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Rewrite What is Zano intro for clarity and directness. Add fungibility and uncensorability to values and key technologies. Update products with FUSD, Zano Stats, Zano MCP, and full ecosystem list. Fix wallet integration statuses, remove stale LocalBitcoins reference, clean up commented-out FAQ, fix footer links pointing to new.zano.org.
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### **What is Zano?[](https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/frequently-asked-questions/#what-is-zano)**
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Zano is an open-source cryptocurrency (layer-1) and ecosystem with enterprise-grade privacy, security, and scalability that operates as a robust foundation for confidential assets and decentralized applications (dApps).
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Zano is an open-source layer-1 blockchain where all transactions are private by default. Amounts, addresses, and even asset types are hidden on every transaction — enforced by the protocol, not opt-in. You can transfer funds, stake, issue confidential tokens, trade peer-to-peer, and build decentralized applications on Zano.
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### **How does Zano achieve privacy?**
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[Wallets where Zano is available](https://zano.org/downloads) (Mobile & Desktop)
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<!-- ### **Where can I spend Zano?**
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Zano is currently integrated in Trocador's Anon Pay, this means that any website that uses this payment processor will accept Zano, that includes buying gift cards and prepaid cards at [Cake Pay](https://buy.cakepay.com) and [Trocador](https://trocador.app/es/prepaidcards/) itself.
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We are also working on further integrations and a Zano based decentralized [marketplace](https://zanobazaar.com) is in the works by a community member. -->
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### **What’s the plan for scaling?**
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We'll continue to improve our dynamic blocksize (which our team pioneered initially with Cryptonote) and we're currently researching horizontal L1 scaling (sharding).
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# What is Zano
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Zano is an open-source cryptocurrency (layer-1) and ecosystem with enterprise-grade privacy, security, and scalability that operates as a robust foundation for confidential assets and decentralized applications (dApps). In short, people can build all kinds of privacy-focused dApps on Zano utilizing our unique features such as Confidential Assets, Escrow Contracts, Aliases, and more.
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Zano is an open-source layer-1 blockchain where all transactions are private by default. Amounts, addresses, and even asset types are hidden on every transaction — enforced by the protocol, not opt-in.
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On Zano everything is private by default, meaning people can’t see the amount transacted, the addresses involved, and not even the asset type transacted.
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You can transfer funds, earn staking rewards, issue confidential tokens, trade peer-to-peer, and build decentralized applications on Zano. No one can see what you sent, who you sent it to, or what asset was involved. All an observer sees is that a transaction happened.
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As illustrated in the image below, all you can see is that a transaction happened. Transactions are verifiable for the sender/receiver through transaction ID’s.
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Transactions are verifiable by the sender and receiver through transaction IDs, but the data is never publicly exposed.
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### Technologies
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### Origin
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Zano’s lead developer Andrey Sabelnikov created the first-ever privacy coin protocol code base named CryptoNote. Today, this protocol is used by Monero and hundreds of other projects.
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Zano’s lead developer Andrey Sabelnikov wrote the original CryptoNote reference implementation — the codebase that Monero and hundreds of other projects forked from. Zano is his next evolution of that work, built from scratch with a wider scope: not just private payments, but a private economy.
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Zano is the advanced evolution of Cryptonote, emphasizing unparalleled privacy and adopting a wide variety of technologies that can be used to create all kinds of privacy-focused decentralized applications (dApps) and other projects.
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### Key Technologies
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Here are they summed up:
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**Zarcanum**: The world’s first Proof of Stake scheme with hidden amounts. Stakers can secure the network in complete anonymity.
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**Zarcanum**: A hallmark of Zano, introducing the world's first hidden amounts Proof of Stake scheme, shaping a novel benchmark in blockchain consensus.
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**Confidential Assets**: Anyone can issue privacy tokens on the Zano chain, secured by the same mechanisms as the native coin — hidden addresses and hidden amounts. Private stablecoins, shielded versions of existing assets, and more, without running your own blockchain.
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**Confidential Assets**: Beyond the Zano coin, our platform enables user-creatable privacy tokens that possess all the features and functionalities of the native coin, ensuring complete transactional privacy.
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**Ionic Swaps**: An improvement on atomic swaps that enables peer-to-peer asset exchange with full privacy. Neither party has an unfair advantage. This powers Zano’s DEX.
