Overview
- Polygon Wallet now offers a “Privately Send” option for USDC and USDT that routes payments through Hinkal’s shielded pool, with the feature going live Tuesday.
- Transfers use zero-knowledge proofs that verify the payment while hiding the sender, recipient, and amount from public blockchain records.
- Each payment runs a Know Your Transaction screen before it executes, and users can export audit files for tax offices or regulators on request.
- Polygon says businesses need “operational privacy” to move real payment flows, and it is building a payments stack as it pursues U.S. regulatory status and up to $100 million in funding.
- Stablecoin use on Polygon has been rising, with a $3.6 billion market cap on April 10, as other players push payments and privacy features like Aptos’s Confidential APT and Western Union’s USD stablecoin on Solana.