$ZANO Additional Holder Allocation Opens for Review

All $ZANO holders qualify for an Additional Allocation based on confirmed holdings, with allocation review opening October 12, 2026.

Zano Transaction

Transaction Details

From

@alice

@bob

Amount

1,250.00

Asset

ZANO

Memo (optional)

Invoice #2207, thanks!

You sent it, so you see everything. It's your transaction.

Our Mission

No surveillance. No intermediaries. No compromise. Zano delivers unstoppable financial privacy through a decentralized, scalable blockchain that enables anyone to transact, store value, and issue confidential assets without giving up control.

Privacy Tech Stack

Every wallet transaction passes through all five layers. None of them are optional. Hover or tap a layer to see what it protects.

What You Send

Stealth Addresses

Every output goes to a fresh one-time address, so your published address never appears on the chain.

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d/v-CLSAG Ring Signatures

Peer-Reviewed

Your input is signed alongside decoys pulled from the chain, so nobody can tell which one was actually spent.

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Pedersen Commitments + Bulletproofs+

Amounts stay hidden inside commitments, and a stack of zero-knowledge proofs, Bulletproofs+ among them, keeps every transaction provably valid.

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Confidential Assets

In every wallet transfer, asset identifiers are blinded, so observers can't tell ZANO from a stablecoin, wrapped BTC, or an NFT.

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Zarcanum

World's first

The first proof-of-stake scheme with hidden amounts. No lock-ups and no minimum stake: your odds scale with your coins, while your balance stays sealed in a Pedersen commitment.

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What the Chain Stores

Why Zano

Not just private payments. A private economy. Trade, stake, issue assets, build apps. All confidential at the protocol level.

Private-by-Default

Amounts, addresses, and asset types are hidden on every wallet transaction. You never have to switch privacy on.

Secure

ProgPoWZ mining and Zarcanum staking secure the chain together. An attacker needs both.

Decentralized

Anyone can mine, stake, or run a full node. There is no minimum stake and no approval process.

Uncensorable

Nothing in a wallet transaction identifies the parties or the amount, so there is nothing for anyone to filter on.

Fungible

Coins carry no visible history, so there is nothing to build a blacklist from. Every ZANO is interchangeable.

Flexible

Private tokens, peer-to-peer swaps, aliases, marketplaces with escrow. All native to the protocol.

Opt-in Privacy Makes You a Target

On chains where privacy is a toggle, the few who switch it on stand out. On Zano there is nothing to switch on, so using privacy says nothing about you.

Privacy as a toggle

A handful of shielded users in a transparent crowd.

Small anonymity set. Opting in is itself a signal.

Zano: Private by Default

Every wallet transaction is confidential, always.

The anonymity set is always on.

The Zano Ecosystem

More than a dozen applications run on Zano today, and every one inherits the protocol's privacy. Here are 12 of them.

In the Media

Sabelnikov on Zenith and the End of Mining

Andrey Sabelnikov joins Cointelegraph's Robert Baggs on Chain Reaction to discuss Zenith, Zano's planned move from hybrid consensus to a private proof-of-stake network.

Jul 2026

Cointelegraph

2027 Zano Overhaul Could Cut Confirmations to 60 Seconds With Zenith

Zano plans to replace its hybrid consensus with Zenith, a privacy-preserving proof-of-stake protocol designed around 15-second blocks, faster confirmations, and lower issuance.

Jul 2026

Bitcoin.com

The Future of Zano and the CryptoNote Protocol

Douglas Tuman interviews Andrey Sabelnikov on the future of Zano, the CryptoNote protocol, confidential assets, and private proof-of-stake consensus.

Apr 2024

Monero Talk

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