“Promises made, promises kept” 
Shielded Zcash swaps / transaction are now enabled for live-testing on BitcoinVN:
As the implementation was just finalized this week, we are still in observation mode - but the functionality should be fully accessible by now.
Check it out & let us know your feedback 
To further raise the utility - leveraging our recent shielded Zcash implementation at BitcoinVN exchange, our developers also enabled shielded ZEC as a payment option at our online shop BitcoinVN Shop (we’ve been an official supplier of Trezor, Ledger and various other hardware wallet devices in Vietnam for several years by now).
So you can pay now for all the goods available (mostly hardware wallets & various backup tools) directly via shielded ZEC 
And yes, we understand that Keystone wallet is still missing from the line-up - let’s see what our shop team can arrange there in the months ahead 
After now several quarters in operation - our team has compiled some numbers around the usage of transparent vs shielded Zcash on the BitcoinVN instant swap engine 
Some takeaway:
"While in the early months following the introduction of shielded ZEC on BitcoinVN, transaction count and volume were still only around half that of transparent ZEC (see below), shielded ZEC has by now overtaken the transparent version both in transaction count and volume – currently leading by almost 4:1.
The long-standing criticism that the majority of transaction activity on Zcash happens on the transparent chain – effectively making it “just another UTXO-style altcoin” similar to Litecoin – is clearly beginning to fade."
Full report available here: Zcash vs. Shielded Zcash: BitcoinVN Exchange Stats - BV Insights
