According to the website, Ashigaru uses CoinJoin and other mechanisms to shield users from analytical heuristics and tracking.
On Sept. 20, a mysterious group of developers announced they performed a hard fork of the Samourai Wallet code and released the first version of a mobile wallet building upon the Samourai team's work under the new "Ashigaru Open Source Project."
The project's website states that Ashigaru "develops, releases, and maintains free and open-source software" and promises to develop solutions with a low technical barrier to entry while keeping users secure, shielded from counter-party risk, and private — fully maximizing censorship resistance.
Source: Burn The Bridge.
