# Zcash Elastic Subnet Bridge on Avalanche

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**Created:** [March 15, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-elastic-subnet-bridge-on-avalanche/44220 "2023-03-15T13:09:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Milton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/milton/32/21375_2.png) [@Milton](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Milton)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-elastic-subnet-bridge-on-avalanche/44220/15 "2023-03-18T00:19:47Z")

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The incentives are perhaps better aligned with a new token, but the market cap of ZAX would likely be much lower than that of ZEC, and I think the economic security would likely be lower as well. I think there would be a lot of people holding ZEC willing to bridge it over to stake, but who would not be inclined to do so if they had to buy another token. Ultimately, I think it is better for the Zcash ecosystem to have ZEC.z as the staking and gas token.

There already was a guy who ported the Zcash protocol over to an Avalanche subnet. [RFI – Zapa - Community Grants / RFI - RFP Grants - Zcash Community Forum.](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/rfi-zapa/42412) Apparently it was working on testnet, but has since been abandoned. I don’t think combining this with a bridge to Zcash is an unreasonably large project. Maybe you can even collab with the guy?

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