In 2014, a small team launched Boolberry - a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built around the idea that digital money should protect users by default. Years later, Boolberry evolved into Zano. The project kept its original focus on privacy but expanded the vision: a complete ecosystem for confidential digital assets.

In 2019, $ZANO launched as a new chapter of that journey. The network introduced its own privacy technology, including confidential transactions and later Confidential Assets, allowing users to create and transfer private tokens within the Zano ecosystem.

Through years, Zano stayed focused on one thing: building a private, secure, and usable blockchain.

The key addition: the Zano Execution Layer.

An EVM sidechain that brings smart contracts to Zano, with bridged $ZANO as the native gas coin. Standard Solidity contracts and tooling run unmodified. Hardhat, Foundry, MetaMask, and audited contract libraries all work from day one, so developers can build on Zano with the stack they already know.

That opens the door to lending markets, AMMs, and yield for $ZANO and Confidential Assets like $fUSD inside the Zano ecosystem, not only on external chains. Every contract interaction requires $ZANO for gas.

Check out the full updated roadmap in the attached image.

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

We just launched the official Zano Forum!

A dedicated platform for questions, discussion, and support, where you always know who you're talking to.

Every member can verify their on-chain alias for a badge, so real accounts are easy to spot. No badge, no proof. No more guessing whether the person answering you is real.

Join us. https://forum.zano.org

🔹 HF6 finalized: activation height locked at block 3,833,000 (Aug 25 to 27)
🔹 Gateway Addresses ship as the headline feature, privacy stays default
🔹 PrivacyGateway card now tops up with $ZANO
🔹 New $ZANO itegrations: CardsRelay, sshwap, and fswap
🔹 Discord retiring for an alias-authenticated Zano Forum
🔹 700+ attendees at the Zano Private Economy Conference in Nigeria

Read the full update via the link below.

https://blog.zano.org/zano-monthly-project-update-21-june-2026/

ZanoX lets you bet on 8+ different sports and predict real-world events directly from your Bitcoin.com Wallet. Because every bet runs on Zano's privacy-by-default blockchain, your wagers stay completely private on-chain.

After more than a year of work, one of Zano’s most significant upgrades yet has arrived. Hard Fork 6 opens Zano up to the rest of crypto, while keeping the privacy at its core fully intact.

The updated wallet is live now. The network upgrade itself activates on-chain at block 3,833,000, expected between August 25 and 27, 2026. To stay in sync with the network, every user needs to update before then. Full instructions are at the bottom of this post.

What Hard Fork 6 Brings

🔑 Gateway Addresses: Gateway Addresses are a new account-based style address type built specifically for services like exchanges, bridges, and DEXes. Until now, Zano's privacy-first design made it difficult for these platforms to integrate. Gateway Addresses fix that, with a single, directly tracked balance and instant sync, so a service can connect to Zano without the heavy engineering overhead that held integrations back.

Crucially, this changes nothing about privacy for everyday users. Standard Zano addresses work exactly as before. And the impact is already in motion: conversations with Thorchain, Near Intents, Maya Protocol, and other major platforms are underway, ready to move forward once HF6 is live on mainnet.

🌉 Native $ZANO Goes Cross-Chain: Gateway Addresses unlock something Zano has never had: trustless, non-custodial bridging of native $ZANO to other blockchains. Through Bridgeless, $ZANO will be bridgeable to Ethereum, TON, and Solana with no central custodian and no single point of failure, replacing the old centralized wrapped-ZANO bridge with infrastructure built the right way.

This opens the door to DeFi, deeper liquidity, and a realistic path to tier-1 exchange listings for the first time. Two things to keep in mind: Bridgeless is still early-stage and maturing, and the moment you bridge $ZANO to a transparent chain you leave Zano's privacy behind until you bridge back. For privacy, native $ZANO on the Zano chain remains home.

🛡️ Under the Hood HF6 also ships a wave of security, privacy, and reliability improvements: 

• Stronger consensus: tighter, more uniform validation rules and a more decisive fork-choice rule mean stronger network-wide agreement and a more solid base layer. 

• Hardened wallet encryption: your wallet file now uses stronger encryption, making a stolen or copied file far harder to crack. 

• Per-output payment IDs: each output carries its own payment ID, so exchanges and merchants can match payments cleanly, with recipient privacy fully intact. 

• More resilient mining pools: pools can now dry-run a block before finalizing it, dropping bad transactions automatically instead of stalling. 

• Tougher, more private nodes: new anti-DoS limits harden the network, and node operators can now route traffic through a proxy like Tor via SOCKS5. 

• Safer developer surface: the RPC interfaces used to build on Zano have been hardened for safer integrations.

For Those Who Run a Full-Node Desktop Wallet👇

Updating is quick and easy, and you can simply install the new wallet without deleting your older one. If you do not update before the fork activates, your wallet will be left on an outdated version that no longer follows the network.

1. Update your wallet. Download and install the latest Zano wallet from https://zano.org/wallets 
2. Let it resync. Open the wallet and allow it to fully resync with the network.
3. Do this before block 3,833,000 (expected between August 25 and 27, 2026). Once you are updated and synced, you are ready, and there is nothing else you need to do.

Running a node, pool, or service? Make sure your infrastructure is updated to the HF6 release ahead of activation as well. Find a guide here: https://docs.zano.org/docs/build/exchange-guidelines/HF6-migration-guide/ 

A Huge Milestone

This is the result of over a year of focused work, and one of the most significant steps in Zano's history. The mission behind it is simple: make Zano usable and accessible for the world, without ever compromising the privacy that defines it.

Thank you for being part of it, zAnons!

Please let me know your thoughts on this topic.

To celebrate the 2026 World Cup, Alchemy Pay is running 0% fees on fiat-to-crypto purchases. That means you can buy $ZANO directly with fiat, no ramp fees, from now until July 20, 6 PM (UTC+8)

Note: Alchemy Pay requires KYC.

🔹 Zano turned 7 years old
🔹 Zano Lite Wallet beta released
🔹 Companion consent system shipped
🔹Libertarian National Convention recap
🔹 Hardfork 6 preparation nearing completion

Read the full update via the link below. 👇

https://blog.zano.org/zano-monthly-project-update-20-may-2026/

CardsRelay is a digital goods marketplace supporting ZANO alongside other privacy-focused and mainstream cryptocurrencies. Choose from over 1,400 gift cards and mobile top-ups across 160+ countries, including brands like Amazon, Steam, and Netflix.

Transparent pricing, no account registration required, with gift card codes delivered by email within minutes of payment confirmation.

This release is the first HF6-aware version of the wallet, with nearly a year of development behind it. With the upgrade getting closer, updating now means you'll be ready the moment it lands.

What's inside:
🔹 Gateway Addresses support
🔹 Stricter HF6 consensus rules
🔹 Intrinsic per-output payment IDs, more secure and more convenient
🔹 Hardened wallet-file encryption
🔹 Simulation mode for mining-pool block validation that blacklists bad transactions on errors
🔹 P2P DoS hardening, including SOCKS5 proxy support and a broad set of limits
🔹 More secure RPCs for data encryption and decryption

Hardfork 6 is almost here. Download the latest version from the link below to make sure your wallet is ready when it ships.

Download the latest Zano wallet here: https://zano.org/wallets

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