The mainnet contract is deployed on Solana — meaning we physically cannot extract value from this without other users validating each sell. A working product, which Zcash only ever claimed to be.
Keep the cryptography. Drop the chain.
A fork is a decision about what to carry over. We carried the one thing Zcash got right — the shielded proof system — and left behind the chain that held it back.
Zcash's chain
Slow blocks, thin liquidity, and transparent by default — most transactions never used the shielded pool at all. Privacy nobody turns on isn't privacy; it's a setting.
A separate L1 nobody trades on means the tech sat unused for years.
The shielded core
The zk-SNARK engine that proves a transfer is valid without revealing sender, receiver, or amount. Battle-tested, untouched, and completely chain-agnostic.
We ported it to run against a Solana on-chain verifier — so the proofs settle where the volume already is.
Zcash proved zero-knowledge money works, then trapped it on an L1 nobody uses. The fork moves it — the shielded core, verified on-chain, settling natively on Solana. The contract above is the receipt.