The price of GhostWareOS's own token, GHOST, rose nearly 60% in the last 24 hours. Traders reacted to the project's announcement of a significant expansion of privacy-focused products on Solana.
GhostWareOS is a project on Solana that aims to create payments without trace, concealed transfers, and tools for private liquidity on an otherwise completely open blockchain.
The GhostSwap launch places GhostWare at the center of Solana's privacy initiative.
As of the time of writing, GHOST was trading at 0.003692 USD, marking a 58.3% increase in the last 24 hours.
The development took off after GhostWareOS announced that they will launch a new product next week.
'Solana's private layer, GhostWareOS powered by GHOST, is releasing a new product next week. We call it GhostSwap,' the announcement stated.
The announcement quickly sparked speculation that GhostWare is growing beyond private payments into a larger privacy layer across multiple chains.
GhostSwap is presented as a blockchain-agnostic decentralized exchange and bridge focused on privacy. According to GhostWare, the product allows users to swap assets from other blockchains to Solana without exposing wallet identity, transaction history, or asset trails.
Unlike traditional bridges and exchanges where you can track trails on-chain, GhostSwap is designed to sever the link between deposits and withdrawals. The system sends money through concealed liquidity pools and atomic swaps.
GhostWare shows its 2026 plan for a comprehensive privacy economy on Solana.
The launch builds on GhostWare's long-term vision in their 2026 privacy plan, published January 21.
'In 2025, we established GhostWare as Solana's private layer and launched GhostPay for anonymous payments on-chain,' the team stated in their announcement.
The plan expands the vision to create a 'complete private economy' powered by the GHOST token.
In addition to GhostSwap, the plan also includes GhostSend, a system where the sender initiates a concealed transfer and thus hides their name even from the recipient.
This feature targets private person-to-person payments, donations, and support for activists where it is important that the flow of money cannot be traced.
GhostWare also plans to integrate companies and organizations early in 2026. This involves private salaries, B2B payments, and stablecoin transfers. The payroll company Zebec is already mentioned as a pilot partner.
A series of planned upgrades on the Ghost Network form the foundation of the ecosystem. It acts as the project's layer for private and encrypted transfer.
This includes multi-hop routing, removal of metadata, requirements for concealed addresses, and future integration of zero-knowledge proofs and multiparty computation. The goal is to reduce trust requirements and improve decentralization.
The rapid increase in GHOST shows that more and more people believe that privacy will become a strategic part of Solana's efficient ecosystem. This is especially true as more use cases emerge for businesses, institutions, and humanitarian efforts.
Scalability, technical and regulatory risks dampen the GHOST rally.
However, it is worth mentioning that even though GhostWareOS showcases GHOST as Solana's private layer with GhostSwap, concealed transfers, and partnerships with companies, they promise more than the technology can currently prove.
Solana's low actual TPS, occasional outages, ZK verification issues, and regulatory risks for privacy tools create uncertainty around scalability and sustainability.
Specifically:
Solana's actual TPS ranges between 700–1,400, which is much lower than the claimed 65,000.
Historical outages (7 in 5 years, though it was more stable late 2025–2026) raise questions.
ZK verification encounters computational challenges and bugs.
Privacy cryptocurrencies entail regulatory risks as regulations tighten.
Therefore, the price increase may be yet another example of hype within the cryptocurrency industry. The 60% increase is likely more about expectations than actual long-term utility.