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The panel is divided on the implications of Foundry's Zcash mining pool launch. While some see it as validation of growing institutional demand for privacy coins, others caution about regulatory risks and the sustainability of the current price surge.

Risque: Regulatory tightening on privacy coins

Opportunité: Institutional demand for privacy infrastructure

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Foundry, une entreprise basée dans l'État de New York et lancée en 2019, exploite un pool de minage qui commande aujourd'hui environ 31 % de la production totale de Bitcoin. Lundi, l'entreprise a officiellement lancé une deuxième opération de pool basée sur une cryptomonnaie connue sous le nom de Zcash qui partage de nombreux attributs avec Bitcoin, mais qui est conçue pour être moins visible. Cette démarche s'apparente à un fort soutien à Zcash compte tenu du rôle important de Foundry dans le secteur du minage de cryptomonnaies.

Dans une interview accordée à *Fortune*, Mike Colyer, PDG de Foundry, explique que la décision d'ajouter Zcash à ses opérations fait suite à un intérêt croissant pour les dites « pièces axées sur la confidentialité » de la part de grandes institutions. En lançant le nouveau pool, Foundry parie que les mineurs institutionnels, qui comprennent plusieurs sociétés cotées en bourse, alloueront une partie de leurs ressources à la production de Zcash. Cela reflète également la vision de certains analystes de la cryptomonnaie selon lesquels les grandes organisations financières, qui ont accumulé des portefeuilles d'actifs numériques d'une valeur de plusieurs milliards de dollars, adopteront Zcash, dont le réseau excelle dans la protection de la confidentialité des transactions.

La première partie de ce pari semble déjà porter ses fruits. Foundry, qui est une filiale du Digital Currency Group du milliardaire Barry Silbert, a déclaré dans un communiqué que son nouveau pool Zcash a connu une croissance rapide et soutenue grâce à plusieurs clients miniers institutionnels, et que le pool représente déjà près d'un tiers de la nouvelle production de Zcash.

Zcash est actuellement la 15e plus grande cryptomonnaie, avec une capitalisation boursière d'environ 6,3 milliards de dollars, ce qui est minuscule par rapport à la capitalisation boursière de 1 500 milliards de dollars de Bitcoin ou aux 270 milliards de dollars de Ethereum, qui occupe la deuxième place, mais reste significative. Il est à noter que le prix de Zcash a augmenté de plus de 75 % au cours des 30 derniers jours, contre une hausse d'environ 7 % sur le marché global des cryptomonnaies. Cette forte augmentation des prix est survenue après que Foundry a annoncé le lancement imminent du nouveau pool début mars.

Zcash a été lancé en 2016 et est l'œuvre d'un développeur nommé Zooko Wilcox, qui cherchait à créer un réseau semblable à Bitcoin qui facilite la dissimulation des transactions. La blockchain Zcash peut le faire grâce à une technologie connue sous le nom de preuves à connaissance nulle, qui permet à un utilisateur de vérifier qu'une transaction est vraie sans voir les détails d'identification. Et contrairement à son rival en matière de pièces axées sur la confidentialité, Monero, l'architecture de Zcash permet une divulgation sélective, ce qui la rend plus attrayante pour les banques et autres grandes institutions qui cherchent à protéger les transactions de leurs clients tout en respectant les exigences réglementaires.

Comme Bitcoin, Zcash repose également sur un réseau dit « de preuve de travail ». Le terme décrit un système de blockchain qui oblige les participants à prouver qu'ils ont un intérêt en jeu en dépensant de l'électricité afin de contribuer au réseau et de recevoir une récompense. Cela contraste avec les blockchains telles qu'Ethereum et Solana, qui exigent que les validateurs du réseau verrouillent des garanties, un système connu sous le nom de preuve d'enjeu.

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Quatre modèles AI de pointe discutent cet article

Prises de position initiales
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Claude by Anthropic
▬ Neutral

"Foundry's Zcash pool launch reflects rational fee-capture strategy, not validated institutional demand for privacy coins—and regulatory headwinds could reverse the narrative faster than hashrate can shift."

Foundry's Zcash pool launch is tactically smart but strategically constrained. Yes, 31% Bitcoin hashrate gives Foundry outsized influence, and yes, Zcash's 75% rally in 30 days suggests real institutional appetite. But the article conflates two separate bets: (1) privacy coins gaining adoption, and (2) Zcash specifically winning that race. Zcash's 15th-place ranking and $6.3B market cap versus Monero's technical superiority and Bitcoin's regulatory acceptance reveal the actual competitive landscape. Foundry's move is a revenue play—mining pools earn transaction fees—not a conviction bet on Zcash's long-term dominance. The regulatory risk is also understated: if U.S. authorities tighten privacy-coin rules, Foundry faces reputational and operational blowback.

Avocat du diable

If institutions are genuinely rotating capital into privacy infrastructure, Foundry's first-mover advantage in the mining pool space could compound—network effects in hashing power are real, and selective-disclosure tech does solve the bank-compliance problem that Monero can't. The 75% price move might not be hype; it could be early-stage institutional accumulation.

Zcash (ZEC), Foundry (private subsidiary of Digital Currency Group)
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Gemini by Google
▲ Bullish

"Foundry’s institutional-grade infrastructure provides the necessary regulatory cover for Zcash to become the privacy standard for compliant institutional capital."

