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ChangeNOW Launches Personal Ship to Break Blockchain Handle Monitoring

March 17, 2026

Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, 17th March 2026, Chainwire

Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, March 17th, 2026, Chainwire

Non-custodial alternate platform ChangeNOW has introduced the rollout of Personal Ship, a function designed to forestall direct hyperlinks between sender and recipient addresses on public blockchains.

Built-in into NOW Pockets, Private Send introduces a toggle inside the transaction move. As a substitute of a direct wallet-to-wallet switch, funds are routed by way of ChangeNOW infrastructure earlier than reaching the ultimate tackle. To the recipient, the transaction seems commonplace, whereas the sender’s tackle doesn’t seem within the recipient’s transaction historical past.

Pauline Shangett, CSO at ChangeNOW, says, “Public blockchains have been alleged to be about monetary freedom, not monetary surveillance. But right this moment, analytics companies map billions of addresses into clusters, constructing profiles on strange customers. Personal Ship isn’t about hiding from regulators, it’s about stopping the default publicity of each transfer you make. One click on, and the direct hyperlink between you and the recipient disappears. That’s it.”

Function of Blockchain Analytics

Blockchain analytics has turn into commonplace infrastructure throughout the business. A typical false impression is that holding crypto in self-custodied wallets ensures anonymity. Analytics companies map billions of addresses into identifiable clusters, linking pockets exercise to people or entities. Personal Ship was developed in response to this atmosphere by introducing an middleman into the transaction move. The blockchain information the transaction with out establishing a direct connection between the sender and the recipient.

Transaction Circulate Construction

Customers toggle “Personal Ship” in NOW Pockets’s commonplace ship move
Transaction routes: sender → ChangeNOW → recipient
Recipient sees funds arriving from a ChangeNOW tackle
No further apps, registrations, or technical data required

Key particulars

Most belongings obtainable in NOW Wallet
All transactions bear commonplace AML screening
Geographic availability matches ChangeNOW’s current restrictions
Requirement: newest model of NOW Pockets

Typical use circumstances

Shifting funds between private wallets with out consolidating on-chain historical past
Paying distributors or contractors with out exposing full portfolio exercise
Common privacy-conscious transfers the place direct tackle hyperlinks are undesirable

Personal Ship will not be a mixing service or an anonymization device. It operates totally inside ChangeNOW’s compliance framework and doesn’t alter the ultimate transaction file; it solely modifications the trail to the vacation spot.

About ChangeNOW

ChangeNOW is a non-custodial cryptocurrency alternate platform that values pace, safety, and consumer liberty. Since its launch, it has served over eight million clients worldwide, providing entry to over 110 blockchains and 70+ fiat currencies. By combining the perfect charges from high centralized and decentralized platforms, ChangeNOW presents a seamless expertise with simplified onboarding the place customers have full management over their belongings.