Zintents
Privacy-first ZEC app, powerd by NEAR-Intents
Created on 2nd December 2025
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Zintents
Privacy-first ZEC app, powerd by NEAR-Intents
The problem Zintents solves
ZIntents - A Self-hosted, Privacy-First Automated Trading for ZEC, powered by NEAR Intents
⭐ Demo: https://zintents.sctuts.com/

The Problem It Solves
🔒 True Privacy for Zcash Users
While Zcash offers shielded transactions for privacy, most platforms and automation tools completely compromise this privacy by requiring you to:
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Share your IP, location, trading data... with centralized servers
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Trust third parties with your order history and strategies
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Expose wallet addresses and transaction patterns to platform operators
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Accept that your sensitive data may be logged, leaked, or sold
The Problem: You can't maintain Zcash's privacy guarantees when using traditional trading bots - they all require cloud services that track everything you do.
💼 What ZIntents Solves
1. Privacy-Preserving Automated Trading
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Execute limit orders for ZEC/NEAR based on multiple conditions, such as price, market cap, and BTC dominance... without exposing your strategy to anyone.
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All order data stays on YOUR machine, YOUR server - zero 3rd-party dependencies
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No third party can correlate your trades or build a profile of your activity
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Perfect for privacy-conscious traders who want automation without surveillance
2. Secure Scheduled Withdrawals
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Automate recurring withdrawals to Zcash shielded addresses
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Ideal for salary payments, DCA strategies, or regular privacy transfers
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Set-and-forget automation that respects transaction privacy
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No manual intervention needed - your bot handles everything 24/7
3. Cross-Chain Trading Without Bridges
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Powered by NEAR-Intents for trustless cross-chain swaps
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Trade ZEC ↔ NEAR without wrapped tokens or centralized bridges
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No custody risk - your funds never leave your control during trades
4. Self-Sovereignty
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Run on your own infrastructure (laptop, PC, or home server)
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Your private keys never touch external servers
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Password-protect your instance with App Lock
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Open source - audit every line of code yourself
🎯 Who Benefits & How It Helps
Who Benefits
- Privacy advocates who want automated trading without surveillance
- Zcash users who need tools that respect shielded transactions
- Self-hosters who won’t trust centralized crypto services
- DeFi users seeking cross-chain automation without bridges
- Anyone who believes “not your keys, not your coins” extends to trading data and infrastructure
Before ZIntents
- Manual trades → missed opportunities
- Cloud/centralized bots → data tracked and stored
- Bridges → custody risk and hack surface
After ZIntents
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24/7 local automation on your machine
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Data and keys never leave your device
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Trustless swaps via NEAR-Intents (no bridges)
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Telegram alerts without constant dashboard checking
I built ZIntents to be a tool you can download right now, run on your laptop or your own server , start using in 5 minutes. Not an impressive-looking tech demo that only PhDs will ever be able to use. Privacy shouldn't require a computer science degree.
Privacy isn't a feature - it's the foundation. ZIntents proves you can have powerful trading automation without sacrificing your privacy or self-sovereignty for ZCash.
App Preview
Order Dashboard

Create Orders
Multi-Conditional Orders

Scheduled Withdrawals Order

Settings Page


App Lock

Onboarding Screen





Telegram notification

Challenges I ran into
After researching how to maximize user privacy, I found most solutions forced a trade-off between usability and features.
- Cloud-based tools: easy, but require trusting third parties with sensitive data and assets
- Complex self-hosting: private, but too hard for normal users
- Privacy tools: often lack automation (limit orders, scheduling, alerts)
The practical path was combining NEAR-Intents with a containerized self-hosted setup:
- NEAR Intents support cross-chain trading without bridges and accommodate all Zcash addresses, including transparent (t), encrypted (z), and unified (u) addresses for deposits and withdrawals!
- Maximum privacy - data and keys never leave the user’s machine
- Easy setup - single
docker compose up
- Features rich - automated trading, privacy enhancement, scheduled withdrawals , Telegram alerts
Tracks Applied (3)
Self-Custody & Wallet Innovation
Unstoppable Wallet
Cross-Chain Privacy Solutions
NEAR Protocol
Private Payments & Transactions
NEAR Protocol
Technologies used
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