Prepared to simply swap crypto for Zcash (ZEC) with out centralized exchanges? Zashi 2.4 is right here, bringing decentralized swaps powered by Close to Intents. Convert belongings like USDC, Bitcoin, or Solana into ZEC with just some clicks, then defend it for personal storage, all inside the Zashi pockets.
Why This Issues
Shielded ZEC ensures your transactions keep non-public. However acquiring ZEC typically means utilizing centralized exchanges, which aren’t out there to everybody and undesirable for a lot of. Zashi 2.4 modifications that utilizing a easy in-wallet swap. With decentralized swaps, you may alternate any NEAR Intents-supported cryptocurrency for ZEC straight, with out intermediaries.
This can be a piece of a bigger puzzle, of a imaginative and prescient first outlined by Josh Swihart in early 2024 after taking the ElectricCoinCo reins: a privacy-preserving monetary system that exists outdoors the previous monetary system; adjoining to it, however impartial of it. With every Zashi launch, that imaginative and prescient turns into extra actual.
How It Works
Right here’s methods to swap crypto for ZEC in Zashi 2.4:
Open Zashi and faucet Extra → Swap.
Select your supply crypto (e.g., BTC, USDC) and enter the quantity.
Present a refund handle (the pockets handle the place funds return if the swap fails).
Evaluate the quote and ensure.
Scan the QR code along with your exterior pockets holding the supply crypto.
Full the transaction in your exterior pockets.
As soon as the clear ZEC arrives, comply with the in-app immediate to defend it for privateness.
Additionally in This Launch:
Mempool Detection
Zashi 2.4 now reveals incoming ZEC transactions immediately after they hit the mempool (the community’s transaction queue awaiting affirmation). No extra ready over a minute for mined transactions to look.
What it means: See funds as quickly as they’re broadcast.
Notice: Transactions nonetheless want mining to finalize, and there’s a small likelihood they might drop from the mempool (e.g., as a result of community points), however you’ll know they’re on the way in which.
Zashi-Coinbase Integration Disabled
We’re briefly disabling the Coinbase on-ramp. The alternate has launched a brand new session token authentication requirement that raises privateness issues and isn’t appropriate with Zashi’s structure.
This makes our new decentralized on-ramp all of the extra well timed, reminding us why it’s essential to have the ability to fund Zashi with out counting on centralized exchanges.
This launch removes one other dependency on the previous system, strengthening the groundwork for a brand new one with out gatekeepers. Unstoppable non-public cash wants impartial rails, and Zashi retains constructing them.
Keep shielded.
