How Zcash and NEAR Are Driving This Crypto Bull Run
@ilblackdragon and
@mert joined me to unpack why
@zcash and
@nearprotocol are both ripping right, and they say confidential transactions are what finally make crypto usable for real businesses. 🔐
Is this the dream of Bitcoin DeFi – but without BTC? 👀
Timestamps:
🚀 01:39 Guest intros, plus why ZEC (+32%) and NEAR (+69%) are ripping this week
🌐 03:13 Illia and Mert on why NEAR and ZEC's price action is turning heads
🟠 08:34 Is Zcash and NEAR the Bitcoin DeFi dream, minus Bitcoin?
🕵️ 11:54 Why coffee-shop-level balance visibility is a real business risk
✈️ 15:06 Mert's travel hack: booking flights and hotels privately via NEAR Intents
🧠 18:12 Why privacy is a retention tool first, not just an onboarding one
📣 25:11 1inch Aqua: back multiple liquidity positions with one wallet balance at
unchainedcrypto.com/go/1inch…
🔐 26:23 Privacy vs confidentiality: ZK proofs versus NEAR's MPC-and-enclave model
🛡️ 29:26 Inside NEAR's secure enclaves, and why store-of-value needs real privacy
🔄 33:59 How a NEAR Intents swap settles across chains, and its $206 million in TVL
🐛 39:09 The Zcash counterfeit bug, the Ironwood migration, and formal verification
🤖 45:49 How NEAR's Shield AI system and MPC guardrails manage solver risk
⚡ 51:33 Zcash's NU7 upgrade: faster blocks, quantum-proofing, and private voting