AVNU Paymaster Enables Private Transaction Fees Across Starknet Ecosystem
AVNU Paymaster Enables Private Transaction Fees Across Starknet Ecosystem
🔒 Privacy gap closed
Privacy Enhancement for Starknet Transactions
AVNU has introduced a paymaster solution that addresses a critical privacy gap in blockchain transactions. The issue: transaction fees can reveal the identity of the payer, undermining asset-layer privacy.
Key Features:
- Users can pay transaction fees privately from shielded accounts
- Works across the entire Starknet ecosystem, not limited to AVNU
- Complements existing private transaction and swap capabilities
- Now live on Starknet Mainnet
The paymaster effectively closes a privacy loophole where fee payments could expose user identities, even when using privacy-preserving tools for the underlying transactions.
6/ Privacy at the asset layer breaks if the transaction fee reveals who is paying. The @avnu_fi paymaster closes that gap. Users will soon be able to pay fees privately for any Starknet transaction from their shielded account. This will work across the Starknet ecosystem, not
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