How it works

Private pay on Robinhood Chain

Yes, Solana-style “pay like public send” is possible on RH. Gloam is building that path with vault proofs + receive tags + on-chain memos.

Chain: RH EVM
Direct: Receive tag
Discovery: Memo + scan
Also: Private trade

Why Solana private send “feels” like public send

Wallets like Solflare hide the hard parts. You still pick a recipient and an amount, under the hood they use a shielded program, encryption, and discovery so you are not pasting raw note secrets. The UI matches public send; the settlement is private.

Robinhood Chain is EVM, not Solana. There is no built-in Elusiv/Light-style stack. That does not mean the pattern is impossible, it means the app + contracts must implement it (which is what Gloam is).

Gloam private pay (current)

Step 1Receive tagRecipient publishes gloamr1… (shielded identity, not a public 0x transfer target).

Step 2Vault transfer proofSender spends a vault note → payment + change. Chain does not see Alice→Bob amount.

Step 3Encrypted packageTicket sealed to their tag (gloam2t). Optional: post as on-chain memo for Scan inbox.

Step 4ClaimRecipient opens it with their tag key (or the claim link) and saves the note in their browser.

Step 5SecureThe app moves it straight away into a fresh note only the recipient knows. From then on the sender cannot take it back.

Claim links you send

No Gloam address? Pick Claim link under To and you get a link that holds the payment instead. Every one you send is kept under Sent links, below the Send privately form, encrypted in that browser like your balance. Each shows whether its money has moved yet. Copy a code again, or take back one nobody used into your own private balance. Taking back is a claim that is then secured (below), so once that move lands the link stops working. Until it lands, whoever has the link can still claim it first.

Why a claim is secured

A Gloam payment is a note in the vault, and whoever knows its secret can spend it. The sender made that secret, so until the recipient moves the money the sender could still spend it back. Claiming in the app does two things: it saves the payment, then moves the whole amount into a fresh note whose secret only the recipient's browser knows (a private transfer with a zero change note). Once that lands, the payment is final.

One step. Claim and secure happen together. With the relay on there is no wallet prompt and no gas; with it off, the wallet signs and shows as the sender of that one private transfer.
If it cannot finish (a closed wallet prompt, a dropped connection), the payment stays in the balance marked not secured yet, and Move offers to secure it. Nothing is lost: the new note is saved before anything is sent.
If the sender spends it first, the move cannot land and the claim is dropped. Ask them to send it again.
Agents get the same guarantee from the SDK's sweep: a payee calls settleGloamPayment and serves only once it is final.

Is RH “not able” to do Solana-style private send?

No. EVM supports the same ingredients: Merkle notes, ZK proofs, encrypted memos, client scan. Solana’s edge today is product integration in wallets, not magic of the SVM.

Replicating Zcash on Robinhood with Gloam?

Directionally yes; literally cloning Zcash no.

Zcash = private ZEC (its own asset + full shielded protocol).
Gloam = private rails for RH stock tokens / RWA / ETH, hold, private pay, and private trade (testnet live) next to open settlement on the same chain RH cares about.

What still gates a full Zcash-class experience:

Production trusted setup (not dev zkeys)
Stronger public-input privacy on trade rates / pair
Anonymity set / usage
Audit before real money

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