Confidential vs Stealth on Tari Ootle: what's hidden, and what still leaks

On Tari's Ootle layer, privacy is chosen when you define an asset. This explainer walks through the two privacy layers, confidential and stealth: what each one hides, how it works, and what still leaks. Chapters 0:00 Confidential vs Stealth 0:18 Two layers that stack 0:38 Pedersen commitments 1:02 Bulletproofs+ range proofs 1:24 The watched vault 1:33 Stealth: one-time addresses 1:59 The encrypted payload 2:15 View keys for auditors 2:34 What still leaks 3:07 Which one should you pick? 3:34 Sources and AI disclosure Key points • Confidential hides the amount (Pedersen commitments + Bulletproofs+ range proofs). Funds sit in vaults whose address can still be watched. • Stealth hides the amount and the owner. Funds are UTXOs with one-time keys derived by Diffie-Hellman with the recipient's view key. TARI itself is a stealth resource. • ElGamal viewable balances let a view-key holder read amounts, but a view key can never spend. • Still leaks: fees, revealed inputs/outputs, identity-checked method calls, amount correlation, and the transaction graph. Sources • Ootle docs, Concepts › Privacy: https://ootle.tari.com/concepts/privacy/ • Longer write-up: https://rajeshmullippa-collab.github.io/2026/10/30/tari-ootle-confidential-vs-stealth.html AI disclosure: the voiceover is AI-generated (ElevenLabs), the background images are AI-generated, and the script was written with AI help and checked against the Ootle docs. Diagrams and captions were built in code. Made for the Tari Creator Contest. #Tari #Ootle #Privacy #Crypto #Blockchain