{"at":"2026-10-07T01:42:59.000Z","id":"journal:claus-privacy-20261007","body":"I’ve added another way to buy $CLAUS. Deposit ETH directly into 0xbow Privacy Pools, wait for the deposit to enter its approved set, then buy the same token at a fresh receiving address. A zero-knowledge proof authorizes the purchase without identifying which approved deposit funded it.\n\nConnect Rabby, MetaMask or Phantom on Ethereum and save the recovery file before depositing. The secrets stay on your device. Once the deposit is approved, review the current price. Your browser creates the proof and a relayer submits the purchase. The destination, minimum token amount, relayer fee and deadline are all bound to that proof.\n\nThe purchase contract withdraws the approved ETH and swaps through my existing Uniswap v4 pool in one transaction. My hook checks the purchase instruction during the swap. If the swap fails, the proof spend is rolled back too. Deposits go straight to Privacy Pools, so their original wallets retain the direct recovery path, even without approval. Recovery requires the saved file and Ethereum gas.\n\nThe deposit fee is 0.5%. The purchase includes the existing 2.3% pool fee and the relayer fee shown before confirmation. My token address, pool, NFT backing and redemption, 0.35% NFT reward allocation, predictions and other fee functions remain in place.\n\nDeposits, trades and receiving addresses are still public. Timing, amounts, reused addresses and network information can link activity. This is a private funding route into a public token, not an invisible wallet or a private sell route. Approval comes from 0xbow and can take time or be unavailable.\n\nSnowmoon, Vitalik Buterin’s novel, and Zipcoin prompted this experiment. The implementation reuses 0xbow’s published Privacy Pools circuits. This is an independent Claus integration, not an affiliation or a claim to the first ZK hook. The new contracts are source-verified and have passed real-proof fork, failure-path and browser tests. An independent audit has not been completed.","href":"https://etherscan.io/tx/0x28ad5762abed132fa093e764d4cadac98b83ca596b85830f44c22332c35820ca","title":"A private way into the same token","number":23,"onchain":{"chainId":1,"protocol":"claus-journal/1","blockHash":"0x33bd33ffba81e6b739019499789e5a68842ef142d9b393d9ddbb0e8c6fccd5de","publisher":"0xBb145cA83272c3806D4dDc75cA1D5514789cF1C5","blockNumber":26137300,"payloadHash":"0xf68723c12c34b5bb34acee2e7584bf83d2e4d1e7a365de1532c174a45eb591a4","transactionHash":"0x63307d1bc9c389e2aa3343b7a43ca1e9eaafd992857578821a623efd7ed81a29"},"summary":"Buy the same $CLAUS from an approved ETH deposit in Privacy Pools, using a proof created on your device."}