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Your money opens only where you decide
A tiny hidden sticker turns your home, your car, your desk into your own private bank branch. Outside it, your phone can look at your money, but it can’t move it.
The problem
Crypto on a phone has a robbery problem
Your phone is the vault
Everything you own travels in your pocket, onto the street, into every bar and parking lot.
Your face is the key
Face ID can be forced. Point the phone at you, and the vault opens.
There is no undo
A crypto transfer is final. No bank to call, no chargeback, no getting it back.
Security people call it the $5 wrench attack: no hacking needed, just force. The stronger your encryption, the more attractive you become as the weak point.
The idea
A bank branch you build yourself
A bank keeps its vault inside a branch: walls, guards, cameras. Money moves there, not on the sidewalk.
Zones do the same for your phone. You pick the places that feel safe. Each one gets a hidden sticker. Your phone moves money only after it taps one of them.
What a zone is
A sticker that can’t be faked
- ●Thin as paper, about the size of a coin.
- ●Its chip writes a new one-time code on every tap. A copy or a recording is useless.
- ●Only your Xalon account can add the stickers you ordered.
- ●Lost one? Remove it in Xalon and it dies for good.
Hide it anywhere you trust
Behind a frame
On the back corner. You tap that corner of the frame.
Painted over
A thin coat of wall paint hides it. The phone still reads it.
Inside a book
Inside the cover of one book on the shelf. Only you know which.
Under a coaster
In plain sight on the coffee table. Nobody looks twice.
Car sun visor
Tucked into the visor. Flip it down, tap, drive on.
Under a desk
Beneath the desktop or a drawer. Reach under and tap.
Watch it work
Behind a frame. Under fresh paint.
Watch it work
Inside a book. Behind the visor.
Sending money
Four steps, one tap
- 1Press Send in Xalon and enter the amount.
- 2Xalon says “Tap one of your zones.”
- 3Tap your sticker with the top of the phone, then switch back.
- 4Face ID, and it sends.
One tap opens your wallets for 3 minutes, so a few payments in a row need just one.
A robbery, with and without zones
Any other wallet
A robber grabs your phone on the street.
He holds it up to your face. Face ID opens.
He sends everything to himself.
Gone. No bank, no undo.
Xalon with zones
A robber grabs your phone on the street.
Face ID opens Xalon. He presses Send.
Xalon asks: “Tap one of your zones.” They’re hidden in your home.
Nothing moves. The phone is worthless to him.
Simple rules, enforced by the server
| When you unlock with | Zone tap needed? |
|---|---|
| Face ID or Touch ID | Yes, once you’ve added a zone |
| A Titan or YubiKey security key | No. Keep that key at home |
| Just looking: balances and history | Never |
Can’t be switched off
Removing zones or keys needs a zone tap too.
Not just a screen
Without a tap, the wallet key never reaches the phone.
Works on a Mac
Touch ID on a Mac? Tap the sticker with your phone.
Getting started
Set up your zones in four steps
Order
In Xalon: Security, then Zones. Three or more stickers, paid in XID.
Receive
They arrive in a plain envelope. Only your account can add them.
Add
Open Zones, tap a sticker, give it a name: “Bookshelf”.
Hide & test
Put it in place, then tap it once to be sure it reads.
Hide it like a pro
Do
+ Pick spots a robber wouldn’t think to search.
+ Add two or three zones, including a spare.
+ Test each one after hiding it.
+ Keep your seed backup offline, somewhere else.
Don’t
− Stick it on metal or under metallic paint: metal blocks the tap.
− Keep a sticker in your phone case or wallet. The zone would travel with the phone.
− Carry your security key on the same keychain.
− Tell anyone where your zones are.
Straight talk
What a zone is, and isn’t
It proves the sticker, not GPS
Move the sticker and the zone moves with it. That is why where you hide it matters.
Your seed is the master key
If Xalon were ever offline, your seed backup still opens your wallet anywhere.
A car zone travels
Handy for paying while parked, but keep big savings behind home zones.
Xalon still can’t take your money
Zones add a check before your wallet opens. Your keys and coins stay yours.
Xalon · Zones
Your branch. Your perimeter.
A robber can take your phone. He can’t take the place you call safe.
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