ring ring. its out. well, first off, im not part of the @PlasmaFDN team ( but yeah, i wish, haha). im but a lowly researcher geeking out and helping. @PlasmaFDN's documentation on shielded transactions is sparse, offering limited implementation details, which motivates our design to enhance its privacy-preserving capabilities. this inspired me to put out my own research paper on how they can implement that. Our solution introduces a smart-contract-based shielded pool for USD₮, enabling users to deposit funds, perform private transfers that obscure sender, recipient, and amount, and optionally withdraw. To implement this shielded pool, we propose using zero-knowledge proof systems, specifically zk-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge). so yeah, it may be filled with some errors; expect that (im not too smart and open to correction) to read the paper, i published it on my blog: (sadly, im too broke to afford X premium+) link: this paper is an open-source contribution to @PlasmaFDN to help them in designing the real shielded transaction system. its 13 pages. this is v1