Paste any eth / btc / sol address (or a .eth / .sol name). It shows who paid it, what it paid, labels where public labels exist, priced at the rate of the day. Right under it, the same four fields on a real shielded zcash tx (spoiler: not much is shown).
It says what it doesn’t know. Every number names its window, spot-priced tokens say so, labels are public heuristics (blockscout, growthepie, ofac, graphsense) and nothing on the page is an accusation. All keyless public explorers, nothing goes to a chainalysis-type api. No account, no cookie, snapshots delete after 90 days.
Paste your own and tell me where it’s wrong. That’s what I’m after.
Two goals with this tool:
Raise awareness of blockchain transparency to convince people to use Zcash
Get people to use ztrash temporary inboxes (paid with the shielded tx on the right, $1)
We’ve been working on Trace, the free explorer on ztrash.com. The idea is to show people how much their transparent wallets give away. This week it got cross-chain tracking.
What’s new:
Follows swaps through THORChain, Across and NEAR Intents (ZEC swaps included), and you can keep tracing on the other chain
Every swap has a “Check on chain” button. It reads the actual transactions and confirms the deposit and payout match what the bridge says. If it can’t confirm it, it calls it a lead
Every address gets its own page with balance, activity, counterparties, screening and cross-chain transfers
No account, nothing to install, and we don’t log who looks up what.
We wrote up a real example. One wallet investigators tied to the recent Ledger reseller drain got 14 NEAR Intents swaps from ZEC into USDC on Ethereum. Trace confirms every payout to the exact amount. What it can’t confirm is the link from the stolen funds to those ZEC deposits, because that hop went through the shielded pool. The only thing tying the two sides together is amounts and timing.
That’s kind of the point. Transparent chains are an open book, and so are the transparent edges of Zcash. Shielded Zcash isn’t. If Trace shows you more about your own wallet than you’d like, the answer is the same one this forum has been giving for years: shield.