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# Notes

Note Management: see and control the individual Notes (UTXOs) behind your balance; labels, freezing, clusters, consolidation, and watch-only addresses.

Your KAS balance is the sum of individual coins the network calls UTXOs. Enclave calls them **Notes**. Most of the time you never need to think about them; Note Management is for when you do.

Compact: **Menu → Note Management**, or **Notes** on Home. Studio: **Tools → Note Management**.

## What a Note is

Every payment you receive creates a Note on one of your addresses: a fixed amount that can be spent only whole. Sending KAS spends one or more Notes and creates new ones, the recipient's payment and your change. Which Notes are spent together is visible on the public ledger forever, which is why the choice matters for privacy.

## The register

The page shows spendable and frozen KAS, how many Notes you hold, and each Note with its outpoint (transaction id and index), amount, address, local label, cluster, and any protocol or covenant it carries. Watch-only addresses and their Notes are listed separately.

## Actions

| Action                         | What it does                                                                                                                                    |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Freeze** / **Unfreeze**      | A frozen Note is never spent by automatic selection. Use it for coins you want kept apart or held.                                              |
| **Label**                      | A private name for the Note, stored on this device only.                                                                                        |
| **Select**                     | Build a spend set, then **Continue send** to open Transfer with those Notes chosen.                                                             |
| **Consolidate**                | Merge the selected Notes into one. Consolidation links their histories on chain; Enclave warns, and never consolidates on its own.              |
| **Split into two outputs**     | Divide a Note into two, for example to keep a round amount separate.                                                                            |
| **Watch address** / **Remove** | Add a Kaspa address you do not control to watch its balance. Watch-only Notes are shown, counted under *Watching* on Home, and never spendable. |

Every spend from this page is planned and reviewed by SureSign like any other; the page only chooses inputs.

## Clusters

A **cluster** is a group of Notes that the public ledger already links together: Notes on the same address, and Notes that were received or spent together. When SureSign selects Notes automatically it prefers, in order:

1. one Note that covers the amount by itself;
2. Notes from a single cluster;
3. Notes joined across clusters, using as few as possible.

Joining clusters tells an observer that two previously separate histories belong to the same wallet. The review's **privacy** findings say when a plan does that, and where SureSign can offer an alternative that keeps clusters apart (a **Private plan**), the review lets you switch to it.

## Selection modes

Set the default under **Settings → Privacy → Note selection default**, or per transaction under **Choose Notes** on Transfer.

| Mode          | Behaviour                                                                             |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Automatic** | SureSign chooses, as above. Frozen Notes are excluded.                                |
| **Strict**    | Only the Notes you selected. If they do not cover the amount and fee, the plan fails. |
| **Preferred** | Your selection first, topped up from other unfrozen Notes if short.                   |

## Maturity and inscriptions

A Note that is the output of mining (a coinbase) cannot be spent until Kaspa's coinbase maturity has passed; Enclave lists it but SureSign will not select it early. A Note that carries an inscription (a KRC-20 or KRC-721 commit, for instance) is shown as frozen so that an ordinary send never consumes it by accident.

## Why "Notes"

"UTXO" is the consensus term and remains the developer term throughout SureSign. "Note" is the product term: a unit of value with a history, which you can name, set aside, or spend deliberately. The kernel does not care what the interface calls it; every Note it spends is resolved from the network's own record at planning time.