ok zec went onto a crazy run and still sat at $700 for days while btc was down over 20% in 1month but not many are talking about how Near just launched an integration that's making the zec tech easier to access Zcash allows onchain privacy, shielded txns that are not traceable, so our friends at Arkham & co. can't spy on our activity, but the chain is not user-friendly and hard to get started on Nears tech called "intents" solves this, and in a few weeks of their zec integration being live it already saw a lot of demand... instead of having to do 10 steps to bridge, swap, make a new wallet... Near intents does it all for you, cheap and fast across any chain while the zec part stays private - monthly intent volume hit $2b - 30% of that is zec related - over $7m in fees generated one of the best things you can do in a bear market is learn about cool new stuff while no one is paying attention, privacy (onchain or offchain) is a topic i neglected and need to start paying more attention to (everyone should) onchain privacy is coming back and it's being routed through Near and the best part? Near is also positioning themselves as a go-to ai chain, since intents are perfect for ai agents great to be partnered with Near to explore an exciting topic like this