Payments

The base case: move satoshis, privately, final in about a minute.

  Alice ──── shielded transfer ────▶ Bob
             amount hidden
             balances hidden
             final in ~1 min

What you get

• The unit is the satoshi. No volatile gas token between you and your money — every unit is backed by provably burned Bitcoin.
• Privacy by default is available. Shielded transfers hide amounts and balances; a business can pay suppliers without publishing its treasury.
• Finality in about a minute, irreversible — not probabilistic confirmation.

What it is not

Not a Lightning competitor: no channels, no routing, no liquidity management — but also no per-hop capacity limits and no requirement to be online. A plain on-chain payment, private, final in a minute.

Primitives: shielded transfers (Sapling) · BFT finality