WHY THE ZEAL FOR robinhood:0x9fa1c5e90a11294f83a9f135b81ad1b537a5ffdc?
Going to dig into the launchpad and the Zcash narrative, because that's what really sets ZEAL apart from FOMO and PONS and the other 50 me too launchpads.
ZCASH already has the privacy narrative, enabling shielded transactions.
But it has no real utility beyond that. As a bag holder, you can't do much with it yet besides hold it passively. And holding has proved to be the right kind of utility so far.
But what if ZEC holders suddenly get the best out of FOMO and PONS paired with insane revenue sharing and a token flywheel?
What if there is a place where you can launch tokens paired with ZEC, where liquidity coalesces around these ZEC-defined assets? Where your trading becomes social? Where volume burns the ecosystem token AND distributes ZEC to all the paired tokens?
This elevates ZEAL to far more than just another launchpad. Far more than just another social trading app.
If this works, this could be the start of something big. And I'm betting on that big to happen.
WHAT IS ZEAL?
This is best expressed as a recipe
1/ Add Zcash as the liquidity layer and privacy layer
2/ Mix two cups of FOMO, the social trading layer
3/ One cup of Uniswap, the low-fee swap layer
4/ A generous pour in of PONS, the launchpad layer
5/ Coated with revenue-sharing mechanics
6/ Shove everything above into a blender at max setting
7/ Bake it on Robinhood
8/ Coat the icing with multichain
...and you get
@ZEALZdotfun
The platform is already live with a pre-mainnet version that's usable
If you are a ZEC holder or bullish on where ZEC is going, ZEAL is an exciting bet and potentially a house-changing one if the team pulls this off.
Positives:
- doxxed team who have been shipping
- launchpad ready, almost live (today it will be)
- optional privacy-focused features (private transactions, private profiles, hidden addresses)
- superior swap experience vs FOMO (way less slippage)
- FOMO-like social trading layer
- future: multichain coming
So this is not just another launchpad. This could be a unified ZEC ecosystem that can live across any chain.
For this to matter, the team needs to attract traders to the app AND volume to the launchpad.
WHY I BOUGHT IN
Social + trading + liquidity hub for ZEC.
Pairing tokens with ZEC, rewarding holders with Zcash.
Zcash is printing and looks likely to keep on hitting all-time highs.
The risk is that ZEC holders don't bite and/or there is too much launchpad wariness, and the platform doesn't print runners, which are needed to carve out market share.
FOMO is a shitty trading experience, though, and they refuse to improve. I think there's room for competitors.
I like the narrative: degen on ZEAL coins to earn passive ZEC.
ZEAL volume converts into ZEC for holders.
It's a bet on the ZEC ecosystem AND community. If this becomes THE hub and launchpad where ZEC holders go to play the memecoin game, this ecosystem could fucking print hard.
Think where this could go if it works.
Every token pair buys and distributes ZEC, buying and burning robinhood:0x9fa1c5e90a11294f83a9f135b81ad1b537a5ffdc.
And RHC is only the start.
This is a chain-agnostic ecosystem centered on ZCASH. If ZEAL goes multichain, the flywheel of buying and burning robinhood:0x9fa1c5e90a11294f83a9f135b81ad1b537a5ffdc and buying and distributing ZEC goes multichain too.
Every single token pair on every single chain feeds into the same flywheel.
SUMMARY
3M market cap, launchpad about to go live paired to
$ZEC, FOMO-like trading app with superior FAIR trading experience, fees go back to Zcash distributions and robinhood:0x9fa1c5e90a11294f83a9f135b81ad1b537a5ffdc buy back and burns, fucking kick ass devs.
The simple question I ask myself is this: will
@ZEALZdotfun keep shipping, and will the trading app and launchpad grow over the next 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months? Will robinhood:0x9fa1c5e90a11294f83a9f135b81ad1b537a5ffdc capture the value of that ecosystem growth?
For me, the answer is clearly fucking yes. I'm betting on significant growth here. If so, the market cap is tiny for what it will be.