Arcane is a compliance and selective-disclosure platform for privacy-preserving asset applications. It combines two parts:
PartWhat it doesWho uses it
Privacy PoolsExecute private asset movements through an on-chain privacy pool while preserving commitment, nullifier, and proof-verification stateApplication teams, integrators, wallet-connected end users
Auditing PortalIndex privacy-pool audit events, interpret registered contract payloads, and expose scoped disclosure workflowsCompliance teams, auditors, application administrators, organization administrators

Why it exists

Privacy-preserving financial applications need two properties that are usually in tension:
RequirementArcane approach
User transaction privacyTransaction details are represented through commitments, nullifiers, proofs, and encrypted audit payloads instead of public transaction-level disclosure
Compliance reviewAuthorized organizations and auditors can request, approve, review, and report scoped disclosure data through the Auditing Portal
Arcane does not make every private transaction public. It creates a controlled path for selective disclosure when an organization or auditor has the right scope.

Main users

UserResponsibility
Application teamIntegrates the SDK and submits privacy-pool transactions through a Stellar wallet flow
Application administratorManages disclosure case approvals, auditor access, reports, and application-level activity
AuditorRequests disclosure, reviews approved case transactions, and generates reports
Organization administratorManages organization-level users, applications, and administration boundaries

What Arcane provides

CapabilityImplementation area
Private transaction executionSoroban privacy-pool contract, Circom circuits, client SDK
Audit event handoffAuditEncodedDigest event emitted by the Soroban contract
Contract indexingBackend scanner for registered contracts
InterpretationBackend worker that decrypts and normalizes audit payloads
Access controlBackend auth, permissions, application scope, case assignments, and access windows
Disclosure workflowsCase requests, approvals, case review, reports, downloads, and activity logs

How Arcane Works

End-to-end path from a private transaction to an approved disclosure workflow.

Supported Use Cases

Partner-facing scenarios supported by the current platform model.

Architecture Overview

Technical decomposition of the privacy-pool and Auditing Portal domains.