Resolution without
exposure.
We analyze public ledgers to resolve intent, not to hoard personal identity. Our doctrine is built on the principle of analytical necessity.
Read this page when legal or procurement needs the public explanation of how ChainÆther limits identity handling.
Check whether the planned workflow depends on public-ledger analysis, client-supplied evidence, or downstream reporting boundaries.
If counsel needs matter-specific retention or disclosure answers, carry this doctrine into intake with the live scenario attached.
- Heuristic isolationActive
- Non-persistent identifiersEnforced
- Legal trigger rulesv2.1
- EncryptionTLS in transit
The Core Doctrine
ChainÆther's privacy model is predicated on the Structural Privacy paradigm. In the context of public blockchains, privacy is often conflated with anonymity. We recognize that while transaction data is immutable and public, the context surrounding that data is a matter of strategic security.
Behavioral Over Identity
We do not ingest, store, or resolve off-chain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as legal names, physical addresses, or social security numbers into our global resolution graph. Instead, we map "Entities": behavioral clusters that represent a single acting force on the ledger. This allows investigators to track funds and assess risk without exposing individuals to unnecessary surveillance.
Ephemeral Resolution Environment
When an analyst performs a deep trace, the correlation data is processed within a Volatile Memory Cluster (VMC). These clusters are non-persistent; once the investigative session is terminated, the specific correlation logic used to resolve that case is purged from our active compute layer, ensuring no long-term "shadow profiles" are generated.
Deterministic Attribution Heuristics
Attribution is a liability. ChainÆther employs a mandatory Dual-Verifier Heuristic. For an entity to be labeled (for example, Exchange X or Lazarus Group Segment), it must pass through two independent algorithmic filters: one based on liquidity flow patterns and another on temporal interaction signatures. If confidence is not sufficiently high, the label is suppressed in the public UI.
ZERO-KNOWLEDGE TRACING
ChainÆther is exploring ZK-Tracing modules intended to let users prove a wallet is not associated with a high-risk cluster (sanctions, theft) without revealing the wallet's transaction history to the system.
VPC ISOLATION
Enterprise instances are deployed within dedicated Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). This ensures that an organization's internal Watchlists and private annotations never touch the global ChainÆther index.
Website & intake data
The structural-privacy tenets above govern our analytical product and its resolution graph. They are separate from the information you choose to send us through this website. When you submit the intake form, we collect the details you provide: your name, work email, the inquiry type you select, the scope you describe, and which page referred you.
That submission is transmitted over an encrypted (TLS) connection and routed to our internal operations system through a monitored delivery channel. Accepted submissions may be retained in an access-controlled archive, and failed deliveries are recorded so we can follow up. We use this information only to respond to your inquiry and to manage the resulting engagement.
We retain intake data only for as long as needed to respond and to meet legal or record-keeping obligations, after which it is deleted. To access, correct, or delete the information you have sent us, use the intake form and note that it is a data request, and we will action it.
Operational Obligations
We align our privacy operations with the Privacy by Design framework (ISO 31700-1). This means that every feature, from our Visual Graph to our API Export, is evaluated for its impact on data minimization before a single line of code is committed.
ChainÆther can only provide structural on-chain analysis in response to a regulatory request. Because our resolution graph does not store off-chain PII, we are technologically incapable of resolving pseudonyms to legal identities from on-chain data alone, unless that data was provided by the user inside their private environment. This is separate from the contact details you send us through this website, which are covered under Website & intake data above.