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Zintents

Zintents

Privacy-first ZEC app, powerd by NEAR-Intents

Created on 2nd December 2025

Zintents

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/

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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:

  • Share your IP, location, trading data... with centralized servers

  • Trust third parties with your order history and strategies

  • Expose wallet addresses and transaction patterns to platform operators

  • 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

  • Execute limit orders for ZEC/NEAR based on multiple conditions, such as price, market cap, and BTC dominance... without exposing your strategy to anyone.

  • All order data stays on YOUR machine, YOUR server - zero 3rd-party dependencies

  • No third party can correlate your trades or build a profile of your activity

  • Perfect for privacy-conscious traders who want automation without surveillance

2. Secure Scheduled Withdrawals

  • Automate recurring withdrawals to Zcash shielded addresses

  • Ideal for salary payments, DCA strategies, or regular privacy transfers

  • Set-and-forget automation that respects transaction privacy

  • No manual intervention needed - your bot handles everything 24/7

3. Cross-Chain Trading Without Bridges

  • Powered by NEAR-Intents for trustless cross-chain swaps

  • Trade ZEC ↔ NEAR without wrapped tokens or centralized bridges

  • No custody risk - your funds never leave your control during trades

4. Self-Sovereignty

  • Run on your own infrastructure (laptop, PC, or home server)

  • Your private keys never touch external servers

  • Password-protect your instance with App Lock

  • 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

  • 24/7 local automation on your machine

  • Data and keys never leave your device

  • Trustless swaps via NEAR-Intents (no bridges)

  • 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

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Create Orders

Multi-Conditional Orders

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Scheduled Withdrawals Order

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Settings Page

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App Lock

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Onboarding Screen

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Telegram notification

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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

Fully self-custodial and local-first: ZIntents auto-generates a NEAR-Intents wallet and keeps keys on user machine, surf...Read More

Unstoppable Wallet

Cross-Chain Privacy Solutions

ZIntents leverages NEAR-Intents to privately connect Zcash with other ecosystems: Place conditional limit orders across ...Read More
NEAR Protocol

NEAR Protocol

Private Payments & Transactions

ZIntents automates private ZEC payouts via NEAR-Intents, with first-class support for Zcash shielded addresses (zs1, z, ...Read More
NEAR Protocol

NEAR Protocol

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