[PRESS RELEASE – George Town, , October 8, 2026 —, Cayman Islands, October 8th, 2026]
THORChain, a decentralized alternate, introduced that native Zcash (ZEC) swaps are actually stay, permitting customers to alternate ZEC with belongings throughout different supported blockchain networks with out counting on wrapped tokens or a centralized alternate.
The launch follows THORChain replace 3.20, which launched help for Zcash and Monero to the protocol. The Zcash pool presently holds greater than $50,000 in liquidity, permitting the community to start processing stay ZEC swaps.
The pool stays in a soft-launch part whereas efficiency is monitored. Buying and selling could also be quickly paused if bugs or different points should be addressed. The present pool dimension can simply help trades within the five-figure vary, nonetheless bigger trades will expertise increased slippage and take longer to settle till liquidity grows within the pool.
Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) will probably be robotically added to the Zcash pool when the charges/depth ratio is excessive sufficient. POL, launched as a part of the three.20 improve, provides the protocol a mechanism to deploy a portion of the liquidity charges (presently set at 20%) into supported liquidity swimming pools. As extra liquidity enters the ZEC pool, it will likely be higher geared up to help bigger swaps with lower cost impression and sooner execution.
The combination provides Zcash holders a direct route into the broader crypto market utilizing native belongings. Customers can swap ZEC towards supported belongings together with Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and stablecoins with no need to deposit their Zcash with a centralized custodian or convert it right into a wrapped illustration on one other community.
Zcash provides one other native blockchain to THORChain’s cross-chain liquidity community, bringing the whole to 14 blockchains. Slightly than transfer belongings via bridges or require customers to surrender custody to commerce between in any other case disconnected networks, THORChain settles swaps utilizing the native belongings on their respective chains.
The comfortable launch will enable the community to check Zcash swaps underneath actual market circumstances whereas liquidity develops. The Zcash pool and its present liquidity might be tracked here.
About THORChain
THORChain is a decentralized alternate (DEX) that permits customers to swap native digital belongings throughout completely different blockchain networks with out counting on wrapped belongings or centralized custodians. It permits customers to alternate belongings together with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and different supported cryptocurrencies whereas sustaining a self-custodial expertise.
Customers can swap belongings right here: swap.thorchain.org
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