Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

Why Traditional URL Shorteners Are a Privacy Nightmare When you click a bit.ly link, here's what happens: Bit.ly logs your IP, timestamp, user agent They see the destination URL They track your browsing patterns They sell this data to advertisers Even if you trust the shortener, their database can be hacked. Introducing Cryptly I built cryptly to solve this problem using blockchain and encryption. How It Works Encryption (Client-Side) const encrypted = await crypto . subtle . encrypt ( { name :