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I've seen people have had issues buying and selling Zano lately. Here's where $ZANO and $FUSD are available right now

MEXC introduced mandatory KYC last year, and lately swap providers have lost access to the MEXC API they sourced $ZANO liquidity from. Many routes stopped working overnight. Here's an overview of the options that remain:

No KYC required:

WizardSwap (wizardswap.io) : no KYC. Supports swaps from BTC, ETH, XMR, DASH, and LTC to $ZANO.

Godex (godex.io) : no KYC by default, though larger swaps may trigger verification.

ZanoX (zanox.io/buy-zano) : no KYC. Apart from many assets, it supports stablecoin swaps such as USDT, USDC, and USDS.

FreedomSwap (freedomswap.com) : no KYC, deep liquidity, supports $100k+ swaps. Swaps 45+ Ethereum assets (incl. USDT/USDC) to $FUSD, Zano's private stablecoin. $FUSD can then be swapped to $ZANO at freedomdollar.com (max $2,500 per swap).

OurBit (ourbit.com/exchange/ZANOUSDT) : no KYC. Mirrors MEXC liquidity. Most user-friendly option. May be restricted in some regions.

KYC required:

MEXC (mexc.com) : currently the deepest $ZANO order book.

AlchemyPay (alchemypay.org) : fiat on-ramp supporting debit and credit card purchases.

Whatever the route, self-custody is the final step: $ZANO's privacy applies once it's in your own wallet.

For information only, not financial advice. Service availability depends on your jurisdiction.

Significant changes to solve this dependency on centralized exchanges once and for all are on the way.

THORChain is committed to integrating $ZANO. Maya Protocol and Near Intents options remain on the table.

Once the Zano Execution Layer is live, $ZANO can be bridged to our ZEL EVM chain, Ethereum, and Base. This means users can buy wrapped $ZANO on Uniswap and other DEXes that use liquidity pools, accessible permissionlessly and without KYC.

Swap providers could source liquidity from there, and their issues will be solved for good.

FreedomDollar just added a groundbreaking bridge to their website between $USDT, $USDC, and $fUSD.

Fees from USDT to fUSD are just 0.265%, and back from fUSD to USDT are just 0.155%.

Ethereum, Tron, and Zano networks available.

Has anyone tried it out yet?

Introducing Zenith: Zano's move to pure Proof of Stake.

A new consensus protocol, built on the privacy foundations of Zarcanum.

This isn't a pivot. It's where a road that started in 2013 finally converged. Every attempt to improve our hybrid model kept hitting the same wall: the PoW component. So we changed the question: what does the network look like if that interaction just isn't there?

Zenith is the result of more than 13 years of research into how a network can gain the benefits of modern Proof of Stake while preserving the privacy that users expect from Zano.

What changes after hard fork 7:
Block time speeds of ~15 seconds, down from one minute
4 to 6 block confirmations instead of the current 10, carrying stronger security guarantees than the 10 we wait for today
Typical TX confirmation in 60 to 90 seconds, down from an average of 10 minutes
Ephemeral blocks keep history light, so more blocks does not mean a heavier chain
PoW emission gone, 21,600 $ZANO a month that no longer gets partially sold by miners
Staking stays private, amounts hidden, no permanent link between your outputs and you

Read the full breakdown here: https://x.com/zano_project/status/2077755195962863673

Zenith whitepaper: https://github.com/hyle-team/docs/blob/master/zano/Zenith.pdf

CoinEx to Cease Operations and Begin an Orderly Wind-Down

Sadly, we just heard that CoinEx is shutting down. It has been a great and reliable exchange for Zano for many years.

Trading stops on: 29th September
Withdrawal deadline: 22nd December

Please withdraw your assets as soon as possible to your self-custody wallet.

CoinEx announcement: https://x.com/coinexcom/status/2099680522758721756

I understand people's concerns and hope these insights and comments are valuable:

1. Since Zano is a hybrid PoW/PoS blockchain, users would rather stake their coins instead of trading. This naturally results in thinner liquidity.

