The Mert

we have indexed every single transfer in the history of solana for all tokens and programs -- ever you can now query any transfers, any counterparties, any amounts, any mints, and any dates as filters all exposed through a single endpoint yes, you read all that right

who's building the ai agent for toilet controls? this shit requires a PhD haha get it

NEW Orb’s Interactions tab gives you a high level overview of any wallet. Quickly explore: - Which tokens it uses most - Which accounts it interacts with most - Which programs it spends time on

Grayscale Files to Launch the First Spot ETF for a Privacy Coin Grayscale has filed to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF, which, if approved, would become the world’s first spot ETF tied to a privacy coin. The filing comes after the U.S. SEC reportedly ended its long-running review of privacy coins without taking enforcement action, removing a key regulatory overhang. Multicoin Capital co-founder Tushar Jain also disclosed that the crypto hedge fund has been building a large ZEC position since February, viewing it as a macro hedge.

everything reminds me of her zillions

phase 1 was making cryptographic money work phase 2 was making it programmable phase 3 was making it scale the final phase will be making it private

Oh the centralized vibe coded thing that openly laundered for criminals, including numerous IRL armed robbers, and who’s main selling point was lying about doing KYT (even though it was a fully centralized vibe-coded mess) might have gone bye-bye? You don’t motherfucking say. 🙄

if this made you cringe, you can encrypt your bitcoin on @zodl_app and hide your shame

just showed Game of Thrones to my gf and she pressed "skip intro" what do I do now?

foundry digital just made zcash the second asset they've ever supported after bitcoin. captured 30% of ZEC hashrate in their first month. this happened the same week mining emissions dropped 70% from the halving while 31% of total supply sits locked in shielded pools, up 304% YoY. ansem bought at $5 and told you about it at $600. why are they confessing? they aren't confessing, they're bragging. the supply squeeze math is straightforward: 70% less new issuance, a third of float privacy-locked and growing, and bitcoin's largest mining infrastructure operator just validated the network. $924m in open interest and $5.6b in daily perp volume. this is not a shitter rotation. foundry doesn't mine shitters.

the absurd thing about zcash is that it does actually get *better* as the price goes up the more value in the shielded pool the more anonymous everyone using it can be...

Got piqued by $ZEC yesterday, so I decided to write an article There's more substance to the $ZEC narrative than I originally thought. I'm pretty bullish!

Why I'm genuinely excited about Zcash $ZEC Nearly everyone has Bitcoin regrets, and everyone has fantasized about what could have been. But it can only be a fantasy until Bitcoin faces an existential dilemma. And here we are. Quantum has more questions than answers. It's a rare opportunity for social consensus to fracture and the crypto community to reorganize. Bitcoin has almost no direct competitors anymore. All previous attempts failed and the market moved on to building venture-backed faster, cheaper, proof-of-stake chains with highly concentrated token ownership. The Zcash genesis block was nearly 10 years ago. It's one of the few remaining proof-of-work chains, the earliest to implement zero-knowledge proofs at scale, and it's now accelerating development for speed, privacy, and quantum resilience. It's such a strange feeling to see a Bitcoin alternative enthusiastically develop modern upgrades. In a rare moment when social consensus for Bitcoin is fracturing, the social consensus for Zcash is compounding. It's hard not to look at this moment like a flash back. The first time you heard about Bitcoin or sold it too soon. What you fantasized about doing differently, if only you had known where Bitcoin was going and had the patience to weather the storm. I think the roadmap for $ZEC is even more reflexive that we are used to. At $50 or even $500, the skeptical voice in your head says this a manufactured narrative. Just like mainstream media viewed Bitcoin as a tulip-style bubble when it traded at these prices. But as $ZEC gains ground, the price reflects a growing social consensus, and the probability of a flippening grows. It seems impossible until we reach an inflection point, and I think we each have personal inflection points layered throughout. The moment $ZEC hits the price you first heard about $BTC you will be infected with the mind virus. The fantasy to do it all over again from your original starting point. The fantasy to weather the storm, holding until Blackrock is selling your coins, if not forever. And the enthusiasm to be part of something you believe in again, at the frontier of crypto technology and a nostalgia for crypto culture. I miss it just writing about it. I don't know if it works. Obviously NFA/DYOR. But this is why I'm personally excited about the project. The past few years felt like we really lost our way and I'm looking forward to something that feels like it's ours again. Fast, private, quantum-resistant Bitcoin that Saylor (and Satoshi's wallets) can't sell seems like a good starting point to me.

zcash is quantum resistant private bitcoin for 1/100th of the price

freedom money

Colosseum Frontier Workshops by @SuperteamBlack: Office Hours w/ @mert from @helius x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I mean, I am pretty sure there are other choices available, but I know how much communism sucks and I hold ZEC and this is powerful narrative to be pushing

"Crypto without privacy is not crypto," @mert says on stage at @consensus2026, presented by @moonpay.

crypto without privacy is not crypto