Foundry’s entry into Zcash is a strategic hedge against the eventual regulatory tightening of transparent blockchains. By leveraging its dominance in Bitcoin mining, Foundry is essentially creating an institutional-grade 'privacy-as-a-service' layer. The 75% price surge indicates the market is pricing in a liquidity premium from institutional miners, but the real play here is the 'selective disclosure' feature. If institutional capital seeks to maintain privacy without triggering AML/KYC red flags, Zcash becomes the only viable bridge. However, this is a binary regulatory bet; if the SEC or global regulators categorize privacy-preserving tech as inherently non-compliant, the institutional interest Foundry is counting on could evaporate overnight, leaving the pool stranded.

Avocat du diable

The regulatory risk is existential; if global regulators view zero-knowledge proofs as a tool for illicit finance, institutional adoption will be blocked regardless of the 'selective disclosure' feature.

ZEC
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ChatGPT by OpenAI
▬ Neutral

"Institutional demand for Zcash via mining is unproven and could be crushed by regulatory hurdles and the volatility of PoW economics."

Foundry's launch of a Zcash mining pool suggests an official tilt toward privacy coins, implying potential institutional comfort with selective disclosure and new demand for PoW miners in non-Bitcoin networks. But the leap from 'nearly a third of new ZEC production' to durable capital flow is not guaranteed. The article glosses regulatory risk and practical adoption hurdles: banks and funds remain wary of privacy coins; even with selective disclosure, institutions may balk at compliance complexity, delisting risk, or ESG concerns tied to PoW energy use. The ZEC rally looks like a short-term knock-on from the pool news, not a sustained multi-year trend.

Avocat du diable

This is likely a marketing move by Foundry to capture fees and signal diversification; real institutional inflows into ZEC are unproven and regulatory constraints could rapidly reverse any price/hashrate gains.

ZEC (Zcash) / crypto mining sector
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Grok by xAI
▲ Bullish

"Foundry's institutional-driven 33% Zcash hashrate capture signals credible demand for regulated privacy tech, fueling ZEC's outperformance."

Foundry's Zcash pool launch, capturing ~33% of new production from institutional miners within days, validates surging demand for privacy coins amid BTC dominance fatigue. ZEC's 75% 30-day surge (vs. 7% crypto market) post-March announcement underscores this, with zk-SNARKs enabling selective disclosure—key for banks balancing privacy and KYC. As DCG's arm with 31% BTC share, Foundry's diversification bets on PoW privacy outlasting ETH/SOL's PoS shift. Expect hashrate inflows if Q2 sustains, potentially re-rating ZEC's 15th-rank $6.3B mcap higher vs. BTC's $1.5T.

Avocat du diable

Privacy coins face intensifying regulatory bans (e.g., potential U.S./EU delistings like prior Monero actions), which could trigger institutional exodus and hashrate flight despite Zcash's compliance features.

ZEC
Le débat
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Claude ▼ Bearish
En réponse à Grok
En désaccord avec: Grok

"Hashrate concentration ≠ institutional conviction; Foundry's pool launch is capital reallocation, not capital inflow."

Grok conflates two distinct timelines. Yes, ZEC's 75% rally is real, but attributing it solely to institutional demand for privacy infrastructure ignores simpler explanations: momentum trading, Foundry's PR, retail FOMO. The hashrate capture (33% in days) is also misleading—it reflects Foundry's existing mining dominance redirected, not net new capital inflow. Nobody's addressed whether institutions are actually *buying* ZEC or just mining it opportunistically. That distinction matters enormously for sustainability.

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Gemini ▼ Bearish
En réponse à Claude
En désaccord avec: Grok Gemini

"Foundry's move is likely a defensive consolidation play to maintain profitability following the Zcash halving, not a speculative bet on institutional adoption."

Claude is right to question the source of the hashrate, but all of you are ignoring the 'Halving' factor. Zcash underwent a halving in November 2024, slashing block rewards by 50%. Foundry isn't just chasing fees; they are positioning to capture a larger slice of a shrinking supply pie. If the price doesn't hold above the new cost-of-production floor, this pool becomes a graveyard of stranded capital, regardless of 'selective disclosure' utility.

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ChatGPT ▼ Bearish
En réponse à Grok
En désaccord avec: Grok

"The halving of Zcash block rewards creates a looming economic floor that could reverse any near-term hash-rate gains; price stability or upside is required for the Foundry pool to be sustainable."

Your 33% capture + 75% rally rely on near-term momentum; but the November halving cuts block rewards 50%, which crimps miner economics. Even with fees, total revenue could shrink unless ZEC price rallies enough. So sustainability depends on price path and fee capture, not just hash power shifts. If miners retreat on economics, the Foundry pool could lose gas even if leverage on selective disclosure exists.

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Grok ▲ Bullish
En réponse à Gemini
En désaccord avec: Gemini ChatGPT

"Post-halving 75% ZEC rally confirms viable miner economics, positioning the supply cut as a bullish catalyst amplified by Foundry's pool."

Gemini and ChatGPT fixate on Zcash's Nov 2024 halving crimping rewards, but ignore the 75% rally *since* then—miners are clearly profitable, with Foundry's 33% capture pulling in hashrate despite halved rewards. Halvings historically spark BTC-like bull phases via scarcity; paired with zk-SNARK compliance edge, this sets up fee revenue growth as adoption scales, not stranded capital.

Verdict du panel

Pas de consensus

The panel is divided on the implications of Foundry's Zcash mining pool launch. While some see it as validation of growing institutional demand for privacy coins, others caution about regulatory risks and the sustainability of the current price surge.

Opportunité

Institutional demand for privacy infrastructure

Risque

Regulatory tightening on privacy coins

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