Compliance screening

Privacy pools get banned when they become laundering tools. Cowl screens funds at the boundary so tainted assets never enter the pool in the first place — keeping the shielded set clean and defensible.

Where it happens

Screening runs at the deposit boundary, before value becomes a private note. Once inside, everything is private; the check is what earns that privacy the right to exist.

What it checks

• Source-of-funds risk against sanctions and known-illicit address sets.
• Provenance heuristics for freshly bridged or mixed inflows.
• Policy rules the protocol’s governance can tune over time.

What it never does

• It does not read or expose your positions once shielded.
• It does not link your identity to a wallet.
• It does not give anyone a switch to make your account public.