How Zcash, Maya and Edge Bring Private Interoperability to Users

December 11, 2025

Zcash now moves privately across chains through Maya, and Edge offers a natural, privacy first place to access these shielded swaps. This combination creates a seamless flow for private money, private interoperability and self custodial storage, marking an important step forward for privacy focused users.

  1. Zcash can now move privately across chains through Maya, preserving full shielded privacy.
  2. Edge provides a natural, privacy focused environment to access these shielded ZEC swaps.
  3. Maya enables private interoperability at scale, letting ZEC connect with major chains like BTC, ETH, RUNE and CACAO.
  4. Together, ZEC + Maya + Edge create a complete private flow: private money, private swaps and private storage in one ecosystem

Zcash Enters the Cross Chain Era with Privacy Intact

Privacy in crypto has always carried a simple rule. You either get usability or you get sovereignty, rarely both at the same time. Zcash changed that with world class privacy, Maya expanded it by enabling shielded assets to move across chains without giving up decentralization, and now Edge takes this a step further by bringing that experience directly into a privacy first wallet.

With ZEC live through Maya, another key piece comes together. Shielded cross chain swaps are finally becoming accessible in a way that preserves the full privacy envelope of Zcash, now supported natively inside Edge. Only a very small number of projects in the ecosystem support privacy and interoperability at this level.

For users, this opens the door to private movement across major chains.

Why This Integration Matters

Zcash has been gaining momentum. Deeper liquidity, more participation and thanks to Maya, shielded cross chain swaps that keep privacy intact from start to finish.

But despite this renewed growth, ZEC still has very limited support across wallets and platforms. It is not just that some interfaces only work with transparent balances. In many cases, Zcash is simply not available at all.

That is why this moment stands out.

With Maya’s shielded memo design, users can finally:

  • Swap shielded ZEC across chains
  • Move between BTC, ETH, RUNE, CACAO and more without using centralized exchanges
  • Keep every transfer private while staying fully self custodial

For privacy focused communities, this is a long awaited step toward real interoperability without giving up the core principles that make Zcash special.

Making Private ZEC Swaps Accessible Across Chains

With shielded ZEC now moving across chains through Maya, the next step is making this experience available in places where privacy actually matters. That is where Edge becomes especially meaningful.

Edge has spent years building a wallet for people who value privacy, self custody and simplicity. Everything is encrypted locally, no personal information is required and the interface already serves communities that use privacy focused assets like Monero, Zano and Zcash.

Bringing ZEC through Maya into Edge creates something rare in crypto.
Private money, private swaps and private storage, all in one place.

For ZEC users, it means they can finally move shielded funds across major chains without leaving a privacy forward environment.
For Maya, it connects the protocol to one of the most aligned and privacy conscious user bases in the space.

This is the type of connection that makes private cross chain finance feel complete.

What This Integration Unlocks

This moment is not about adding another asset. It is about expanding what private cross chain finance can look like when privacy coins, decentralized liquidity and self custodial wallets work together.

With ZEC and Maya inside Edge:

  • Shielded ZEC can now move to BTC, ETH, RUNE, CACAO and more
  • Users keep full sovereignty with no accounts, no KYC and no metadata
  • Zcash becomes interoperable in a wallet built for privacy forward communities
  • Liquidity and utility around ZEC grow across multiple ecosystems
  • Maya reaches an audience that values privacy as a core principle

For many ZEC users, this is the first time they will experience decentralized cross chain swaps in a familiar and user friendly interface.You can also explore ZEC through other interfaces such as Vultisig and LeoDex.


A Step Forward for Private Cross Chain Finance

Privacy technologies often grow in isolated pockets. Zcash here, Monero there, privacy layers somewhere else. Maya changes that by allowing assets like ZEC to interact with major chains while preserving their privacy guarantees.

Edge’s integration brings this capability to a broader audience.

This collaboration offers a glimpse of what private cross chain finance can become when infrastructure, wallets and privacy coins align around the same principles:

  • Self custody as default
  • No data extraction
  • Open source transparency
  • Decentralized routing
  • Privacy preserved from end to end

Zcash is performing stronger than ever. Maya is expanding what privacy can achieve across chains. And Edge provides a secure and non KYC way for users to access it all.

This is only the beginning.

What Comes Next

In the coming weeks we will share more about how this integration evolves, how shielded swaps improve and how Maya continues to support privacy focused ecosystems.

Private finance does not need to remain isolated.
Now, it moves.