Plant a coin. Grow it in $ZEC.
Burn to harvest your share of the herd — atomic, on-chain, no trust required.
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zebra — a burn-to-earn protocol for solana tokens, stamped onto zcash.
https://t.co/fratBA3HvO
https://t.co/gBLBArkXCB
the idea is simple: burn supply, get paid. atomically, in the same instruction, no middlemen.
here's how it works
every token that opts into zebra gets its own herd — a wzec (wrapped zcash) vault funded by a slice of that token's trading fees (2%).
the fee splits four ways:
0.5% → into the herd (payouts)
0.5% → buy-and-burn of $ZEBRA (the stampede) 0.2% → protocol treasury
0.8% → the token's deployer
here's the core loop: any holder can call harvest_burn — burn some supply, get paid a pro-rata share of the herd, instantly.
the payout is computed against supply before the burn — that ordering is what stops anyone from getting silently overpaid. want real zec instead of wzec? attach a zcash address when you burn. the instruction writes an on-chain memo, and an offchain keeper watches for it and sends the matching zec payment.
being upfront here: the solana program itself is fully trustless — every value-moving path is verifiable on-chain, no admin backdoor to user funds. the keeper and the wzec bridge are trusted, centralized components by necessity — zcash has no smart contracts, so there's no way around that.
so: the math has been through a security pass (checked u128 everywhere, zero raw +/-/* on real amounts), but the program is not deployed with real funds yet — it's still in testing.
don't point real money at it before reading architecture.md in the repo. t
here's also an indexer with an open http api for every coin's activity — /explore and /coin/:mint. transparency is part of the protocol, not a marketing line.
open source, mit licensed, prs welcome.
burning is the only way out — and the only way to get paid.
burn your tokens → one atomic Solana instruction → your pro-rata share of the herd (herd × your tokens ÷ supply) comes back to you in ZEC. same tx, no separate claim step.
add a Zcash address, and a Memo-tagged stamp lands on Zcash mainnet — a receipt that you burned, cut to what you destroyed.
not a promise of privacy. that part's on Zcash's own shielded pool. this is just the receipt.
how ZEBRA actually works, part 1: the herd
every coin you plant runs on a bonding curve, paired to $ZEC instead of SOL.
every trade, a protocol-enforced cut doesn't go to some team wallet — it goes into an on-chain vault (PDA-owned, not a multisig). that's the herd.
no promises, no "trust us." it's in the fee split, enforced by the program itself.