Sending money home should not mean publishing it.
Prova is a remittance app for the United Arab Emirates → India corridor, built on the idea that privacy and compliance are not opposites — you can prove a transfer is legitimate without revealing who made it or what it was worth.
The problem
Millions of people work abroad and send money to their families every month. The systems that carry it are expensive, slow, and — as they move onto public blockchains — permanently visible. A transfer on a typical chain records the sender, the recipient and the exact amount, forever, for anyone to read.
That is not a small privacy inconvenience. It means a stranger can see what a domestic worker earns, when they were paid, who depends on them, and how much they have left. Financial surveillance of the people least able to object to it.
Why the usual answer fails
The obvious fix is a private chain or a mixer — and that is exactly where these products die. A regulated remittance corridor cannot be built on a system that makes compliance impossible. No licensed institution will move money into something it cannot demonstrate is clean, and no regulator will allow it to.
So the interesting problem is not "how do we hide transfers". It is how do we prove a transfer is compliant without revealing it.
What Prova does about it
Your phone builds a zero-knowledge proof that you are verified, within your limit, and that your verification has not expired. The network checks the proof and settles the transfer. It never learns the amount, the recipient, or who you are — because the proof carries none of that, and there is deliberately no endpoint on our side that could receive it.
Concretely: your keys are generated in your phone’s secure hardware and never leave it. Your identity documents are read on the device and never uploaded. Amounts are never transmitted to us. We are not promising to be careful with your data — we have built a system that mostly cannot have it in the first place, which is a much stronger guarantee than a policy.
Where it is today
Honestly: early. Prova runs on the Stellar test network with test assets that have no monetary value. Identity verification is reviewed by a person rather than a licensed vendor, because until that vendor is integrated, auto-approving would be telling people they are verified on the strength of no check at all.
Today you can send to other Prova users. Withdrawals to a bank account will follow once a licensed partner is connected.
It is built and maintained by a very small team. That is a reason to read the code rather than take our word for anything — the cryptography, the contracts and the app are all public.
What we will not do
- Hold your keys, or build any way to move your money without you.
- Ask for your PIN or recovery phrase. Nobody at Prova will, ever.
- Collect identity documents onto our servers.
- Sell, share or monetise transaction data — we do not have it to sell.
- Claim to be licensed, live, or handling real money before we are.
Questions about any of this?
We would rather answer a hard question than have you assume the flattering version.
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