Robinhood Lists ZEC — First Major US Retail Platform Re-Entry
Robinhood officially listed ZEC on April 24, making it available to all US verified users including New York — a first for any privacy coin on a major brokerage platform. The listing used a compliance framework developed with ZODL and audited by Halborn Security: transparent t-address withdrawals only, shielded z-address off-platform transfers restricted.
Volume surged 400% in the first hour. With Coinbase having restricted privacy coins for years, Robinhood is now the dominant legitimate US retail option for ZEC exposure. The timing is deliberate — Robinhood chose ZEC as its re-entry point after a 2+ year pause in new asset listings.
Sources: Robinhood announcement · ZecHub digest
THORChain Adds Native ZEC Swaps
THORChain announced native Zcash support on April 24, enabling direct ZEC↔BTC/ETH swaps without wrapped assets or centralized intermediaries. Trading begins as nodes add Bifrost scanning support over the coming weeks.
This is the first time ZEC has been available on a major decentralized liquidity protocol with native chain support — no bridges, no wrapping, no trust assumptions beyond THORChain's validator set. Combined with the Robinhood listing, ZEC gained two fundamentally different liquidity channels in a single 48-hour window.
Source: THORChain announcement
FROST v3.0.0 Released — Stable, Production-Ready
The Zcash Foundation shipped FROST v3.0.0 on April 23, ending a months-long journey from RC0 (January 28). Key improvements over v2.x:
SigningKey is no longer Copy and implements ZeroizeOnDrop — signing keys are wiped from memory on dropdkg::round2::Package gets the same memory-safety treatment- Bug fix in
verify_signature_share() for pre_commitment_aggregate() hook PublicKeyPackage::new() now takes min_signers as Option for backward-compatible deserialization
This is the foundational building block for multi-party wallets, threshold custody, and decentralized key management on Zcash. All published on crates.io across all curve variants.
Sources: Forum · GitHub · ZF announcement