Introduction
Intelena is a private trading layer on Robinhood Chain. You deposit ETH, USDG, or Robinhood stock tokens into a shielded pool, and from then on your balances, orders, and trade history are not visible on public explorers.
Dark routing on Robinhood Chain: trade on the market's intel without leaking yours.
The problem
On a transparent chain, a trade is a broadcast. The moment it lands in the mempool or a block, it hands information to parties whose business is to exploit it:
- Wallet trackers and labelers map addresses to people, funds, and strategies.
- Copy traders mirror positions the instant they're visible.
- MEV bots read pending orders and front-run or sandwich them.
- Stop hunters see resting orders and trigger levels, and push price to them.
The result is a structural asymmetry: the market sees you in full, and you see the market only after everyone else has acted on what you revealed. Tokenized stocks make this sharper — a position in a stock token is a position in a real company, and no traditional brokerage would force that disclosure on a client.
What Intelena does
- Shields your assets into private notes held on your device.
- Crosses your encrypted order against other shielded orders at the oracle midpoint — no public swap, no visible size or counterparty.
- Routes only the unmatched remainder to Uniswap, split into randomized pieces, sent with timing jitter from one-time addresses.
- Re-shields the proceeds automatically.
Before you sign, every route shows a Leak Score so you can choose between the best price and the least exposure.
Compliance by design
Privacy on Intelena is private toward the public, not opaque toward oversight. Every spend carries a zero-knowledge proof that its funds belong to an approved association set, and scoped viewing keys let you disclose one asset or date range to an auditor without disclosing anything else.
Design principles
| Principle | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Private by default | Nothing is published unless you choose to publish it. |
| Match before you route | The most private trade never reaches a public pool. |
| Measure the leak | Every route is scored for exposure before signature. |
| Provable innocence, selective disclosure | Funds prove they come from an approved set; you prove what you choose, to whom you choose. |
| Never trap funds | Every convenience layer has a direct on-chain exit that needs no third party. |
Continue with How a trade works.