What a wallet does all day
A wallet does not hold coins. It asks servers about addresses: what is the balance, what happened, what does this fee cost. Each of those questions travels with your IP address.
Your IP points to your internet connection, and often to a city. Your addresses point to everything you have ever received and spent on a public blockchain. A server that sees both in one log line can connect them.
A direct connection
- Every server sees your IP address.
- One IP asking about three addresses ties them to each other, and to you.
- Your internet provider sees the hosts you reach.
Kyro over Tor
- Servers see the IP of a Tor exit relay, not yours.
- Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana never share a circuit, so the circuit does not link your lookups.
- Your internet provider sees only that you use Tor.
The linking problem
The worse part is what happens across addresses. Ask about your Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana addresses from one IP, and you have told that server they belong together. Keeping separate accounts achieves little if a single connection asks about all of them.
Why does it matter? Holders of crypto are targets. A record that ties a home connection to a balance is worth protecting, whatever the size of the balance.
What Tor changes
Tor sends your traffic through three relays. The first sees your IP but not the destination. The last sees the destination but not you. The server sees a Tor exit relay.
Kyro builds this in. It adds three things that matter for a wallet:
- On by default. A privacy setting you forget to enable protects nobody.
- Separate circuits. Each blockchain family has its own, so the circuit does not link your lookups.
- Fails closed. If Tor is down, requests fail. A silent fallback to a direct connection would expose you at the worst moment.
What Tor does not change
- The server you query still sees the addresses you ask about. Tor hides who is asking, not what is asked.
- Blockchains stay public. Tor protects your connection, not the transaction record.
- Swap providers see the order they process.
- Your own habits still count: reusing addresses or sending between your accounts links them on chain.
For the strongest setup, combine Tor with your own node, so no third party sees your addresses at all. For a coin built around private transfers, see Monero in Kyro.