2. Not all liquidity is on the order books; as the price moves, new orders appear.

3. Users can sell ZANO for fUSD through the Freedom Dollar website with $5000 USD per sell, and can repeat this as many times as they like. fUSD can be swapped 1:1 for USDT/USDC, also through that same website, or through exchanges they're supported on. https://www.freedomdollar.com/en

4. You can swap a whole 1 BTC for about 6500 ZANO through https://www.wizardswap.io/

As you can see, there are plenty of ways to swap decent sizes of ZANO both ways without moving the price too much. That said, there is plenty of room for improvement, and after HF6 this will happen through listings on DEXes like THORChain where we'll make sure there will be decent liquidity as well.

Hello and welcome! We're glad you found your way here.

Why we created this forum

Zano's community has always been active across Discord and Telegram, and those channels are great for real-time chat, quick questions, and announcements. But real-time chat has a weakness: good ideas scroll away. Deep technical discussions get buried, and newcomers end up asking the same questions again and again.

This forum fixes that. It gives the Zano community a permanent, searchable, well-organized home for long-form discussion. Everything posted here stays discoverable, for you and for everyone who comes after you.

Additionally, since this is a dedicated Zano forum, there should be way fewer scammers here!

What you can do here

• Ask and answer questions. Wallet setup, staking, mining, confidential assets, Zano Trade, Zano Companion: if you're stuck, someone here has probably solved it. And your answer today becomes tomorrow's reference for someone else.
• Discuss ideas and proposals. Share thoughts on the protocol, the ecosystem, and where Zano should go next. Thoughtful, long-form debate is exactly what this space is for.
• Get building help. Developers integrating Zano's APIs, libraries, or confidential assets can discuss implementation details in depth, without losing the thread in a fast-moving chat.
• Share what you've made. Built a tool, written a guide, launched a project on Zano? Show it off and get feedback from people who care about privacy tech.
• Stay informed. Follow updates, releases, and community initiatives in one organized place.

A few things to keep in mind

• Search before posting. Your question may already have a great answer.
• Be respectful. We're a global community of builders, miners, stakers, and privacy advocates, and we want this to stay a place people enjoy.
• For confirmed bugs and feature requests, GitHub remains the right place: github.com/hyle-team/zano/issues. For real-time chat, Discord and Telegram aren't going anywhere.
• For sensitive data, such as your wallets or funds, only use our official support channel, which is available on our website: https://zano.org/support
• Never share your seed phrase or private keys with anyone, here or anywhere else. No team member will ever ask for them.

Privacy is not optional here. It's the default. Thanks for being part of it.

Welcome aboard,
The Zano Team

https://news.bitcoin.com/2027-zano-overhaul-could-cut-confirmations-to-60-seconds-with-zenith/

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We are in talks with swap partners, such as Exolix, to bring $ZANO & $FUSD swaps back to their platforms. We're temporarily unavailable there because MEXC recently changed its policy for swap providers, and they can no longer access it for liquidity. We're working with them actively to provide alternatives.

@ketone-0 I'm hoping the THORChain pool for native $ZANO, and the Uniswap pool on Ethereum for wrapped $ZANO will both be deep enough to take away any liquidity issues. They should serve as the 'main' liquidity sources. Additionally, we're hoping to get on NEAR Intents with decent liquidity as well, and achieve numerous tier-1 exchange listings via wrapped $ZANO.

All in all, I expect volumes and liquidity to improve significantly after THORChain integration and launch of ZEL.

Hi there,

After deploying your asset, use mint_asset if you need more supply later (up to your max), and assets_whitelist_add so it shows up in wallets, since Confidential Assets aren't visible by default. Beyond that, the key question is what the token is actually for (private stablecoin, community token, tokenized asset, etc.), since that drives everything else.

Valorization: there's no built-in mechanism that gives a token value. Like any asset, value comes from utility (what can holders do with it?), adoption, and liquidity (can people actually trade it?).

Price: Zano doesn't set or manage it. It's pure market discovery through trading:

• Zano Trade DEX: post/take buy and sell orders, price is whatever the order book agrees on
• Exchange listings: you can list your asset on CEXes and DEXes to have plenty of exchanges available

If you want an active market, you'll likely need to seed liquidity yourself by posting the first buy/sell orders on Zano Trade. Some do it via trading bots.

Good luck!

Andre is LIVE with Cointelegraph to talk about Zenith: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1dKrPPWzEMQJX

An excellent interview that offers insight into Zano's history, present, and future. I'm very excited for what's to come!

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/innovation/zano-sets-hard-fork-date-as-privacy-chain-opens-up-to-defi

This would be great, it would even make sense for Freedom Dollar themselves to facilitate this.