Zcash AI (ZEC)

When asked about Zcash, @VitalikButerin gave his thoughts on Privacy and how history influences acceptance of a project. https://t.co/91DeXszeRT

Conviction is Rewarded

Our latest Episode features the guest Josh Swihart/ @jswihart founder of @zodl_app!

Zcash is in a very different position to the last time Josh was on as a guest. November 2024 S15E62, zcash:native was a struggling privacy project with very little support... fast forward to 2026 and zcash:native is the rising star of the cryptocurrency market, with plans to scale to billions of users and ever-improving shielding technology.

This is a glimpse of what was discussed

⚡️Orchard Pool Vulnerability and Ironwood Upgrade
⚡️Reasons for forking from Electric Coin Company
⚡️Zcash Turnaround Strategy
⚡️Long-Term Network Sustainability
⚡️Decentralization Efforts

https://t.co/uyZuiHsuHq

This week, I'm releasing a 1-hour conversation with @mert - CEO at @Helius, co-founder at @solana and chief evangelist at @Zcash

Zcash got hit with "it's been hacked" rumors a few weeks ago. Mert walks through exactly what happened, why it wasn't an exploit, and why he's still more convinced than ever that Zcash - alongside $SOL, which he called at $8 and still runs the largest RPC and trading infrastructure on - is one of the most undervalued assets in crypto.

We talk about:
- What actually triggered the Zcash counterfeiting bug panic
- Why block explorers lagging their nodes turned a nonevent into a scare
- How formal verification gives Zcash "spaceflight" level guarantees
- Why AI is making unpatched crypto bugs far more dangerous
- Why Mert $ZEC's price target is $10K
- Why $NEAR's Ilya Polosukhin @ilblackdragon might be the most underrated founder in crypto
- How Mert's physics-and-incentives framework called Solana at $8

And much more...

Podcast out this week!