Incognitee: Productive Privacy Sidechains for DOT, KSM and all Substrate- Based Chains

Integritee has demonstrated a working live deployment of its privacy sidechain technology on Paseo.

Try it now at: https://try.incognitee.io

After years of development, our sidechain prototype has been field tested in May 2024 with a public user testing campaign where a total of 200k PAS have been moved by 95 accounts performing 969 shielding and 3291 unshielding actions during two weeks.

With this, Integritee has shown that its prototype delivers on its goal to enable privacy-enhanced transfers of any fungible token in the Polkadot ecosystem. Deploying this in production is the next step and we need support to make this our focus.

We ask the Polkadot treasury for

803’680 CHF ≃ 897’463 USD ≃ 135’527 DOT

to fund remaining activities until launch on Kusama and Polkadot

Resources:

Main Deliverables

Productive Incognitee deployments on Kusama and then Polkadot
Private transfers of limited amounts of DOT, KSM and USDC/USDT
At least one wallet UI implementation (functional preview)

Budget

Internal Costs

Area	FTE	Costs
Core development	2	307’200 CHF
Frontend development	1	64’000 CHF
Devops	1	96’800 CHF
Marketing & Community	2	36’000 CHF
Product & Project Management	1	96’000 CHF
Subtotal Internal Costs		600’000 CHF

External Costs

Area	Costs
Security audit	100’000 CHF
Infrastructure	24’000 CHF
Marketing	20’000 CHF
Legal research	20’000 CHF
Subtotal External Costs	164’000 CHF

Retroactive coverage for work completed

since last approved proposal

Area	Costs
Work done Febr-June 2024	39’680 CHF
Subtotal Retroactive	39’680 CHF

Summary

Area	Total
Subtotal Internal Costs	600’000 CHF
Subtotal External Costs	164’000 CHF
Subtotal Retroactive	39’680 CHF
Total	803’680 CHF

Context

Private Transactions on L2 for all Polkadot Chains | Polkadot Decoded 2023 talk by our CTO brenzi: video recording
Why Privacy Matters And What Integritee Can Do About it | Polkadot Now India talk by our CTO brenzi: video recording

brenzi appeared on AAG to explain this proposal

Integritee Privacy Sidechain

Overview: Integritee has successfully deployed its privacy sidechain technology on Paseo.
User Testing: In May 2024, 95 accounts moved 200k PAS through 969 shielding and 3291 unshielding actions.
Goal: Enable privacy-enhanced transfers of any fungible token in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Funding Request: Seeking 803,680 CHF (≃ 897,463 USD ≃ 135,527 DOT) from the Polkadot treasury.
Main Deliverables:
- Productive deployments on Kusama and Polkadot.
- Private transfers of DOT, KSM, and USDC/USDT.
- At least one wallet UI implementation.
Budget: Includes internal and external costs, plus retroactive coverage for work completed.
Context: Integritee's CTO, brenzi, has presented on the importance of privacy and Integritee's capabilities.
Resources: Full proposal document, initial discussion post, and approved previous funding.