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**Ionic Swaps**: In Zano's ecosystem, users can smoothly trade between different crypto assets, all while maintaining the essence of privacy.
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**Hybrid PoW/PoS Consensus**: Alternating Proof of Work and Proof of Stake blocks. Attacking Zano requires both hashpower and stake — no single vector is enough.
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**Hybrid PoW/PoS Consensus**: By uniting the strengths of both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake processes, Zano delivers enhanced security, curbing double-spend vulnerabilities.
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**Auditable Wallets**: An opt-in feature for transparent wallets where a third party would rather verify than trust. Does not affect privacy for the rest of the network.
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**Auditable Wallets:** An opt-in feature that enables people and organizations to create transparent wallets for situations where we would rather verify than trust. Creating auditable wallets doesn’t affect the privacy of the Zano network in any way.
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**Fungibility**: No coin is tainted. No blacklists. Hidden transaction history makes every ZANO identical.
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**Core Performance**: Zano's asynchronous core is a testament to computational efficiency, ensuring forward/backward compatibility and a modular approach ready for the crypto realm's challenges.
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**Uncensorable**: When transactions are invisible, they can’t be blocked, reversed, or selectively enforced.
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Additionally, with features like the dynamic [Marketplace API](https://docs.zano.org/docs/build/marketplace/marketplace-api-guide), adaptable [Escrow/P2P Contracts](https://docs.zano.org/docs/use/escrow-contracts/), and an array of projects nurtured on Zano's foundation, our platform offers diverse opportunities for developers, traders, and all who value privacy in the digital age.
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Zano also supports a [Marketplace API](https://docs.zano.org/docs/build/marketplace/marketplace-api-guide) for on-chain decentralized stores, [Escrow/P2P Contracts](https://docs.zano.org/docs/use/escrow-contracts/) for trustless peer-to-peer agreements, and human-readable [Aliases](https://docs.zano.org/docs/use/aliases) (@username instead of long addresses).
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Zano is constantly innovating, so make sure to check our [roadmap](https://zano.org/roadmap) as well as our [Frequent Asked Questions](https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/frequently-asked-questions) page.
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See the [roadmap](https://zano.org/roadmap) for what’s coming next, or the [FAQ](https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/frequently-asked-questions) for common questions.
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### Stability
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The extensive amount of testing that our blockchain has undergone minimizes the issues often encountered in the early days of any project. This makes the Zano network stable and release-ready from day 1. Our decade of experience with both Boolberry and Zano commences this.
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The extensive amount of testing that our blockchain has undergone minimizes the issues often encountered in the early days of any project. This makes the Zano network stable and release-ready from day 1. Our decade of experience with both Boolberry and Zano confirms this.
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### Decentralization
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When we say decentralization we mean it, Zano is truly decentralized as anyone can participate in the network, and nobody has an unfair advantage. There are no validator nodes (master nodes), no minimum staking amounts, and no lock-up times. Whether you are a miner, a staker, or a user, **Zano is for everyone**.
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### Fungibility
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No coin is tainted. No blacklists. Hidden transaction history makes every ZANO identical. Unlike transparent blockchains where coins can be flagged or rejected based on their history, Zano's privacy guarantees mean every coin is equal.
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### Uncensorable
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When transactions are invisible, they can't be blocked, reversed, or selectively enforced. Privacy at the protocol level means no one can discriminate against specific transactions or addresses.
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### Easy-to-Use
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From our wide variety of wallets to our documentation and to our products, we always keep the end user in mind ensuring a good user experience to drive adoption of the Zano blockchain.
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### Confıdential Assets
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Anyone can easily issue user-creatable privacy tokens on the Zano chain; assets secured by the same mechanisms that make Zano so much more secure than
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first-generation cryptocurrencies, namely because of hidden addresses and hidden amounts. This unique technology can be used to create private stablecoins, shielded versions of existing assets, and much more, without the overhead of having to create, manage, and secure your own blockchain.
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Anyone can easily issue user-creatable privacy tokens on the Zano chain; assets secured by the same mechanisms that make Zano so much more secure than first-generation cryptocurrencies, namely because of hidden addresses and hidden amounts. This unique technology can be used to create private stablecoins, shielded versions of existing assets, and much more, without the overhead of having to create, manage, and secure your own blockchain.
