Digital asset infrastructure firm Foundry Digital plans to kick off a mining pool for Zcash in April 2026, branching out beyond its established Bitcoin mining services. The new pool aims to cater to institutional clients and publicly traded miners, focusing on compliance-oriented mining solutions.
This mining pool will be US-based, utilizing the same infrastructure as Foundry USA Pool, which is managed by the company. Foundry aims to equip the pool with comprehensive reporting tools and payout systems that align with the operational needs of institutional miners.
Zcash stands out as a privacy-centric cryptocurrency featuring an encrypted ledger employing zero-knowledge proofs. A mining pool enables multiple miners to consolidate their computational resources and share block rewards, enhancing their likelihood of receiving steady payouts.
A representative from Foundry shared: “Zcash addresses something we believe is genuinely important: the idea that financial privacy is foundational to economic freedom, and that privacy and compliance can coexist.”
They further explained:
“When institutional and public miners can mine Zcash through infrastructure built to their standards, it brings new hashrate to the network and strengthens its security.”
Founded in 2019, Foundry Digital offers mining infrastructure and auxiliary services to firms in the digital asset sector. Its Foundry USA Pool ranks among the largest Bitcoin mining pools by hashrate share. Foundry anticipates the Zcash pool commencing operations in April 2026.
This news aligns closely with the recent $25 million funding raised by developers formerly associated with Electric Coin Company, aimed at advancing a privacy-centric wallet for Zcash.
Zcash Gains Traction amid Price Fluctuations
Launched in 2016, Zcash provides users with the ability to conduct transactions while keeping details like wallet addresses or amounts private. The network is fundamentally based on Bitcoin’s codebase but incorporates zero-knowledge proofs, known as zk-SNARKs, for optional “shielded” transactions in addition to standard transparent ones.
In 2025, Zcash emerged as a focal point in discussions surrounding privacy-oriented assets, with insights from prominent industry figures, such as Arthur Hayes, Naval Ravikant, and Mert Mumtaz, significantly boosting interest in the network and its native token, ZEC. The price of Zcash surged nearly 600% within a year, moving from under $35 in March 2025 to almost $698.87 by November 16, 2025.
Despite this resurgence, the mining activity for the cryptocurrency remains concentrated among a few significant pools, with data from Poolbay indicating that ViaBTC controls about 31.7% of the total hashrate, trailed by F2Pool at around 15.8%.
