Mert emphasizes that privacy won’t remain exclusive to privacy-first chains
“With Zcash, we think that it’s probably best to limit it to one asset”
“Solana has this thing called Privacy Cash, which is like a shielded SOL pool”
“There is a lot of advancements being made on all sorts of different chains. It’s not just Zcash”
@Zcash takes the focused route: one monetary asset with privacy engineered deeply into the system.
Other ecosystems are approaching the problem differently.
On Solana, protocols like Privacy Cash use ZK proofs and shielded pools to break the public link between deposits and withdrawals, while the broader ecosystem is developing confidential transfers, private swaps and other privacy infrastructure.
@mert's broader thesis is that privacy becomes a cross-chain primitive, while Zcash remains specialized around private money itself.
Zcash specializes in private money. Other chains are progressively integrating privacy into their existing financial stack.