Send money in about a second, with the amount, the sender and the recipient hidden by default.
“You have to make the idea that cryptocurrency is private by design.”
— Edward Snowden
Mandatory privacy, one-second settlement, merged proof-of-work security, and no trusted setup. Other coins pick one or two. ZKas is the only chain that ships all four.
| Property | ZKas | Monero | Zcash | Public PoW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy | Mandatory | Mandatory | Optional | Transparent |
| Settlement target | ~1 second | ~2 minutes | ~75 seconds | varies |
| Consensus | GHOSTDAG BlockDAG | Single chain | Single chain | Single chain |
| Proof system | Orchard · Halo 2 | RingCT | Groth16 / Halo 2 | — |
| Trusted setup | None | None | Legacy pools had one | — |
| Security source | Merge-mined w/ Kaspa | RandomX | Equihash | Standalone |
| Public app-data | 512-byte, authenticated | None | Encrypted memo | varies |
Monero can’t touch one-second settlement or carry authenticated app-data. Zcash leaves privacy optional. Public chains have none at all. ZKas is the only one that refuses to trade any of it away.
An opt-in privacy pool starts empty and marks everyone who uses it. A mandatory one starts full and marks nobody: the anonymity set includes every participant since the genesis block.
Reveal only what you choose, only to whom you choose.
of all ZKAS value is shielded right now. Amounts, sender and recipient hidden by construction.
Each payment is an Orchard shielded transaction with a Halo 2 proof: no trusted setup and no transparent address to leak to.
No lineage, so no taint. No coin can be blacklisted, frozen or discounted. Absolute fungibility in base consensus.
Amounts are hidden, the total isn’t. A public turnstile integer, checkable from any node, proves nothing was minted from thin air.
Share a viewing key with exactly one counterparty, such as an auditor or an exchange, and reveal only what you choose.
No presale, no founder allocation, no airdrop. The block reward halves roughly every three months into a two-step perpetual tail, and the miner keeps the entire block subsidy, forever.
Genesis pays its reward to a one-byte OP_FALSE script that no signature can ever satisfy. The ledger starts at an effective balance of zero, not an allocation. Readable straight from the coinbase, no viewing key.
The genesis coinbase embeds the hash of Bitcoin block 959,713, which was unknowable before that block was mined. It proves genesis was cut after that moment, ruling out a privately pre-mined, backdated chain.
GHOSTDAG orders parallel blocks instead of discarding them, so shielded payments settle in about a second with no congestion market, and they stay settled.
ZKas shares Kaspa’s kHeavyHash proof-of-work byte-for-byte: same algorithm, same ASICs, same stratum. One grind secures both chains, so ZKas inherits real hashrate at zero marginal energy, and mining is the fairest way in.
A single kHeavyHash solution can be valid on both Kaspa and ZKas at once. Miners point existing hardware at both, so ZKas inherits Kaspa-grade security at no extra energy, and no new ASIC exists to centralise it.
Non-custodial. Your seed never leaves the device; the daemon only sees a viewing key.
Android · desktop · webTrade on NonKYC and Neoxa, or swap peer-to-peer at the ZKas OTC desk.
exchanges · OTCThe fairest way in. Point kHeavyHash hashrate at a pool and merge-mine beside Kaspa.
primary on-rampValidate the chain and serve shielded history. Pruned nodes still hand out full wallet history.
open sourceSDK, protocol reference and a merchant gateway with invoices, webhooks and WooCommerce.
shippedLive BlockDAG, miners, reorgs and the shielded-state turnstile, all verifiable.
live explorerNo presale, no founder allocation, no airdrop. Every ZKAS was mined, from block one.
Genesis pays its reward to a one-byte OP_FALSE script. No signature can ever satisfy it, so the genesis output can never be spent. The ledger starts at an effective balance of zero, not an allocation.
The genesis coinbase embeds the height and hash of Bitcoin block 959,713, which was unknowable before that block was mined. It proves genesis was cut after that moment, ruling out a privately pre-mined, backdated chain.
Genesis was cut at a real target, roughly 50 TH/s at one block per second, with ordinary difficulty from block one. No low-difficulty ramp for insiders.
Issuance is proof-of-work only: every coin is mined. The whole block subsidy goes to the miner, forever.
Mainnet live since July 2026, and the genesis is final. Orchard shielded state under GHOSTDAG ordering, backed by the full consensus test suite. Every wallet is non-custodial.