{
  "id": 19070798,
  "title": "What is Zcash (ZEC)? How shielded transactions work",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/what-is-zcash-zec-how-shielded-transactions-work",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-09T02:36:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Block",
    "slug": "the-block",
    "url": "https://www.theblock.co/learn/ecosystems/what-is-zcash-zec-435779"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy coin and blockchain launched in 2016. It allows users to make both public and private transactions. The latter — called “shielded transactions” on the network — make use of zero-knowledge proofs called zk-SNARKs to verify payments without revealing the sender, recipient or amount. Zcash has emerged as one of the […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}