🔵Use Cases & Target Users

Who needs Obscurium? Which type of crypto personality are you, and why do you need Obscurium....? Here we explore the types of users who benefit from a cross-chain privacy protocol and other Obscurium services. Obscurium is built for a broad range of crypto participants – basically anyone who values privacy and security in their financial transactions. Below are some key user groups and examples of how they might use Obscurium:

• Everyday Crypto Users: Regular individuals who trade or transfer crypto as part of their daily activities. For example, Alice wants to pay her friend back 0.5 ETH for a shared expense but doesn’t want outsiders to see her main wallet (which holds her savings). Using Obscurium Transfer, she can send the 0.5 ETH from her wallet to her friend’s wallet through the privacy pool. Her friend receives the ETH from Obscurium, and no one can trace it back to Alice’s wallet. Likewise, a person cashing out some crypto to pay a bill might use Pay to avoid having their personal wallet history tied to the payment.

• DeFi Traders and Investors (Whales included): Active traders who execute large swaps can use Obscurium to hide their tracks. Someone who likes to keep their ETH / Stables storage in a single source but also wants to buy tokens privatly can purchase DeFi tokens using his / her main wallet and still have the tokens placed into a new private wallet away from prying eyes. Further, using SPARK, that new wallet can be privatly funded with native gas so sale and return of ETH to the original wallet is fully managed by Obscurium.

• Privacy Coin Enthusiasts: Supporters of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies will appreciate Obscurium as a complementary tool and the potential speculative price appreciation. Or become a 'whale' to participate in the future DAO. Something that can help manage and control the direction of the project and provide a real positive support and influence over and above being a community member.

• Institutional and Corporate Users: Companies or funds dealing in crypto often require privacy for competitive and security reasons. A fund rebalancing its assets might not want to broadcast to the world which tokens it’s buying or selling (to avoid being frontrun or revealing strategy). By using Obscurium, an institution can allocate capital across chains discreetly. Moreover, corporate treasuries using crypto for cross-border transfers can do so without competitors or malicious actors tracking their on-chain payments. For example, if a game development company pays contractors in crypto, using Obscurium Pay ensures that the contractors cannot see the company’s main treasury balance or other payments, nor can anyone else looking at one payout link it to all the others.

• Project Teams and Developers: Blockchain project teams often need to move funds (from fundraising or revenue) between wallets and chains. They also might distribute tokens or payments to team members or partners. Obscurium can help them manage treasury movements privately. A project could fund multiple new wallets (using Spark) for each department or use Transfer to move stablecoins to an exchange for operational costs without alerting the community (which might panic if they see large transfers out of a team wallet). This gives teams flexibility and peace of mind to operate without every action being scrutinized in real-time by the public.

• High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWI): These are individuals who hold significant crypto wealth and are concerned about personal security. If they move funds openly, they could become targets for hacks or unwanted attention. By using Obscurium, they can maintain a low profile. For instance, an HNWI moving crypto to a hardware wallet for cold storage can do so via Obscurium, so that the cold wallet’s address is not linked to their known identity/wallet. If they later need to move funds out, they can again use Obscurium to prevent linking back to them.

• Advanced Users & Privacy Advocates: This group overlaps with some above but includes anyone who is technically savvy and perhaps already using tools like mixers, coinjoins, or alternate privacy solutions. Obscurium offers them another powerful tool, especially bridging a gap that many privacy solutions have: the cross-chain component. An advanced user might use Obscurium in combination with other privacy practices (like VPNs, rotating addresses, etc.) to achieve a very high level of anonymity in all their crypto dealings. They become evangelists of sorts – by demonstrating what’s possible, they encourage mainstream users to also care about privacy.

In all the above cases, the common theme is: Obscurium enables actions that users would already do in crypto, but in a way that those actions do not broadcast information to the world. It’s important to note that privacy is a right and a preference, and it doesn’t imply wrongdoing. Legitimate users have many reasons to keep their financial moves confidential (just as we all expect bank account details to be private). Obscurium’s tools serve these legitimate needs and do so with a focus on simplicity and reliability, so even if you’re not an expert, you can take advantage of privacy features.