Most chains treated “visible forever” like a law of physics. @fhenix treated it like a design choice that went too far. Dual mode is the quiet admission that not every balance needs a public autopsy. Same token. Same address. Two modes. Public when you want DeFi to see you. Encrypted when you do not want the whole network watching the number. The ledger still proves the transfer happened. It just stops publishing the size of your life. That is not hiding from Ethereum. That is finally letting Ethereum have a volume knob.