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Stealth Address
A privacy primitive that lets a receiver publish a single 'meta-address' from which senders derive a fresh, unique one-time address for each payment. Only the receiver can scan the chain and find which addresses are theirs; observers see seemingly-random addresses with no link to the meta-address. Default and only mode in Monero since 2014; brought to Ethereum via ERC-5564 in 2023.
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