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Blockchain Glossary

Glossary

Stealth Address

A scheme where the sender derives a one-time receiving address from the recipient's published public keys, so no two payments share an on-chain address.

Stealth addresses let a recipient publish a single static address while every actual payment lands at a different on-chain address only they can identify and spend from. The sender combines the recipient's view and spend public keys with a fresh random scalar; the recipient scans incoming transactions with their view key to find theirs.

Monero uses stealth addresses by default. Ethereum has standardized them via ERC-5564 as an opt-in privacy primitive, complementary to ENS names and account abstraction.