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# FAQ
Q: How does Hinkal work? What kind of transactions can I perform?
A: Universal privacy for crypto payments, settlements, and payouts across major public [chains](/hinkal/ecosystem/supported-chains.md).\
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You can store, swap, send, receive - all privately.\
Execute confidential settlements, batch payments, and payouts to vendors, partners and affiliates, without exposing balances, revenues, and treasury flows to counterparties and competitors.
Q: Who is Hinkal for?
A: Hinkal provides on-chain privacy for everyone.
Institutional use cases:
* Confidential on-chain strategies. No visibility of assets and strategies by the market (copytrading & frontrunning) and LPs.
* Confidential liquidation of tokens for VCs/treasuries of protocols. VCs can receive their tokens directly to the shielded addresses so no one can see the recipient and liquidator.
* Payments/transfers.
* Security of assets. Hackers cannot target individuals or entities holding substantial assets.
Retail use cases:
* Teams receiving tokens onto shielded addresses.
* Payments/transfers.
* Security of assets.
Q: Is Hinkal on Mainnet?
A: Hinkal is currently live on Solana, Tron, Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and Arc. More L1 & L2 chains are being added.
Q: Which tokens are available to transact with?
A: Hinkal supports all coins on the supported chains. If a token is not found in the drop-down menu during, users can import it manually by pasting the token address and pressing “Add Token”. Token information is fetched automatically.
Q: Does Hinkal have a token?
A: Hinkal does NOT have a token yet. Hinkal plans to launch a token in the near future.