# Moonlight

## Welcome!

This is Moonlight's documentation page. Your place for all things related to the Moonlight protocol — a privacy layer built on [Stellar](https://www.stellar.org/).

## What is Moonlight?

Moonlight is a privacy layer for the Stellar network that lets people send, receive, and store assets without revealing on-chain who owns what. By spreading each account across countless discrete addresses and processing transfers in bundled form through a user-chosen privacy provider, it breaks the direct link between public ledger data and personal identity—letting providers meet regulation-specific requirements while users retain **complete control of their funds** and **the freedom to choose or switch their privacy provider at any moment.**

Moonlight provides fully open-sourced core building blocks for the protocol to operate. Accounts are represented by countless discrete UTXO addresses that the wallet still treats as one balance, and a standardized key-derivation scheme lets a single master secret deterministically generate, control, and recover every address. Transactions move through programmable channels overseen by trusted privacy providers, who manage these pools, uphold compliance requirements, and deliver a seamless, unified experience for users interacting with the protocol.

### Jump right in

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="files"></th><th data-hidden></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Whitepaper</strong></td><td>Read the detailed specification of the Moonlight Protocol</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="readme/whitepaper">whitepaper</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Getting Started</strong></td><td>Start integrating and building on top of the Moonlight Protocol and tooling </td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="getting-started/quickstart">quickstart</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Moonlight Repository</strong></td><td>Check out Moonlight's open source implementation and tools.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/Moonlight-Protocol">https://github.com/Moonlight-Protocol</a></td></tr></tbody></table>