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# PIVY's Practical Privacy

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**PIVY is built for practical privacy, not illicit activity**. 

Our mission is to help honest crypto users regain the basic financial privacy they deserve, not to serve criminals, unethical hackers, or money laundering schemes.
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In this section, you'll understand what values PIVY provides.

## What PIVY Provides

<table><thead><tr><th width="210.73046875">Feature</th><th>The PIVY Benefit</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Stealth Addresses</td><td>We ensure every payment goes to a fresh, one-time address. This prevents outsiders from easily linking you to your transactions, giving you meaningful privacy for everyday use.</td></tr><tr><td>Unlinkability</td><td>Your transaction history is broken up on the blockchain, keeping your activity smooth, simple, and private.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## What PIVY Doesn't Provide

<table><thead><tr><th width="212.1484375">Principle</th><th>The Compliance Benefit</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>No Mixing Funds</td><td><strong>Practical privacy means zero sketchiness.</strong> PIVY keeps your funds separate, never mixing them with others. This means your transactions stay clean, clear, and easy to keep compliant.</td></tr><tr><td>No Holding Users' Funds</td><td>PIVY is non-custodial. We never hold or access your private keys or funds. This eliminate the legal and security risks associated with custodial services.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Traceability

* Stealth addresses don’t erase history, everything stays on-chain and transactions can still be traced back if needed.
* That’s intentional: it lets you disclose fund origins to trusted parties (tax folks, auditors) when ***required***.

**If you're still wondering if PIVY actually gives you better privacy, think about this.**

***Manually linking*** your stealth addresses back to your main wallet is not instant. It requires significant, long-term effort from an attacker.

PIVY gives you a powerful defense by creating complexity: To link your activity, an attacker would need to track multiple incoming stealth addresses, monitor them over time, and successfully identify a pattern of withdrawals to a known, non-stealth main wallet address.

Using PIVY-to-PIVY (Pi2Pi, as to not get mixed with peer-to-peer) transactions further increases unlinkability, as the funds keeps going to a stealth address.

So, **unless you consent,** your privacy is protected by time and complexity.

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