The zano.org website is the official online presence of Zano, an open-source cryptocurrency and ecosystem launched in 2019, focused on delivering enterprise-grade privacy, security, and scalability. It positions itself as a robust foundation for confidential assets and decentralized applications (dApps), emphasizing privacy-by-default transactions that conceal amounts, addresses, and asset types using advanced cryptographic techniques like ring signatures and stealth addresses. Zano was co-founded by Andrey Sabelnikov, credited with creating the CryptoNote protocol, which underpins privacy coins like Monero. The ecosystem operates on a hybrid Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus model, enhancing security and decentralization, and features the world’s first PoS scheme with hidden amounts via the Zarcanum hard fork.
Key offerings include Confidential Assets, enabling users to create privacy tokens without managing their own blockchains, and a suite of tools like auditable wallets (opt-in transparency), escrow contracts, aliases for user-friendly addresses, and multi-signature functionality for added security. The site highlights Zano’s asynchronous core for computational efficiency, its suitability for P2P transactions and e-commerce, and ongoing developments like the Zano Trade platform and Matrix messaging protocol. It also provides access to technical documentation, whitepapers, mining and staking guides, and community updates via an integrated blog, positioning Zano as a developer-friendly, privacy-centric blockchain ecosystem aimed at mass adoption.
