Overview

Zecpass is the pass from Zcash to Robinhood Chain. A person pays in shielded ZEC and receives $ZECPASS, a Pons V2 token on Robinhood Chain, at any address they choose. Nothing on Robinhood Chain links that address to the ZEC that paid for it.

The one sentence: NEAR Intents turns shielded ZEC into ETH on Arbitrum One, Relay carries that ETH to a pass on Robinhood Chain, and the Zecpass hub sweeps the pass into $ZECPASS for the beneficiary.

Why it exists

Zcash is the only widely traded asset whose history can be truly private. Robinhood Chain is where tokenised stocks and the Pons launcher live, and it is as transparent as every EVM chain. There was no road between the two that kept the Zcash side private and the Robinhood side non-custodial. Zecpass is that road, kept as short as possible.

What it is not

• Not a bridge. Zecpass does not lock or mint anything. The bridging is done by NEAR Intents and Relay, two live products with their own liquidity and their own guarantees.
• Not a mixer. The privacy comes from Zcash's shielded pool. Zecpass adds nothing to it and takes nothing from it, except a deshielding transaction that any Zcash user could send.
• Not a custodian. The only moment a Zecpass key holds user value is on Arbitrum One, between the NEAR Intents settlement and the Relay deposit, a window measured in seconds and bounded by the amount of one order. Everything on Robinhood Chain is either in the user's pass (which only the beneficiary can empty) or already at the beneficiary's address.
• Not an exchange for stocks. Version one buys one thing: $ZECPASS on Pons. Buying tokenised stocks with the same rails is a design question covered in the whitepaper, not a feature.

Who it is for

• A Zcash holder who wants exposure to a Robinhood Chain token without sending ZEC to an exchange.
• A trader who keeps their treasury in shielded ZEC and wants to enter a launch from an address that has no past.
• A builder who wants a worked example of shielded funds entering an EVM chain with the smallest possible trusted surface.

The pieces

Piece	Where	What it does
The site	web/, Vercel	Quotes, orders, these docs, the whitepaper, live stats.
The relayer	relayer/, Fly.io	Asks NEAR Intents for deposit addresses, watches settlements, sends the Relay bridge transaction, triggers sweeps.
The hub	contracts/, Robinhood Chain	Holds the vault, computes pass addresses, sweeps passes into $ZECPASS, keeps the fee.
The passes	Robinhood Chain	One deterministic contract address per beneficiary; only the hub can move its ETH into a buy, only the beneficiary can withdraw it raw.
$ZECPASS	Pons V2	The token. Its creator tax and the hub fee fund everything above.

Continue with Architecture for the full diagram, or Using Zecpass if you just want a pass.