Privacy in finance
should be the default.
XELIS Vault exists because every transparent ledger — Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain — has turned into a surveillance machine. Your salary, your trades, your loans, your donations: all visible to anyone with a block explorer and a few hours to spare. Front-running bots read your intent before your transaction confirms. Chain analytics firms sell your wallet history to employers, insurers, and governments. This is not the future we want. XELIS Vault is a confidential financial platform where balances, transactions, and positions are encrypted by default — not as an add-on, but as a property of the chain itself.
Team
Distributed, anonymous, GitHub-verified. We let the code speak.
The XELIS Vault team is anonymous by design — the same privacy principles that drive the protocol apply to the people building it. Identity is verified through GitHub commit history and on-chain PGP signatures, not through doxxing. Every contributor is a XELIS community member first. The founding team holds 10% of VLT supply (1,000,000 VLT total) split into 5% vesting (500k VLT, 4y vest, 1y cliff via FounderVesting) and 5% ongoing (500k VLT, 10y via FeeDistributor), transparently encoded on-chain at deployment.
Verify on GitHub ↗Open source philosophy
Four non-negotiable principles.
All code is MIT-licensed
Every contract, every script, every line of infrastructure is open source under the MIT license. Fork it, audit it, build on it, compete with it. We do not believe in source-available or BSL licenses for critical financial infrastructure.
All decisions are made on-chain
Parameter changes, new oracle feeds, treasury allocations, and guardian elections all pass through the Governor contract with a 48-hour Timelock. If it is not on-chain, it is not a decision — it is a suggestion.
All development is public
Every commit, every issue, every internal audit finding is on GitHub. The four critical vulnerabilities that delayed the testnet are public. We do not hide mistakes — we publish them so the next team does not repeat them.
No VC funding, no presale
XELIS Vault has no venture investors and no pre-sale to selected friends. The founding team holds 10% total (5% vesting = 500,000 VLT over 4y with 1y cliff, plus 5% ongoing = 500,000 VLT over 10y from FeeDistributor), transparently disclosed on-chain at deployment. The remaining 90% is distributed through oracle rewards (55%), chat relayer rewards (10%), DEX liquidity (10%), treasury (5%), community airdrops (7%), protocol reserve (2%), and bug bounty (1%).
Partnerships
We partner with builders, not VCs.
XELIS Foundation
XELIS Vault is built on the XELIS BlockDAG. We work closely with the core team on protocol-level features that benefit privacy applications.
xelis.io ↗External audit firm
Q3 2026. Candidates: Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, Hacken. Final selection is subject to a community vote. 100,000 VLT budget allocated.
Contact
Pick the right inbox. We reply within 48 hours.
Thank you for believing in privacy.
The testnet launches August 30, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. We will see you there.