I was trying to figure this process out myself and gave up. Hopefully there’s a video guide soon.
Where do the original ZECs you deposit on NEAR go? Is it some kind of vault? Any ZEC address where you can check all the liquidity locked?
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Cool to see more yield farming opportunities! I hope this one works out. Anyone remember renZEC on Binance Chain? I think I still have a small amount of ZEC wrapped on there 
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@chronear Could you share alternative ways to contact NEAR Intents support besides Telegram? My deposit, confirmed on Base 10 hours ago, still isn’t recognized in the Intents app. Thanks for any help!
Update: Issue resolved after accessing their Telegram channel using a friend’s account. Narrowly avoided a phishing attempt, which reinforced my decision to avoid using Telegram.
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Coreswap exchange has recognized the growing demand for privacy-focused transactions and has taken a bold step forward by enabling users to exchange Zcash shielded transactions directly. This means that users can now send shielded Zcash to an exchange either to or from, without ever going off to a transparent address.
ZEC on BSC has been delisted by Binance, right? Or is it only for Binance US users? Anyway, for Coreswap to include ZEC on BSC is a redflag for me. Other potential users beware.
Any plan to integrate NEAR in Zashi?
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Yes. We’re currently working in an R&D sprint.
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It’s great to see more use cases emerging: DeFi lending with Shielded ZEC as collateral through Templar Protocol.
The partnership and collaboration between NEAR and Zcash continues to grow and show results. The roadmap also looks interesting, with ZSA support announced, among other things.
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Hi @FPF is there a forum topic for suggesting future Dev ideas to the community?
Here is one from me
Hacked funds entering Ironwood taints the pool for everyone else. Hackers conveniently dump their gains to hide their trail and ZEC gets headlines for all the wrong reasons. ZEC should not be granting privacy to hackers or it will never be accepted as a mainstream currency.
Why not develop a core guardian that blocks Ironwood deposits from flagged wallets, as Near shield does for swaps?
Simply monitor the swap activity on Near & Thor and flag T addresses that receive from hack flagged swap originators.
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T-that defeats the whole purpose of Zcash? Not even Bitcoin has that level of censorship.
Plus all you have to do to defeat it is to create a new “clean” T address and send the funds into it, and then deposit to Ironwood from that “clean” T address.
Wait, you want to block an address if it has ever received funds from a blacklisted T address? You just handed the hackers a weapon to block ANY address out of the ecosystem by just sending some funds (which costed them nothing to earn) to it.
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thats quite a cynical response. what is the solution then to tainted hacker funds washing thru ZEC pools?
the whole purpose of Zcash is not to provide a whitewashing service and if we dont take this seriously it just gives the censors more reason to mandate regulated CEX against listing ZEC.
some form of defence against blatant misuse is a benefit to the whole community, whilst we all enjoy the privacy those pools provide.
creating clean T-addresses would not circumvent an adaptive monitoring tool that can react in real time to new address connections. fairly simple to avoid the micro deposit ‘weapon’ scenario you gave by just raising the threshold to a meaningful amount.
It just needs a dev team to scope out a solution that can run autonomously and ZEC would avoid 90% of the hack related bad press.
Hacker has 10,000 ZEC from hacking. Hacker sends $5,000 dollars (5 ZEC) to Shielded Labs’ public donation address. Bam it’s blocked. Costed hacker relatively nothing.
Zcash is… peer-to-peer? If a node wants to accept a transaction, it will. Unless Zcash itself hard forks to include it in the node itself, but then who controls what addresses are blacklisted?
It’s simple. You want a CBDC, there’s a dozen places to go to for it, most notably Ethereum with their USDC and Ripple with their RLUSD, both have centrally managed blacklists. Zcash is not for you philosophically. It’s like going to a T-rex, showing them a photo of pigeons and telling him to go vegetarian because his weaker cousins are.
what a BS scenario. Malicious single address blocking is not the primary concern here, protecting Ironwood pool from tainted funds far outweighs that trivial risk.
You are upholding a "cypherpunk ideal” that does not work in the real world of regulated finance that ZEC has to interact with at various points (e.g. when transferring to a CEX)
Otherwise the next $xBn of hacks can freely flow thru ironwood and ZEC gets pushed into the shadow world of thorchain etc
Oh, man, I worked in AML departments. I personally worked to blacklist a sh*tton of addresses. No you see, the thing is, ZEC is not BUILT to interact with regulated finance. To think so is idiocy. If you want regulated finance, go to Base or something.
Already expected. Nothing new. If the complaint was “why is ZEC not on Coinbase” then I’d understand, but the thing is, nobody really cares if it gets on centralised exchanges or not. Most people here would tell you to self custody, via… THORChain!
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Better to stay as far away as possible from the slow motion trainwreck called “regulated finance”. Careful on which side of the iron curtain you want to end up.
Anyway “regulated finance” is the aberration, a tiny blip in history and a byproduct of the globat fiat debt bubble. Expect a lot of kicking and screaming as they both slide into irrelevancy.