Shielded funds

Move transparent ZEC into Noir Wallet's shielded balance and understand what shielding protects.

Shielding creates a transaction from your transparent balance into the Zcash shielded pool. Future transactions funded from the shielded balance can provide stronger privacy.

Shield transparent ZEC

Open Shield Funds

The action is available when the selected account has spendable transparent ZEC.

Review the transaction

Confirm the amount being shielded and the network fee.

Approve and wait for confirmation

The transparent source remains visible on-chain, while the resulting shielded funds can be used privately after confirmation.

What shielding does not do

  • It cannot remove a transparent transaction that is already on-chain.
  • It does not protect information shared outside the wallet.
  • It does not make unrelated browser activity anonymous.

For the strongest Zcash privacy, receive to a shielded address and spend from shielded funds whenever the other service supports it.