Quick tour of the ZERA stack and near-term product pipeline — from core rails to the fun edges. ✅ Protocol & Unified Pool (live mainnet internal testing) Direct-deposit ZK cash with USDC/USDT/SOL + more, on Solana to start, but designed as a chain-agnostic protocol that can extend to other networks and execution stacks over time. Same math, different settlement layers. ✅ ZERA Dashboard (mainnet beta internal testing) The first interface into that pool: mint/redeem notes, wire usage into $ZERA burn economics, and then take those notes fully offline by exporting them as files and moving them via USB, DMs, secure storage. ✅ Wallets (in progress) iOS/Android + browser-integrated flows for private transactions, shielded balances, and daily spend, with full offline note management and splitting. ✅ Hardware Wallet (in progress) A dedicated ZERA hardware wallet for high-assurance signing and offline cash handling, roughly challenge-coin sized, running full Linux on dual-core RISC-V with local on-device ZK. Because the offline notes are “just” cryptographic vouchers, they’re highly mobile and modal and don’t have to stay inside one app or one device. They can move like files, or dollar bills, outside traditional “send crypto” flows. That’s where the fun experiments come in. You may have seen the 3D-printed ZERA token mentioned: a physical ZERA token with an NFC chip inside, a single-use, collectible shell that can hold one offline note. Not the main UX but rather a playful proof-of-concept of what becomes possible when ZK cash can live fully offline on tags, cards, and devices. Same underlying note, multiple form factors: dashboards, wallets, hardware, cards… and, if you really want, a literal coin in your hand. The beta dashboard and near-term product pipeline is the first step, not the destination. ZERA’s longer arc is toward “Enterprise Cypherpunk” rails: a world where execution is private, verification is public, and users get cash-like privacy while businesses and regulators rely on proofs and deterministic audit hooks instead of peeking into everyone’s flows.

“Can crypto satisfy both privacy and compliance?” We think the forced choice is the wrong framing. ZERA’s whole design brief is a third door: ✅ Direct-deposit ZK cash → USDC/USDT/SOL +more into one unified pool, private notes out, fully reserved on-chain ✅ Non-custodial rails where the chain sees commitments + nullifiers, not user-level transaction logs and public flow. ✅ Explicit audit hooks and policy work, starting with the "Texas Privacy-First Digital Finance Act", so regulators get what they need without turning everyone and everything into an open ledger. As families argue about politics over Thanksgiving dinner, we’re arguing for something they should all be able to agree on: private-by-default digital money that can still live inside the law. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

You do understand what I do for a living? I literally am a decentralized financial privacy protocol and rebuilding cash on Solana.