Add Zcash as collateral to borrow MIM

Overview

Zcash is a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency providing anonymous value transfer using zero-knowledge cryptography. The protocol provides the option for transactions to be either shielded, in which case they will be completely anonymous, or transparent, in which case they will be visible on the Zcash blockchain.

Zcash is a wealthy and self-funding network, where slices of the mining rewards is distributed as follows.

Zcash is also a stock-market tradeable asset through the Grayscale $ZCSH product

As you can see Zcash has very strong backing by well respected crypto OGs and is in a early-stage booming expansion through partnerships with other cryptocurrencies and market-led focus.

Motivation

Believe it or not, but Zcash and DeFi is basically inexistant. However, I can witness there is demand for DeFi, because people often ask in our Zcash community telegram what they can do with their $ZEC (I am a Community admin, btw).
So, we are currently in a chicken and egg problem and I want to change the status quo with your kind help !

Also take a look at this tweet and you have my exact same feeling about Zcash.
I would like to be able to say the exact same thing about Zcash in a few month : borrowing from Zcash is very likely to be life-changing and I write this proposal to :

  • bootstrap DeFi with Zcash
  • enable Zcash holders to grow their wealth
  • increase Zcash’s usecases
  • increase MIM popularity with Zcash holders
  • bring joy and happiness

Bridging Zcash to MIM operated network

Similarly to Bitcoin, Zcash operates its own blockchain. So we will leverage bridging technology to operate on a network supported by the MIM protocol.

I propose to use the Ren Project and its bridge.

$renZEC is a crosschain token, but I suggest to keep this partnership trial on the Fantom Opera (FTM) network because of low fees and the stellar DeFi ecosystem.

Seeding liquidity

Talking numbers is too early at this stage, but if this proposal gets support by Abracadabra community, I will talk to the ZOMG grant commitee for validation and seeding liquidity will be requested through a Zcash grant

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