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## Products
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### Zano Trade: P2P Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
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The Localbitcoins-like trading app will utilize Zano's built-in escrow contracts to eliminate the need for a third party in the trade settlement process. The escrow contract will require both parties to lock up collateral until the trade is concluded, thereby creating a financial incentive for both sides to cooperate. Any crypto, and even fiat, can be traded natively on this platform.
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A peer-to-peer trading platform that uses Zano's built-in escrow contracts to eliminate the need for a third party in the trade settlement process. The escrow contract requires both parties to lock up collateral until the trade is concluded, creating a financial incentive for both sides to cooperate. Any crypto, and even fiat, can be traded natively on this platform.
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### Zano Trade: Decentralized Exchange
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Zano Governance is an anonymous on-chain voting system where our stakers who secure the network can vote on major decisions regarding the Zano blockchain, further decentralizing the Zano ecosystem.
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### FUSD
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A private stablecoin on Zano. Send dollars without anyone knowing how much, to whom, or when. Built as a Confidential Asset, FUSD has the same privacy guarantees as native ZANO.
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### Zano Stats
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Live blockchain explorer with network analytics, staking data, and market insights. Available at [zanostats.com](https://zanostats.com).
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### Zano Wallets
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Zano has a variety of wallets available for every type of user:
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- Desktop Wallet: A full-node wallet that gives you access to all of our features, including staking.
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- **Desktop Wallet**: A full-node wallet that gives you access to all features, including staking.
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- Mobile Wallet: A remote-node wallet that supports all of our features except stak- ing, ready for instant use that fits in your pocket.
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- **Mobile Wallet**: A remote-node wallet that supports all features except staking, ready for instant use that fits in your pocket.
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- Lite Wallet \[IN PROGRESS]: A lightweight, easy-to-use wallet that is ideal for daily usage of small transactions and uses a remote node.
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- Third-Party Wallets \[IN PROGRESS]: Zano is getting integrated into various popular multi-asset wallets such as Cake Wallet and the [Bitcoin.com](https://bitcoin.com) wallet.
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- **Third-Party Wallets**: Zano is available in [Cake Wallet](https://cakewallet.com), [Bitcoin.com](https://bitcoin.com) wallet, and [Edge Wallet](https://edge.app).
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### Zano Companion
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A Metamask-like browser extension that enables authentication and connects the Zano desktop wallet to the web applications built on Zano. Zano Companion is your gateway to the broader Zano ecosystem!
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A browser extension that connects the Zano desktop wallet to web applications built on Zano. Handles authentication and transaction signing for dApps in the Zano ecosystem.
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### Zano MCP
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An [MCP server](https://github.com/PRavaga/zano-mcp) that connects AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible tools) to the Zano blockchain. 45+ tools for querying blocks, wallets, assets, DEX order books, and trading data — giving AI assistants direct read access to a privacy chain. See the [blog post](https://blog.zano.org/zano-mcp-give-your-ai-agent-eyes-on-a-privacy-blockchain/) for setup and use cases.
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## Wider Ecosystem
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Beyond the core products above, the Zano ecosystem includes:
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- **[Wrapped Zano](https://wrapped.zano.org)**: WZANO — an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, exchangeable 1:1 for native ZANO at any time.
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- **[Obscura](https://obscura.zano.org)**: Mint and manage NFTs privately. Digital ownership without broadcasting your collection to the world.
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- **[Zano Messenger](https://docs.zano.org/docs/use/zano-matrix-guide)**: Decentralized, encrypted communication built on Matrix, linked to your Zano alias.
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- **[Bridgeless](https://bridgeless.com)**: Non-custodial bridge between public and privacy blockchains. Uses Zano gateway addresses with ETH-compatible signatures for cross-chain asset commands.
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- **[Zano Bay](https://zanobay.com)**: A private marketplace. Buy and sell goods with end-to-end encrypted transactions.
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- **[Bandit City](https://bandit.city)**: Community hub with its own token, staking, and culture built on Zano.
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- **[Alias Auction](https://auction.zano.org)**: Bid on human-readable @usernames registered on-chain as your Zano identity.
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- **[Zano Pay](https://pay.zano.org)**: Embeddable payment widgets for any website. Accept private payments in minutes.
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- **[Zano Cash POS](https://zanocash.com)**: Point-of-sale for physical shops. Customers scan, pay, done — private, no bank required.
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See the full ecosystem at [zano.org/ecosystem](https://zano.org/ecosystem).
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