Zosh
Trustless privacy bridge between Solana and Zcash
Created on 2nd December 2025
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Zosh
Trustless privacy bridge between Solana and Zcash
The problem Zosh solves
Zosh is a trustless privacy bridge between Solana and Zcash.
- Zosh solves the privacy problem for Solana via Zcash orchard pool
- Zosh solves liquidity and scalability problem for Zcash by connecting Solana.
- Zosh dominates the exist bridges by bringing MPC on-chain, make it permissionless and trustless.

Challenges I ran into
User Experience of using Zcash wallet
Zcash doesn't have browser wallet (and it don't actually need)
it makes the bridging process rough, I don't want users spending time inputing the bridge address manually.
- Found that Zcash actually has ZIP-321 to compose the Payment info into a QRCode, solved the inputting thing.
but, how to track the transaction? I don't want users spending time inputing the transaction id manually.
- Introduce a nonce which attached to the memo, that we can track it in our service for making things right.
Double Spend Prevention on Solana
I was about to maintain sort of state in Solana program to handle this, the cons are like below:
- lack of scalability using nonce (can not async bridging)
- take much more space and tx fees using merkle tree (I'm strict about this)
- zero knowledge too heavy and can not solve the problem totally
This drives me to pivot from a MPC protocol to a MPC based PoS blockchain, and maintains an accumulated merkle root in the global state
UTXO on Zcash
Ledger thing but really nightmare for scalability, our design currently just supports lock and burn, but not LP provider, the 75 seconds block time makes the deposited fund stuck in the mempool for too much time, and in the meanwhile we can not do anything, and the exist API is limited that indexing spendable notes efficiently is painful.
We can not solve this in a week, need more time to develop our own infura and supports LP
Tracks Applied (5)
Cross-Chain Privacy Solutions
Axelar Network
Cross-Chain Privacy Solutions
Osmosis
Cross-Chain Privacy Solutions
Pump Fun
Cross-Chain Privacy Solutions
Helius
General Bounty
Project Tachyon
Technologies used


