Digital asset infrastructure company Foundry Digital plans to launch a mining pool for Zcash in April 2026, expanding beyond Bitcoin mining infrastructure. The company said the pool would be designed for institutional and publicly traded miners seeking compliance-focused mining services.
The new pool will be based in the United States and built on the same infrastructure used by the company-operated Foundry USA Pool. Foundry said the service will include reporting tools and payment systems intended to meet the operational requirements of institutional miners.
Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that features an encrypted ledger using proofs of zero knowledge. A mining pool is a service that allows multiple miners to combine their computing power and share block rewards, increasing the chances of earning consistent payouts.
A Foundry spokesperson told Cointelegraph that the company decided to create a new mining pool because “Zcash addresses something we think is really important: the idea that financial privacy is fundamental to economic freedom and that privacy and compliance can coexist.” They added:
When institutional and public miners can mine Zcash through infrastructure built to their standards, it brings a new hashrate to the network and strengthens its security.
Foundry Digital was founded in 2019 and provides mining infrastructure and associated services to digital asset companies. Its Foundry USA pool is one of the largest Bitcoin miners swimming pools by hashrate sharing. Foundry said it expects the Zcash pool to begin operations in April 2026.
The announcement comes days after developers who previously worked at Electric Coin Company raised more than $25 million continue to develop a privacy-focused wallet for Zcash.
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Zcash, launched in 2016allows users to send transactions without publicly revealing details such as wallet addresses or transaction amounts. The network is based on Bitcoin’s codebase but uses zero-knowledge proofs, known as zk-SNARKs, to enable optional “protected” transactions alongside standard transparent transactions.
In 2025, Zcash has become one of the most widely discussed privacy-focused crypto assets, with comments from industry figuresincluding Arthur Hayes, Naval Ravikant and Mert Mumtaz, helping to generate interest in the network and its native token, ZEC (ZEC).
The rally has caused Zcash to rise nearly 600% over the past year, from less than $35 in March 2025 to $698.87 on November 16, 2025, according to CoinGecko. data. The token has since retreated, falling 58.7% year-to-date, from around $512 on January 1 to around $212 at the time of writing.
Even with renewed attention, the network’s mining activity remains concentrated in a small number of pools.
Poolbay data watch ViaBTC controls around 31.7% of the total hashrate, followed by F2Pool at around 15.8%, with smaller shares spread across pools such as 2Miners and Antpool.
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