(a) Use end-to-end encryption to support transaction broadcasting, secure messaging, and true P2P anonymous transactions.
(b) Upon this is built an optional mixer that testing has shown to eliminate any record in the blockchain of a link between sender and receiver.
(c) This mixer is a revolutionary “multi-path” implementation that employs multi-sig to route fragments of transactions down separate paths through the network, compounding anonymity while adding redundancy and security.
(d) Communication between nodes is optionally via TOR, which obfuscates users’ IP addresses.
Emphasis mine. Features that need to be
tested empirically to know how much anonymity they provide, have (close to) zero value.
You don't build anonymity by building up several layers that each provide a kind of obfuscation. Put a thousand of layers, you still don't have true unlinkability, untraceability. But you do get a nasty bigger nest of potential bugs and unexpected edge cases.
All these efforts would be a fair contribution if ring signatures wouldn't exist, but looking at them with Monero in mind, they are a bit ridiculous.
