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Swap any asset to shielded ZEC in under 5 minutes on CipherScan. 1️⃣Go to cipherscan.app/swap 2️⃣Connect your wallet (or go manual) 3️⃣Pick your asset: USDT, ETH, SOL, BTC, 15+ chains supported 4️⃣Paste your shielded (u1) Zcash address 5️⃣Hit Get Quote → send → done Your ZEC arrives fully shielded. No KYC, no account needed. Powered by @NEARIntents cross-chain intents. Try it → cipherscan.app/swap Donations welcome 🫡 u1fh3kwyl9hq9q907rx9j8mdy2r7gz4xh0y4yt63dxykk2856gr0238vxsegemyfu8s5a77ycq72tcnzkxa75ykjtcn6wp2w9rtuu3ssdzpe2fyghl8wlk3vh6f67304xe4lrxtvywtudy5t434zc07u6mh27ekufx7ssr55l8875z7f4k76c3tk23s3jzf8rxdlkequlta8lwsv09gxm

@dwillems42 Yes true. Will do. Thank you!

No problem. If I may suggest, don't use AI to generate people professional affiliations, as LLM consider one discussion/post/commit/word about a project as an affiliation or official support. In particular on X/Twitter. You can also mention that posts have been generated with AI and add disclaimers, with a link to reach out to you to fix any wrong content.

Sunday reading 📰 CipherScan Weekly #9 is live. This was a busy week for Zcash. Builders shipping, institutions arriving, and the community stepping up all at once. ▶️ Grayscale files the world's first privacy coin spot ETF ($ZCSH) ▶️ Zcash hits the Wall Street Journal front page ▶️ NU7 coinholder polling launches, first in-wallet governance vote ▶️ ZODL hires @dwillems42 and @Zcash_Harry ▶️ @vizorwallet desktop wallet ships on day one with Keystone support ▶️ Barry Silbert: "ZEC feels like Bitcoin circa 2013" Congrats to everyone building. This is what it looks like when it all comes together.

@dwillems42 Fixed! Sorry.

@cipherscan_app Hey. Thanks for tagging me, but I've never been affiliated to Aztec, Railgun nor Namada. I've never done any research for them. I appreciate what they're doing for the space, but I never worked not contributed to these projects.

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Fair point the shielded pool itself doesn't leak a cryptographic link. While we only analyze public on-chain data, entities with access to IP logs or exchange KYC could turn that inference into near-certainty. The math doesn't prove it, the metadata can. That's why we flag these patterns.

@cipherscan_app Even if you can 'trace patterns', you can't have a proof the funds belong this address and that this other address is linked to that address. We can infer, but impossible to have 100% certainty. However you're right, it's better to avoid relatively obvious patterns

How NOT to use Zcash: ▶️ Shield a large amount. Split it into 3 equal withdrawals. Send them all to the same address within 2 hours. This pattern appeared on-chain. 81 ZEC entered the shielded pool. Shortly after, 3 withdrawals of 27.0002 ZEC each went to a single transparent address. The shield didn't help. Identical amounts, tight timing, one recipient, that's a traceable pattern even without seeing inside the pool. If you're going to use the shielded pool, use it properly: ▶️ Don't withdraw in equal chunks ▶️ Don't reuse the same recipient address ▶️ Don't rush, time is your friend ▶️ Keep your ZEC shielded The shielded pool protects you. Predictable behavior undoes it.

@zooko Noted! It is true 🫡

@cipherscan_app Good work! There is only one terminology suggestion I would make: the anti-pattern you are illustrating here is not specific to Zcash, but applies equally to *any possible* privacy protocol. So maybe say “How NOT to use a privacy protocol.”. 😊

@cypherpunk Volume trending up. +31% in the last 30 days 🫡

Whales are swapping their surveilled money for sovereign money. 🐳

A lot of new ZEC holders this month thanks to Robinhood. One thing most won't know: your ZEC sitting on an exchange or in a transparent address is fully visible. Anyone can see your balance. Shield it. That's the whole point of Zcash.

GRAYSCALE FILED FOR THE WORLDS FIRST EVER SPOT ETF FOR A PRIVACY COIN Grayscale has filed to convert its Zcash $ZEC Trust into a spot ETF. If approved, the product would become the world’s first spot ETF tied to a privacy coin. The filing follows reports that the SEC ended its review of privacy coins without enforcement action. Multicoin Capital also disclosed it has been building a large ZEC position since February. The hedge fund reportedly views Zcash as a macro hedge opportunity.

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Sunday reading 📰 CipherScan Weekly #8 is live. What happened in Zcash this week: ▶️ Quantum-recoverable wallets shipping within 30 days ▶️ ZF assumes stewardship of the zcash GitHub org, z.cash, and @Zcash ▶️ 3 critical security releases in 7 days, upgrade your nodes

Right now we have /api/supply which gives you a live snapshot of all pool balances (Sapling, Orchard, Sprout, Transparent) and /api/stats/shielded-daily which gives daily shielded transaction counts, but we don't yet have a historical shielded supply endpoint with hourly/minute granularity.

@cipherscan_app Which of your endpoint can fetch Zcash shielded supply history between a set time till date. One that can give data points down to hours or minutes.

CipherScan API is free. No auth, no sign-up. Block data, privacy stats, transaction lookups, cross-chain swaps, name resolution, all public endpoints. If you're building on Zcash, this is your infrastructure.

@TomZarebczan Nice!

@cipherscan_app Thank you! Using it on cyphzec.com for some of the stats :)

At Consensus this week, multiple speakers said the quiet part out loud: transparent blockchains are surveillance infrastructure. I build the alternative. @cipherscan_app for the explorer. @cipherpay_app for payments. All powered by Zcash. Privacy isn't a feature. It's a necessity.

“The antidote to A-O-C is Z-E-C.” — @mert

We are laying the foundation for a new Bill of Rights, enforced by encryption and code

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Multicoin Capital just laid out their thesis: private, seizure-resistant assets have clear product-market fit. Their pick: ZEC. 31% of ZEC supply is already shielded. 5.15 million ZEC that no wealth tax can target because it's unidentifiable. Unseizable. That number is growing every day.