Showing Proof of a Payment
A private amount can still be proven. Cyphron treats disclosure as a precise tool: you show one payment to one party, when you decide to, and the rest of your history stays sealed.
What a disclosure proof is
A disclosure proof shows the amount of one transaction to a recipient of your choosing. It is signed with your account key, so the recipient can trust that you did not make it up. You define its scope, and it reveals nothing beyond that.
Typical situations where you would create one:
- Demonstrating to a landlord, employer, or vendor that a particular payment went through
- Responding to a tax authority or auditor about a single transaction
- Satisfying Travel Rule screening with a counterparty institution (see Verifying Identity)
Creating a proof
- Find the payment in your feed and select Generate disclosure.
- Pick what to include: just the amount, or the amount together with its memo.
- Cyphron builds a proof, signed with your key, that attests to what that transaction contained.
- Send the link or exported file to the person who requested it.
No neighboring data is revealed along the way. The proof covers only the transaction you selected and nothing else in your account.
Exporting your full history
When you need records for accounting or a tax return, a single action exports your decrypted history.
- Located under Settings → Export → Transaction History
- Produces CSV or JSON with decrypted amounts, timestamps, counterparties, and memos
- Imports without fuss into common crypto tax tools (Koinly, TokenTax, CoinTracker)
Everything happens on your device: your key decrypts the records and the file is saved locally. Cyphron's infrastructure never receives the decrypted export and has no way to.
What Cyphron cannot do
- Decrypt your transactions on behalf of someone else. Each disclosure starts with you and bears your signature.
- Keep a plaintext copy of your history on its servers.
- Produce a valid disclosure proof without your private key. This is impossible by construction, not a matter of self-restraint, so it holds even under pressure.
How this fits regulation
This is the mechanism that allows Cyphron to stand on the confidentiality-without-anonymity position laid out in Our Regulatory Approach. Your identity is checked when you open the account. Your address is public. Amounts remain sealed until you choose to reveal one, or until lawful process aimed at you, the account holder, requires it.
Read next
- Verifying Identity: how accounts are verified
- Keys and Account Recovery: the key that makes disclosure yours alone