The Legend of Galeon
Where ancient treasure meets modern cryptography.
The San José
On June 8, 1708, the San José, a Spanish galleon carrying one of the largest treasure hoards ever assembled, sank off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. Gold coins, silver bars, emeralds from Colombian mines, and precious artifacts worth an estimated $4-17 billion USD descended into the Caribbean depths, hidden from the world for over three centuries.
The San José was the flagship of the Spanish Tierra Firme fleet, making it a prime target during the War of Spanish Succession. A British squadron ambushed the fleet, and the San José exploded and sank in minutes, taking nearly 600 crew members and its legendary cargo to the seafloor.
When the Colombian Navy located the wreck in 2015 at a depth of around 600 meters, they found something remarkable: the treasure was still there, undisturbed, protected by nothing but obscurity and depth.
Hidden in Plain Sight
Galeon (Spanish for "galleon") draws its name and philosophy from this legendary ship. Just as the San José's treasure lay protected for centuries, visible on sonar but unreachable, your payments on Galeon exist on a public blockchain yet remain unlinkable to your identity.
We use stealth addresses, a cryptographic technique that generates a unique, one-time address for every payment. Observers can see that transactions occurred, but they cannot determine who received them. Your treasure, hidden in plain sight.
Ports protect receivers. Fog Mode protects senders. Shipwreck Reports let you prove ownership when needed.
How Galeon Works
Ports (Receiver Privacy)
Create named payment endpoints with unique cryptographic keys. Each Port is an isolated identity, so payments to one can never be linked to another.
Stealth Addresses
When someone pays you, they generate a fresh address using your public keys. Only you can derive the private key to collect those funds.
Fog Mode (Sender Privacy)
Pay from pre-funded stealth wallets to break timing correlation. Instant payments stay on-device; scheduled payments use optional, time-bound backend delegation.
Shipwreck Reports (Compliance)
Need to prove ownership? Generate cryptographic proofs that demonstrate you control specific addresses without revealing anything else.
Built on Standards
Galeon implements EIP-5564 (Stealth Address Announcements) and EIP-6538 (Stealth Meta-Address Registry), the Ethereum standards for stealth addresses. We're deployed on Mantle, an L2 that provides low fees and fast finality, which is essential for practical private payments.
All cryptographic operations use @noble/curves and @noble/hashes, audited implementations of secp256k1 and related primitives. Your keys never touch a server. They're derived on-demand from your wallet signature.
Made with Colombian Pride
The San José rests in Colombian waters, a treasure that belongs to our heritage. Galeon carries that spirit forward, building technology that protects what's yours, from a team proud of where we come from.
Ready to sail?
Privacy when you send. Privacy when you receive.