian, escrow account, or bridge contract that can freeze or run off with funds mid-swap.
No — this isn't an all-or-nothing choice. Keep using Nano for what it's good at (fast, feeless, everyday transfers), and swap into Obscura for the specific transactions or balances where you want privacy.
Both work. The hosted web wallet needs nothing installed — good for trying it out. For full privacy (your own node observing your own requests instead of a shared operator's), download the desktop app, which runs your own node with Tor on by default.
A privacy cryptocurrency where every spend hides among the entire coin set via a class-group accumulator — no decoys, no trusted setup, and a constant-size proof per transaction. See the whitepaper for the full construction.
Non-custodial, trustless, no KYC — try the swap in your browser right now.