# Closing the Gap: Why Zcash Deserves its Own "Bitnodes" **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/closing-the-gap-why-zcash-deserves-its-own-bitnodes/53689 "2025-12-05T07:17:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SafeguardLabs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/safeguardlabs/32/41287_2.png) [@SafeguardLabs](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/SafeguardLabs)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/closing-the-gap-why-zcash-deserves-its-own-bitnodes/53689/1 "2025-12-05T07:17:37Z")
**Hello Zcash Community,** I know that in these weeks you are very busy with the **ZCG Elections** , but I want to give you a summary of the grant I am requesting and the importance of this project. I hope you like it and that it gives you a better overview. ### Why is Znodes so important for the infrastructure? - **Network Visibility:** It helps to have real information on active Zcash nodes, their versions, and how the network is distributed. - **Decentralization Metrics:** We can measure geographic distribution, ASNs, and cloud distribution. This helps evaluate the networks resistance to censorship and interruptions. - **Update Adoption:** It allows verification of Zcash updates detecting old versions or bifurcation risks. - **Tools for Operators:** It helps node operators check if their node is mining correctly, responding to external connections, and measuring latency and delay. - **Security & Privacy:** It aids in studying traffic vulnerabilities, centralization risks, and the connectivity of nodes in both public and private traffic. - **Network Health:** We can monitor regional blackouts and potential denial-of-service attacks. - **Transparency & Investment:** It provides transparency for the ecosystem and proves to new investors that the network is robust and not controlled by just a few people. ### **MAJOR UPDATE** **We want to announce that we have already pushed an update adding compatibility with Zcashd and Zebra.** We now show Zcash nodes **IN REAL TIME**. This is very interesting because current platforms shows nodes that have a lot of latency and are in flux or fail to show the good nodes entirely. ### Key Features & Goals - **The Crawler:** We will improve the backend logic based on Ziggurat and dismand version to discover both Zebra and Zcashd nodes efficiently. - **Privacy-Preserving Live Map:** We will implement a live map showing node locations (the locations are going to be only the country locations or state locations to protect the user that it is running a node. - **Professional Design (UI/UX):** We will hire an external designer to create a “White & Professional” interface (using a palette of black, strong blues, and grays). We want to make a better platform that bitnodes and we do not add ads - **Node Trust System:** A backend system to classify nodes based on stability and uptime, giving a “trust score.” - **Manual Node Discovery:** A feature allowing users to manually add their nodes to the platform to speed up discovery. - **API for Developers:** A public API so other devs can use our node data for their own apps. - **Security Audits:** Ensuring the site does not keep logs, IPs, or cookies that could compromise user privacy. **We are asking for a budget to make this reality.** You can see the GitHub proposal here: [Zcash Community Grants Issue #149](https://github.com/ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants/issues/149) Check the MVP here: [znodes.live](https://znodes.live/) ---
**Author:** ![SafeguardLabs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/safeguardlabs/32/41287_2.png) [@SafeguardLabs](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/SafeguardLabs)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/closing-the-gap-why-zcash-deserves-its-own-bitnodes/53689/2 "2025-12-05T07:19:19Z")
You can see more information and more question about this project in this thread [Closing the Gap: Why Zcash Deserves its Own "Bitnodes"](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/closing-the-gap-why-zcash-deserves-its-own-bitnodes/53689) 🥳 🤩 😁 ---
**Author:** ![SafeguardLabs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/safeguardlabs/32/41287_2.png) [@SafeguardLabs](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/SafeguardLabs)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/closing-the-gap-why-zcash-deserves-its-own-bitnodes/53689/3 "2025-12-05T21:20:41Z")
Ohh and i want to clarify that the website it is constant discovering new nodes thats why yo probably see few nodes. 🙂