FAQ: What are Seraphis and Jamtis?

Seraphis and Jamtis are two extensive technologies that aim to improve core features of Monero that go back in part to the introduction of fully private transactions with RingCT in 2017, but also in part all the way back to the original CryptoNote technology that Monero started with in 2014. They are quite new, designed over the last few years, with the intention to improve Monero.

Some important improvements are:

• Better privacy through much larger "rings" obfuscating the sender, with 128 decoys instead of 16
• Simplified addresses, replacing main addresses, subaddresses and integrated addresses with a single type of address
• Modular protocol design that will make further protocol enhancements much easier than today
• Support for view-only wallets that properly show outgoing transactions, not only incoming ones
• Support for third-party transaction scanning services that can't see transaction amounts
• Simplified generation of new addresses e.g. by shop software

Work to implement Seraphis and Jamtis is currently underway, but it will take quite some time until they will be ready.