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December 22, 2025 10:57 pm
Encrypted Metadata Backups Are Live in DashPay!
Encrypted backups for transaction metadata are live in the DashPay wallet. This is another very important step to making digital cash that just works, yet in a fully decentralized way.
The Metadata Problem
Typically, cryptocurrency transactions only send an extremely limited amount of data: address X sends Y amount to address Z. This is for all kinds of reasons: privacy/pseudonymity, scaling, technical limitations, and more. However, in the real world our payments need a lot more than that. You would want to know the individual or company the payment was from or was intended for, the agreed upon amount and exchange rate, whether this was an internal transfer or an actual payment to someone, and any other information regarding what the payment was actually for. None of this is typically recorded in blockchain transactions. Typically, when you use cryptocurrency, you have to record all this separately, whether in some external database or within the wallet itself. However, this means that this is either stored locally on your device where it can be lost, or is backed up using some kind of an external dependency on a centralized data storage solution. If you back up your crypto wallet, but in some way lose this data backup, then what your payments actually were for is lost forever, leaving you to decipher potentially years worth of financial transactions with no info on what they were for. The dilemma becomes: do you suffer the bad user experience and extra steps of meticulously backing everything up on external storage yourself? Do you roll the dice and pray your device never has an issue? Or do you trust a centralized third party with your money, the very thing crypto was created to avoid? We can do better.
How Encrypted Metadata Backups Work
That’s why we decided to do something about this problem, and create a digital money system that just works. With Dash, now you can back up all your transaction metadata on the Evolution network, owned by you, secured by the very same private keys that secure your funds, encrypted so that your private details stay confidential. When you create a DashPay username, that data, as well as your two-way contacts, is stored on the Evolution network. Your identity already stores who the payments were to and from. This new feature allows you to periodically back up your payments data by saving it encrypted on Evolution. Just like how your funds are uniquely owned by you via your private keys, your encrypted private data is as well, all in the same system so backups don’t have any external dependencies whatosever.
Dash Evolution’s Ongoing Mission
Back in 2015 when it was unveiled at Bitcoin Wednesdays in Amsterdam, Dash’s founder Evan Duffield clearly saw the limitations of Bitcoin and how decentralized money couldn’t work unless we also decentralized data. A decade later, Dash is still at the forefront of actually fulfilling the mission of money that just works without making trust compromises and invalidating the key value proposition of permissionless money.
Evolution, in addition to being Dash’s data layer, is an ongoing process of reimagining cryptocurrency from the ground up, creating the perfect marriage of decentralized money and data necessary for critical financial and data services to be accessible to the whole world without fears of censorship. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but are making great progress.
How to Enable Metadata Backups
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Go to the menu bar at the bottom-right of the home screen
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Select Settings
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Under Settings, select Transaction Metadata
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Configure metadata backup settings: what you want to back up, when you want to back it up, etc.
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Save changes, and you’re good to go
Now, whenever you make or receive a transaction, you can add private notes, adjust the transaction category, and more, and it’ll all be backed up safely and privately on the Evolution network, with your data under your own full ownership and control. Welcome to the evolution of digital money and payments.
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