01 · Overview
What is XEQM?
XEQM is a privacy cryptocurrency network and the official open-source desktop wallet used to send, receive, and stake the asset. It is software — there is no XEQM-branded hardware device. The network is the latest evolution in a lineage that began with Monero's CryptoNote-derived privacy stack, continued through the Equilibria (XEQ) hybrid proof-of-work / proof-of-stake project, and now lands in XEQM with hardened cryptography, native subaddressing, and an Oxen-derived service-node layer.
Every transaction on XEQM is private by default. There is no opt-in shielded pool, no transparent chain to fall back to, and no analytics infrastructure embedded in the wallet binary. The cryptographic primitives — RingCT for amount confidentiality, Bulletproofs+ for compact range proofs, stealth addresses for recipient unlinkability, and ring signatures with 16-input anonymity sets — operate together so that the public ledger reveals only that a valid transaction occurred, never who sent how much to whom.

