What is Solana Privacy Scanner?

Solana Privacy Scanner is a developer tool that analyzes Solana wallets, transactions, or programs using public on-chain data and produces a deterministic privacy risk report based on well-defined heuristics.

What this is

• A scanner and diagnostic tool
• A measurement of privacy exposure, not proof of deanonymization
• A developer library with CLI and minimal web UI wrappers

Important

This tool does not deanonymize users. It surfaces privacy risk signals that already exist due to public blockchain data.

Core Concept

Public Solana activity enables tracking, clustering, labeling, and profiling.

Solana Privacy Scanner makes that exposure explicit, visible, and explainable.

Why This Matters

Blockchain privacy is often misunderstood. Many users believe public blockchains provide anonymity when they actually provide:

• Pseudonymity - addresses are not directly linked to names
• Transparency - all transactions are public forever
• Traceability - fund flows can be tracked

This tool helps developers and users understand their actual privacy exposure.

Supported Scan Targets

• Wallet address - Analyze a user's transaction history and patterns
• Transaction signature - Deep dive into a single transaction
• Program ID - Analyze interactions with a specific program

Data Sources

All analysis is based on standard Solana RPC calls:

• getSignaturesForAddress
• getTransaction
• getTokenAccountsByOwner
• getProgramAccounts
• Transaction metadata
• Instruction data
• Block times

No zero-knowledge systems. No cryptography. No off-chain private data.

Everything the scanner sees is already publicly visible on the blockchain.

Output

A deterministic privacy risk report containing:

• Overall privacy risk score (LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH)
• Individual risk signals with:
  • Reason
  • Evidence
  • Why it matters
  • Mitigation guidance
• Human-readable text output
• Machine-readable JSON output

Intended Use

• Developer diagnostics
• Education about mass financial surveillance
• Privacy-aware application development
• CI / automated analysis

Project Philosophy

This tool is built on principles of:

• Transparency - All heuristics are documented and open source
• Honesty - No overclaiming, clear about limitations
• Education - Help users understand privacy, not scare them
• Determinism - Same input always produces same output
• Responsibility - This is for awareness, not surveillance