Maintain your edge with
Confidential Assets

Eliminate the trade-off between transparency and confidentiality. Protect your Alpha while preserving regulator access and auditability. Join the waitlist and be first to test and explore on the new Polymesh DevNet.
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Public permissioned network
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Verified onchain identity
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Protocol-level compliance

Confidential trading

Trade without exposing strategies. Counterparties, assets, and transaction amounts are kept private while enabling asset-specific oversight.
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Programmable compliance

Enforce issuer and jurisdiction rules in-protocol: identity claims, eligibility, and asset transfer controls.
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Instant settlement

Reduce counterparty and operational risk with atomic settlement and automated corporate actions.
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The path to adoption

Private markets remain opaque, inefficient, and illiquid. Traditional blockchains expose too much, making institutional participation impractical. Confidential Assets on Polymesh changes this by combining privacy, compliance, and atomic settlement into one protocol. The result: scalable liquidity for private investments without compromising confidentiality.

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Core mechanics of Confidential Assets

Keep strategies and positions private. Hide amounts, balances, and counterparties onchain; permit auditor-only decryption per asset to satisfy oversight.

Confidential trading

Compliance and controls

Meet regulatory expectations with identity, claims, and transfer rules enforced onchain. Use receiver affirmation and pre-affirmation reversibility to reduce error and risk.

Atomic settlement

Remove settlement risk with atomic delivery-versus-payment. Trades finalize instantly or not at all, reducing fails and collateral requirements while improving balance sheet efficiency.

Lifecycle automation

Automate asset lifecycle events onchain. Handle dividends, voting, redemptions, and distributions with precision, lowering operational cost and eliminating reconciliation errors.

What's confidential vs. auditable?

Confidential Assets hides the underlying assets, transaction amounts, and counterparties involved onchain, ensuring trading strategies remain private. Each asset has a designated auditor who can decrypt only that asset's flows. This provides regulators and issuers with targeted transparency without exposing unrelated positions.

Does this work with custodians?

Yes. Confidential Assets works with portfolio and custody models on Polymesh. Custodians can integrate with Polymesh to manage tokenized assets just like traditional securities. They can custody keys, provide reporting, and enforce compliance, while their clients benefit from faster settlement and private trading.

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Do I need onchain identity?

Yes. For asset activity, Polymesh requires a verified onchain identity. This supports compliance with AML/KYC and enables programmable rules around jurisdiction, investor type, and asset eligibility. It's part of why institutions can trust the network.

How it works

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Verify your onchain identity on Polymesh

Every participant interacting with RWAs and other tokenized assets on Polymesh is verified, ensuring only compliant actors can issue or trade.

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Issue or onboard tokenized private assets

Equity, bonds, and funds represented as regulated public or exempt market securities.

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Trade privately with asset-specific auditing where required

Transactions remain confidential, with oversight available only to authorized agents.

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Settle atomically and automate distributions, voting, and events

No failed trades. Settlement and corporate actions are instant and automated.

Begin building with us.

Confidential Assets is open code.

Explore the repo, review our implementation of the DART protocol, and start building with the community bringing privacy to blockchain.