The price of the native token of GhostWareOS, GHOST, surged nearly 60% in the last 24 hours as traders reacted to the project's announcement of a major expansion of its privacy-focused product suite on Solana.
GhostWareOS is a privacy infrastructure project based on Solana that aims to offer anonymous payments, invisible transfers, and privacy-preserving liquidity tools on a blockchain that is usually completely transparent.
Key launch puts GhostWare at the center of Solana's privacy push
At the time of writing, GHOST was trading at $0.003692, with a 58.3% increase in the last 24 hours.
Momentum accelerated after GhostWareOS confirmed it will launch a new product next week.
“The privacy layer of Solana, GhostWareOS powered by GHOST, will launch a new product next week. We call it GhostSwap,” says the announcement.
The announcement immediately generated speculation that GhostWare is growing beyond private payments and expanding into a comprehensive multi-chain privacy solution.
GhostSwap is envisioned as a privacy-focused cross-chain decentralized exchange and bridge. According to GhostWare, the product will allow users to swap assets from external blockchains to Solana without exposing wallet identities, transaction histories, or asset routes.
Unlike traditional bridges and DEXs, which leave visible on-chain traces, GhostSwap is designed to break the link between deposits and withdrawals. Instead, it sends funds through protected liquidity pools and atomic swap mechanisms.
GhostWare's 2026 roadmap outlines a comprehensive privacy economy in Solana.
The launch is based on GhostWare's long-term vision, detailed in its privacy roadmap for 2026, published on January 21.
“In 2025, we established GhostWare as the privacy layer of Solana, launching GhostPay to enable anonymous on-chain payments,” said the team.
The roadmap expands that reach toward what GhostWare calls a 'total privacy economy' powered by the GHOST token.
In addition to GhostSwap, the roadmap includes GhostSend, a system of invisible transfers initiated by the sender, which hides the sender's identity even from the recipient.
This feature is intended for peer-to-peer private payments, donations, and activist funding, where unlinkability is crucial.
GhostWare also noted plans for integrations with companies and NGOs in early 2026. This includes private payrolls, inter-company payments, and stablecoin remittances, with the on-chain payroll provider Zebec already cited as a functioning pilot partner.
A series of planned improvements to the Ghost Network supports the ecosystem. It serves as the privacy relay and encryption layer of the project.
This includes multi-hop routing, metadata removal, reinforcement of invisible addresses, and future integration of zero-knowledge proofs and multiparty computation to further reduce the trust required and enhance decentralization.
The strong movement in the price of GHOST reflects the growing conviction that privacy infrastructure is becoming a strategic layer within the high-performance ecosystem of Solana. This is especially relevant as institutional, business, and humanitarian use cases come into focus.
Scalability, technical, and regulatory risks are hindering the GHOST rally.
However, it is worth mentioning that although GhostWareOS presents GHOST as the privacy layer of Solana with GhostSwap, invisible transfers, and pilots for businesses, it promises more than it can demonstrate with its still unproven technology.
The low actual TPS of Solana, occasional downtimes, difficulties with ZK verification, and regulatory risks for privacy tools cast doubt on its scalability and longevity.
The actual TPS of Solana ranges between 700 and 1,400, far from the 65,000 claimed.
Historical downtimes (7 in 5 years, although the system remained stable between late 2025 and 2026) leave much to be desired.
ZK verification faces computational challenges and errors.
Privacy cryptocurrencies involve regulatory risks amid stricter rules.
Therefore, this hype-driven rise presents as a common pattern in crypto. The 60% increase is likely more due to hype than to sustainable utility.
