Ethereum apps.
Zcash money.
Zander is an EVM Layer 2 secured by ZEC. Bridge your ZEC over, pay gas in ZEC, and run any Solidity contract with the Ethereum toolchain you already use.
Everything EVM. Settled with ZEC.
Full EVM equivalence
Deploy existing Solidity and Vyper contracts unchanged. Hardhat, Foundry, viem and MetaMask work with no adapter layer.
ZEC as native gas
No second token to hold just to transact. Every fee on Zander is paid directly in bridged ZEC.
Shielded on-ramp
Deposit from a shielded Zcash address; the amount and origin stay private up to the bridge boundary.
How the bridge works
Three steps, in order — each one has to finish before the next starts.
Send ZEC to the bridge
Send from any Zcash wallet to your personal deposit address, transparent or shielded.
ZEC is minted on Zander
After 6 Zcash confirmations (roughly 15 minutes), the same amount appears in your EVM address.
Use it, or withdraw anytime
Swap, lend or build. Withdrawals return ZEC to any Zcash address you choose.
Ship in minutes
Point your existing tooling at Zander's testnet RPC and deploy. Same opcodes, same JSON-RPC, same wallets — nothing to relearn.
// hardhat.config.ts networks: { zander: { url: "https://testnet-rpc.zander.network", chainId: 9001, accounts: [process.env.PRIVATE_KEY], }, } $ npx hardhat deploy --network zander