RAILGUN

RAILGUN is a collection of smart contracts that verify zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to make, send or receive transactions without revealing any assets, amounts, or identities. In much the same way, it also allows users to interact with smart contracts, such as those used for DEX trading, yield farming and other dApps (decentralised Apps). Layered on top of this on-chain system is a suite of adapters called Adapt Modules for existing applications on Ethereum that anyone can deploy. Such a system has two fundamental advantages:

1. Firstly, it increases the size and noise of the anonymity pool. All transferring, swapping, lending, borrowing, and in general, transacting with all kinds of decentralised applications greatly increases the throughput and variation of interactions with RAILGUN, making it progressively more difficult to correlate withdrawals from RAILGUN to deposits into RAILGUN. This means the users who have deposited into RAILGUN are able to achieve privacy and anonymity faster than any of the other systems available on-chain.

2. Secondly, it allows users to keep their assets in their original form, without converting to a different token, within the RAILGUN system longer term. True privacy and anonymity is achieved when assets can not only
be privately transacted but also privately stored. With assets in RAILGUN, users can still do everything they can do with assets outside of RAILGUN, reducing the incentive to ever move these assets out. This helps to increasing the size and noise of the anonymity pool, offering a much better level of privacy and anonymity.

By creating an ecosystem where privacy, anonymity, transfers, trades, and any other activity all happen in one place, all participants benefit from an increasingly large and noisy anonymity pool. All users of the system are able to piggyback off the activity of others, increasing their own privacy and anonymity.