Ethereum-based privacy project RailGun is witnessing rising adoption, as the latest on-chain data from Etherscan shows that the platform is gaining traction among users. Recently, the daily token shield transactions reached a daily record of 328.
RailGun adoption rises among users
Privacy-coin mania engulfed the crypto market in the latter half of 2025, with coins like Zcash and Monero recording extraordinary gains in a small period. Over the past year, ZEC is up by 667%, trading at $365 at the time of writing.
Riding the privacy momentum, RailGun is burning the midnight oil to bring more innovation into this market niche. Currently, the project is doing trials for RailGun_connect – the universal DeFi connector for private Ozk addresses.
For the uninitiated, Ozk addresses are basically zero-knowledge blockchain wallet addresses. These use ZK proofs to verify on-chain transactions but without showing private details like balances. Such wallets allow users to prove validity or compliance on-chain while keeping user data private.
Recently, the project announced that it had successfully tested Railgun_connect on leading DeFi platform CowSwap, enabling privacy-focused users to interact with the DeFi platform using their private wallets without unshielding and moving funds.
The RailGun team dubbed the feature as ‘universal plug-and-play’ that will ‘eliminate the heavy work needed to build an integration to use a DeFi application from a private balance.’
How does RailGun differ from ZEC or XMR?
While both Zcash and Monero offer privacy features to users, shielding their transaction details and other sensitive information, such solutions are not completely foolproof. This is particularly true when users interact with DeFi platforms using the funds
When users deposit or withdraw funds from DeFi protocols, they are required to unshield their transactions, making it easier for investigators to track their transactions and trace the funds to the origin wallet. RailGun eliminates this problem entirely.
Users are already realizing the value proposition of RailGun, which shows in the rising count of transactions on the network. Further, the total trading volume on RailGun recently surged to $4.5 billion, up from $2.4 billion a year ago – indicating a 100% growth on a Year on Year basis.
