The mission
Zcash gave the world private money. We're giving Zcash a place to trade it.
For years, ZEC holders have had conviction but nowhere truly their own. To trade derivatives on Zcash you had to leave the ecosystem, hand your coins to a custodian, and trade against a venue that had nothing to do with what Zcash stands for.
Zebra changes that. It's a perpetual-futures exchange where ZEC is the collateral, ZEC is the unit of account, and every position settles back to ZEC in your own wallet. Self-custody. Privacy-aligned. Zcash, end to end.
Our aspiration is simple: to become the financial home for Zcash — the place where ZEC holders, builders, and believers come to express conviction, hedge, and trade, without ever leaving the ecosystem or giving up custody. As Zcash steps into its next chapter, Zebra intends to be the exchange that grows with it.
Zebra & the Zcash story
Every great asset needs a market that believes in it.
Zcash is the purest expression of an idea the cypherpunks chased for decades: private, self-sovereign digital cash. That idea is finding its moment again — and a movement this serious deserves financial infrastructure built with the same values, not borrowed from venues that don't share them.
Zebra is that infrastructure. A trading layer that turns ZEC conviction into a real, liquid market — for the holders who've been here since the beginning, the enthusiasts arriving now, and the builders who want Zcash to be more than a coin. We're starting with perpetuals. We intend to keep going until Zcash has a complete, self-custodial perpetual exchange to call its own.