Documentation Index
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Definitions of the core terms used across confidential digital assets and the Ryle platform. Each entry is a single, self-contained definition.
Confidential digital asset
An onchain asset whose balances and transaction amounts are encrypted but remain cryptographically verifiable, letting value move on public chains without exposing sensitive financial activity. See what are confidential digital assets.
Selective disclosure
The ability to reveal specific confidential activity to a chosen party — auditor, regulator, or counterparty — through a scoped, time-bounded, and logged view, without making the data public. See selective disclosure.
Confidential account
The identity that holds and transacts a confidential asset, with an encrypted balance and policy-based permissions. In Ryle, an account is a policy record per identity, not a public balance. See confidential accounts.
Zero-knowledge proof
A cryptographic proof that a statement is true — such as a transaction being valid — without revealing the underlying data. Confidential assets use them to keep amounts private while proving correctness.
Confidential by default, visible by policy, auditable always
Ryle’s operating principle: activity is private unless an explicit policy or disclosure grants visibility, and every privileged action is recorded in an immutable audit log.
Mint
The operation that creates units of a confidential asset, typically against reserves, across the public/confidential boundary.
Redeem
The operation that removes units of a confidential asset from circulation, reconciled against reserves.
Policy
The configuration governing an asset or account — allowlists, role assignments, caps, KYC requirements, and pause flags — that determines who can do what.
Audit log
An immutable, attributed record of every privileged operation (mint, redeem, role change, policy update, disclosure), exportable on demand.
Reserves
The backing held against a confidential asset’s supply; reconciliation proves supply matches reserves without exposing individual balances.
Relayer
Ryle’s service that sponsors and submits transactions, so end users and agents never need to hold the chain’s native gas asset.
White-label wallet
An optional customer-facing wallet partners ship under their own brand, with per-user embedded EVM wallets provisioned automatically.
EVM-compatible chain
A blockchain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (for example Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arc, Plasma, Tempo) where confidential assets settle.
