Zcash is Now Live in Cake Wallet
Cake Wallet’s launch of Zcash brings private digital cash into a mature, multi-coin, privacy-first wallet built for real-world use. Since 2018, Cake Wallet has focused on making financial privacy usable and reliable on mobile, earning trust through open-source development, strong UX, and long-term consistency. Our Zcash integration reflects that philosophy: fully shielded by default, multi-coin and blockchain-agnostic, and implemented without compromise.
Users get the complete modern Zcash experience, auto-shielding, rotating t-addresses, swaps, on-ramps, and real-world spending via CakePay, without complexity or privacy trade-offs. With more features on the roadmap, this launch positions Cake Wallet as a stable, long-term home for Zcash, built calmly and intentionally around user choice and control.
Zcash Done The Right Way
Cake Wallet’s launch of Zcash support is about giving people more choice, not locking them into a single chain, wallet, or way of doing things. Since 2018, Cake Wallet has focused on one simple idea, that financial privacy should be usable, reliable, and accessible on mobile. With over a million downloads and a fully open-source codebase, Cake Wallet has earned trust by having the best user experience, and by leading the industry with the most innovative privacy-first features, cycle after cycle. Adding Zcash is a natural extension of that mission.
Most people use and appreciate more than one kind of coin, and Cake Wallet has always been built with that in mind. Our multi-coin approach reflects how users actually manage money, leveraging different tools for different needs. Just as importantly, Cake Wallet is privacy-first and chain agnostic. Supporting Zcash means empowering Cake wallet users with the best tools for their distinctive use cases. That independence lets us support Zcash for the right reasons, and the reason is because private digital cash matters.
From day one, our goal with Zcash was completeness, not compromise. Cake Wallet has implemented Zcash the right way, which means every spend originates from a shielded address by default, protecting user privacy at all times and ensuring people can remain private, even when sending funds to transparent addresses, without having to even think about it.
Cake Wallet covers the full modern Zcash feature set users expect from a feature-complete Zcash wallet, including auto-shielding by default, rotating t-addresses, NEAR Intents DEX functionality, fiat on-ramps, swaps to other cryptocurrencies, passphrase support, and AnyPay support. Privacy isn’t treated as an advanced setting or an optional extra. It’s built into the experience by default, in a way that feels natural, practical, and easy to use.
Of course, private money only works if you can actually spend it. That’s why Zcash also works seamlessly with Cake Pay, allowing users to turn ZEC into gift cards and debit cards for everyday goods and services. It’s a simple bridge between private digital payments and the real world, no complexity, no unnecessary friction, just utility.
Looking ahead, this launch is only the beginning. Hardware wallet support, Cupcake support, and deeper integrations are on the roadmap as we continue refining the Zcash experience. Our approach remains the same – build calmly, stay flexible, and put users first. Our Zcash integration is about offering a stable, long-term home for private digital cash inside a great wallet, which puts users first.
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