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Houdini Swap Partners with GhostWare for Private, Compliant Settlement at Scale

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Updated: November 14th, 2025
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Houdini Swap has entered into a strategic partnership with GhostWare to deliver large-scale, private, and compliant crypto settlements across multiple blockchains. It also seeks to address growing user and institutional demands for secure on-chain privacy, regulatory adherence, and scalable transaction processing.

Houdini Swap Leverages Private Cross-Chain Settlement Mechanism

The partnership centers on leveraging GhostWare’s privacy-preserving settlement infrastructure with Houdini Swap’s network-agnostic swap protocol. According to official announcements, Houdini Swap users can now access GhostWare’s suite of encrypted relay nodes and secure settlement pathways for moving assets across different blockchain networks.​

GhostWare’s functionality aims to facilitate non-custodial, confidential swaps, ensuring that transaction data and counterparties stay shielded from public view while still meeting the necessary reporting standards required for compliance.

The system utilizes a mix of privacy technologies, including secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs, to guarantee transaction confidentiality and verifiable audit trails. Houdini Swap’s bridge will route settlement instructions through these private channels, enabling both individual traders and institutional clients to execute sizeable cross-chain swaps without disclosing sensitive details on public ledgers.

Both businesses emphasise that as use increases, the connection will be extended to more chains and will support token exchanges and settlements on popular blockchains like Ethereum, BNB Chain, and new EVM-compatible networks.

Regulatory and Institutional Context

Regulatory compliance at scale is one of the collaboration’s main goals. With the help of the GhostWare settlement framework’s integrated know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) safeguards, institutional clients can conduct discreet yet lawful swaps.

It is possible to build transaction logs for dispute resolution or compliance without compromising end-user privacy. This strategy strikes a compromise between the digital asset industry’s demands for security and privacy and regulators’ transparency requirements.

In an environment of increased regulatory scrutiny, Houdini Swap and GhostWare aim to encourage business use and open new DeFi use cases by establishing private, compliant cross-chain rails. Exchanges, OTC desks, payment processors, and DAOs may all benefit from the solution’s ability to safely and effectively handle complicated transactions.

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Simon Simba
Simon is a writer with five years experience in crypto and iGaming. He currently works as a freelance writer at BanklessTimes where he focuses on simplifying daily crypto developments for readers. He discovered crypto in 2022 while writing news about NFTs for a news website in the US, and has since written for two other international NFT projects, and a Web3 gaming agency.