Dash puts Zcash's Orchard privacy live on its mainnet
Dash, the decade-old payments coin, announced today that it activated a new privacy system called Orchard. The system uses Zcashs zero-knowledge proof technology to hide transaction details. The launch comes at a difficult time for Zcash, which created the Orchard technology. The project is in the middle of fixing a serious bug that could have let attackers create fake Zcash tokens. What is different about Dashs new privacy system? Dash has launched a new privacy system called Orchard that lets users send Dash without revealing the sender, receiver, or amount to the public. The old privacy method, PrivateSend, mixed coins between users to hide transaction trails. The team announced the mainnet activation on X, saying the pools went live “RIGHT NOW.” The team also said that the new system can confirm transactions in about one second and sync a wallet in roughly 20 seconds. Dash has offered privacy features since it launched in 2014, using CoinJoin for its PrivateSend feature. That method involved mixing many users transactions together to make them harder to trace. Orchard uses zero-knowledge proofs. This is a type of cryptography that allows a transaction to be checked as valid without revealing who sent it, who received it, or how much was sent. Samuel





