Digital asset infrastructure company Foundry Digital plans to launch a mining pool for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash in April 2026 as it expands beyond Bitcoin mining services.
The company said the new pool will operate from the United States and will be designed to meet the compliance and reporting requirements of institutional and publicly traded mining companies.
A Foundry spokesperson said:
“The company launched the service because Zcash addresses something we believe is genuinely important: the idea that financial privacy is foundational to economic freedom, and that privacy and compliance can coexist.”
Foundry said the pool will run on the same infrastructure used by Foundry USA Pool, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools by hashrate share.
Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2016 that allows users to shield transaction details such as wallet addresses and payment amounts using zero-knowledge proofs.
The announcement follows renewed interest in Zcash after developers who previously worked at Electric Coin Company raised more than $25 million to build a privacy-focused wallet for the network.
Despite the renewed attention, Zcash mining remains concentrated among a small number of pools, with ViaBTC controlling about 31.7% of network hashrate and F2Pool holding roughly 15.8%.
At the time of reporting, Zcash price was $212.55.