ERC-5564: Stealth Addresses
- Original title
- Stealth Addresses
- Creators
- Toni Wahrstätter, Matt Solomon, Ben DiFrancesco, Vitalik Buterin
- Publication
- Publication date unknown
- Level
- Unspecified
- Validity
- Validity not assessed
- Source status
- Availability not verified
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Why read
- Useful for separating payment discovery, viewing keys and spending keys.(editorial selection)
Editorial reading note
The checked portions are Abstract; Specification/Definitions in the pinned version. The original title is Stealth Addresses.
A sender can non-interactively generate a stealth address accessible only to its recipient. The specification separates spending and viewing keys, defines a public-key stealth meta-address, and uses a singleton contract for discovery information; its first scheme uses secp256k1. Trace payment discovery and spending keys separately. The address mechanism alone does not establish end-to-end anonymity for an application.
Reading level: spec_text; only the sections above were checked. Pinned version: 90b1b4f10634290c1e227d700554065c755f0816 (https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/blob/90b1b4f10634290c1e227d700554065c755f0816/ERCS/erc-5564.md). These notes explain normative requirements; they are not a full reading, implementation verification or security audit and do not establish implementation compliance.
Editorial review: Nov 2, 2026 · Machine-assisted editorial text, reviewed by an editor.
Selection basis
Useful for separating payment discovery, viewing keys and spending keys.
Editorial selection is not community consensus, author endorsement, or a credibility probability.