people ask where the money goes. here's where it went:
~$47K+ of $ZEC spent buying $SAPLING off the market and burning it. 193.9M gone, 19.39% of the supply. every 10 minutes, from every trade on every coin.
~$55K+ of ZEC paid straight to holders. 11,377+ payouts so far
that's the flywheel: the more sapling grows, the less $SAPLING there is and the more holders get paid.
the flywheel is spinning 🌱
the traders are on solana. the privacy is on zcash. sapling is the road between them, and every trade on it feeds the loop:
- trade: 7,748 ZEC traded in the last 24h, ~$10.7M across 187 coins
- burn: 0.50% of every trade buys $SAPLING and burns it. 193.9M gone, 19.39% of the supply
- pay: 42.12 ZEC paid to holders in 11,226 payouts. automatic, every hour
more holders → more trades → more burned → more paid. again.
this is what a zcash-native launchpad on solana looks like when it's running.
sapling.cash
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Replying to @ebfull @ZakuraZcash
great to see the second client getting real adoption. we ran an independent benchmark of zakura last week, method and results are open source if useful to anyone evaluating it: github.com/saplingcash/zakur…
for context, we build sapling: zcash holders use solana straight from their zcash wallet. pay in ZEC, a passkey account trades on solana, everything comes back as native ZEC
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the flywheel is spinning 🌱
the traders are on solana. the privacy is on zcash. sapling is the road between them, and every trade on it feeds the loop:
- trade: 7,748 ZEC traded in the last 24h, ~$10.7M across 187 coins
- burn: 0.50% of every trade buys $SAPLING and burns it. 193.9M gone, 19.39% of the supply
- pay: 42.12 ZEC paid to holders in 11,226 payouts. automatic, every hour
more holders → more trades → more burned → more paid. again.
this is what a zcash-native launchpad on solana looks like when it's running.
sapling.cash
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1,804 payouts. all in ZEC. 🛡️
every seed in this bloom is a holder who got paid, straight to their wallet, in ZEC.
- 26.45 ZEC already paid to holders
- 7.62 ZEC in the pots, waiting for the next runs
- 114 coins now pay their holders, forever
no claiming. no staking. just hold, and the ZEC comes to you.
this is how we're onboarding the next wave of $ZEC holders: solana's traders come for the coins, and leave holding ZEC.
the traders are on solana. the privacy is on zcash. sapling is the road between them.
@zooko @Zcash @ZcashFoundation 🌱
every payout is on chain → sapling.cash/rings
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.@zooko @Zcash @ZcashFoundation
zcash holders can now trade solana's coins without ever leaving their zcash wallet.
buy with ZEC, sell back to ZEC, launch from the shielded pool. no SOL, no phantom.
built to bring traders to zcash, not to pull ZEC away from it.
trade @solana coins without ever leaving @Zcash. 🛡️
the traders are on solana. the privacy is on zcash.
until today, you had to pick one.
not anymore. connect your zcash wallet to Sapling and buy, sell, launch and get paid in native ZEC.
no phantom. no SOL. no manual setup.
this is the biggest update sapling has ever shipped. here's everything in it 👇
1. zcash-native accounts
connect @noir_wallet or @zodl_app via QR. that's it.
buy any coin on sapling with ZEC straight from your zcash wallet. sell or harvest with one face ID tap, and the ZEC lands back in your zcash wallet.
zcash in. zcash out. powered by @near_intents.
2. your account is yours
your first buy creates your sapling account, secured by a passkey (face ID / windows hello / touch ID).
- every sell, harvest and change needs your passkey, checked on chain
- sapling can only sign what our on-chain guard allows, instruction by instruction
- export your key any time
- cut sapling off any time
- lost your device? recover it from your zcash wallet
the guard is live on solana mainnet, verified byte for byte against the build we tested, and only a 2-of-3 multisig can ever upgrade it.
3. shielded launches
launch a coin with ZEC from your shielded balance.
- every shielded launch gets a brand-new sapling account, made only for that coin
- payouts go to an address that has never been used before
- the payment comes from zcash's shielded pool, with no transparent sender
nothing sapling publishes says who launched the coin. every shielded launch carries a badge that shows these checks passed.
4. your fees come home
creator fees and holder rewards land in your sapling account as ZEC, then go home to your zcash wallet.
- normal launches: sent automatically to your transparent address
- shielded launches: one tap, and they arrive as a shielded note
5. $SAPLING is the rootstock
0.50% of every trade on sapling buys $SAPLING and burns it, forever. the treasury buys and burns on top. trades from zcash accounts feed the burn exactly like every other trade.
so far:
- 55 coins planted
- 23,000+ trades
- 1,385+ ZEC traded (~$1.8M)
- 182.6M $SAPLING burned (18%+ of supply)
- 33M $SAPLING locked (3.3% of supply)
more activity on sapling = less $SAPLING.
6. where this goes
zcash doesn't need to become a memecoin chain. it needs a road from where the traders already are. that road is what we're building:
- today: buy, sell, launch and get paid without leaving your zcash wallet
- next: more of the path shielded, as volume proves it out
- then: when ZSAs land on zcash, sapling coins become native zcash assets. already built on the ZSA testnet, open source: github.com/saplingcash/zsa
the mission: the first fully zcash-native launchpad on solana, and the first to bring its coins onto zcash itself.
we're starting with careful limits on the new paths and raising them as they prove out. everything is verifiable on chain.
the path from solana's traders to zcash privacy is open.
So $ZEC was able to move 10x in bear market because someone minted infinite amount then paid the biggest KOLS insane amount with rules of selling
Everyone starts to shill it price goes insane insiders keep selling and only after months of this people find the bug
Gotcha
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🚨 JUST IN: Zcash reportedly down after failing to produce any block in the past 4 hours, per InfinityHedge.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Zcash network was not down and continued producing blocks; only Orchard shielded transactions were temporarily paused during a coordinated security upgrade. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/orchard-vuln… pool.zecminingpool.com/network
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Replying to @DipWheeler
I want to airdrop you 1% of faggot coin cuz I think it can pull a Fartcoin. Can you and @0xBiZzy dm me your FOMO wallets
By default
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The best part is ARMA will make sure that reserve can't be sold for 20 YEARS!
That is 20 years of my favorite people talking about me.
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Correction: I’m hearing there was some last minute FOMO for signing onto ARMA.
They are now up to 21 original cosponsors for today’s bipartisan introduction!
Fantastic showing for Bitcoin.
Just in from DC! 🇺🇸
Today, Rep. Begich introduced the American Reserve Modernization Act with an incredible amount of support — 16 original cosponsors!
ARMA creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to secure America’s Bitcoin for 20 years and explores a range of budget neutral acquisition strategies.
This is a major step forward for a lasting framework for holding Bitcoin for our future generations. Begich has been working hard for months to push this forward.
It’s time for a Digital Fort Knox! We’re excited to see this move through the legislative process and will keep you all posted with updates.
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The American Reserves Modernization Act (ARMA): Modernizing U.S. Strategic Reserves for the Digital Age
A quick read in preparation for its launch by bit.io:





















