1. Project introduction

RAILGUN is a collection of smart contracts that verify zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to make, send or receive transactions without revealing any assets, amounts, or identities. (A zero-knowledge proof is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, while avoiding conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of the statement's truth.)

Railgun allows users to interact with smart contracts, such as those used for DEX trading, yield farming and other dApps (decentralised Apps). Layered on top of this on-chain system is a suite of adapters called Adapt Modules for existing applications on Ethereum that anyone can deploy.

By creating an ecosystem where privacy, anonymity, transfers, trades, and any other activity all happen in one place, all participants benefit from an increasingly large and noisy anonymity pool. All users of the system are able to piggyback off the activity of others, increasing their own privacy and anonymity.

2. Token application

RAIL is the governance token for RAILGUN. It can be staked to gain voting rights on upgrades or changes to RAILGUN. In addition, it is also used to pay the fees for protocol services.

3. Team introduction

Official X account: @RAILGUN_Project

Founder: Emmanuel Goldstein

Over a decade of experience in mobile games and in-game monetary economics, Master of Economics. Former government cybersecurity contractor.

CTO: Andrey Kravchenko

Lecturer at Oxford University, CTO of two other startups before joining RAILGUN.