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'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.
An excellent interview that offers insight into Zano's history, present, and future. I'm very excited for what's to come!
It's listed on the official website under the Projects section. However, that's not an endorsement. ZanoBay is a P2P marketplace, so always do your own due diligence on any seller.
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 all of them. The only current issue that still exists is Apple needing to approve the new Zano mobile wallet in their App Store.
This would be great, it would even make sense for Freedom Dollar themselves to facilitate this.
We'd love to see this as well, but most of the above-mentioned services are heavily regulated and won't integrate privacy coins like Zano. Once $ZANO goes cross-chain, we have a decent chance of integrating Wrapped Zano on their services.
This won't change in the next few days. Hard fork 6 lays the groundwork for the changes we want. THORChain devs need to commit to integrating us, and we need to launch ZEL (Zano Execution Layer) first before $ZANO goes cross-chain.
@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.
zAnons! How does everyone feel about HF6? Is anything still unclear to you? It's only 8 days away, and we're here to answer any remaining questions. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I understand people's concerns and hope these insights and comments are valuable:
Since Zano is a hybrid PoW/PoS blockchain, users would rather stake their coins instead of trading. This naturally results in thinner liquidity.
Not all liquidity is on the order books; as the price moves, new orders appear.
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
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.
@stelliedan not yet. I think the team hasn't decided what to do with that emission yet.
Zano developers don't have time to respond to everyone's AI-written blobs of text. That said, they are aware that security and privacy tech aren't constant. New things are being developed all the time, and a blockchain needs to constantly innovate in order to stay secure and private. Quantum resistance is one of those things.
Oh, and don't forget the staking rewards calculator:
Staking APY fluctuates quite heavily, and staking is probabilistic; this causes some people to get 2-3 staking rewards in a week, then nothing for 2- 3 weeks. You can check the estimated total staked coins and live APY on the explorer:
Currently at a mind-blowing 79% of the total supply with an APY of just ~2.16%.
