Overview
- Foundry’s new pool, which went live Monday, quickly reached about 30% of Zcash hashrate through onboarding by multiple institutional miners.
- Alongside the launch, Foundry released Zcashinfo.com, a real-time explorer that shows pool rankings, hashrate split, recent blocks, and mining difficulty.
- The pool pays miners using a pay-per-last-N-shares model with transparent addresses, and onboarding centers on regulated entities.
- Zcash’s price rose roughly 75% over the past month after Foundry disclosed the plan in March, outpacing the broader crypto market.
- Foundry runs the largest Bitcoin pool with about 31% of production, so its entry serves as a notable endorsement for Zcash among major miners.