Sanect onone page.

What is Sanect?

Sanect is a privacy-first Layer 1. It runs the same smart contracts as Ethereum — Solidity, EVM — and adds something Ethereum doesn’t have: optional shielded transfers where the sender is never revealed on-chain.

The name is a portmanteau of Sanctuary and Connect: cryptographic privacy fused with global interoperability.

Chain ID is 7628. The native token is SNCT. You can use it right now from MetaMask, Rabby, or any EVM wallet. Mainnet has been live since 22 June 2026; the public RPC is rpc.sanect.com.

How is it different?

Most blockchains give you one option: every transaction is public. Privacy chains like Zcash and Monero give you privacy but not smart contracts or EVM tooling. Sanect gives you both.

• Dual transfer paths. Every transaction, you choose: send publicly (like Ethereum) or send shielded (sender hidden, amount hidden). Same chain, same wallet, your choice per transaction.
• No trusted setup. Older privacy systems (Groth16) require a ceremony where secret randomness must be destroyed. Sanect uses Barretenberg’s universal SRS — already publicly generated and audited. No toxic waste, no ceremony.
• Use MetaMask — no new wallet. Sign one message with your existing wallet to derive your viewing and spending keys. No new seed phrase, no separate app, no browser extension. Works with MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet, and any EVM wallet.
• 400 ms finality. CometBFT consensus across 50 globally distributed validators. Transactions are final in under half a second — no “confirmations” to wait for, no reorgs.

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What can you do?

Sanect is a full-featured blockchain with seven major products live on mainnet today.

How to get started

You can be using Sanect in under two minutes. All you need is MetaMask (or any EVM wallet).

1. 01
   Add Sanect to your walletClick the button above, or open MetaMask and add a custom network — name sanect · RPC URL https://rpc.sanect.com/ · chain ID 7628 · currency symbol SNCT · block explorer https://scan.sanect.com. Or visit any Sanect dApp — it will prompt MetaMask to add the network automatically.
2. 02
   Get SNCTBridge USDC or USDT from Ethereum via the bridge, then swap for SNCT on the DEX. Or acquire SNCT directly from someone who has it — just share your wallet address.
3. 03
   Make your first transactionSend SNCT to another address, delegate to a validator, register a .snct name, or swap tokens on the DEX. Gas costs are negligible — a transfer is ~0.000021 SNCT.
4. 04
   Try a shielded transferOpen the Shielded panel in the staking dApp. Click “Derive” to generate your viewing key (a one-time MetaMask signature). Shield some SNCT into the pool. Send it privately. Unshield when you want to use it publicly again.

The privacy model

Sanect’s privacy is optional and per-transaction. You decide. Public transfers work exactly like Ethereum. Shielded transfers hide the sender.

1. 01
   ShieldDeposit SNCT into the shielded pool. Your public balance decreases. A cryptographic “note” is created inside the pool, encrypted so only you can see it.
2. 02
   SendTransfer shielded SNCT to another wallet. The sender is never published on-chain. The recipient’s wallet auto-detects the incoming note via their viewing key.
3. 03
   UnshieldWithdraw SNCT from the pool back to a public balance. Ready to use anywhere on-chain again.

A note’s commitment sits in an append-only Merkle tree; a nullifier marks it spent. The proof shows inclusion, ownership and value conservation without revealing which note was used. Four send modes let you choose what stays visible — see the privacy architecture and privacy modes pages.

Under the hood

Tokenomics quick reference

Genesis supply of 1,000,000,000 SNCT split across ten transparent buckets. No VC allocation. Auto-adjusting inflation between 7–20% targets a 67% bonded ratio.

Day 0 realistic circulating supply is approximately 5M SNCT (genesis validator grants only). Everything else is locked, vesting, or held in multisig wallets. Details on the tokenomics page.