Open-source Zcash research and accounting

How private is Zcash, right now?

A live look at the shield rate, network health, and any transparent address. This dashboard only ever touches public data. For private accounting on your own shielded addresses, use the local ZecLedger tool, where your keys never leave your machine.

What ZecLedger is

open source · built privacy-first

ZecLedger is a free, open-source tool for understanding and keeping accounts on Zcash. It answers two kinds of questions: how the Zcash network is doing as a whole, and what is happening with a specific set of addresses. It is built so that the private things stay private.

It comes in two pieces, on purpose. One is public and safe to use from a browser. The other runs on your own machine, for anything that touches your private keys.

This dashboard · public, no keys

What you are looking at now. It reads only public Zcash data: the live shield rate, network and fee health, and the history of any transparent address. It never asks for a key or a login, and it cannot see inside the shielded pool. Open the link, get answers.

The local tool · private, keys stay with you

A separate tool you run on your own computer. It handles your own shielded balances, private accounting and payments. Your viewing key never leaves your machine and is never sent to any server, including ours. Privacy you do not have to take on trust.

What you can do with it

today and coming soon

Research the networkLIVE

Track the real shield rate, watch how much value is entering or leaving the shielded pool, and follow fees and network health over time. The same data behind our public research reports.

Account for transparent addressesLIVE

Look up the balance and full history of any transparent (t) address, yours or anyone's, since that data is public by design.

Private accounting on your own ZECCOMING

See your own shielded balances and history, computed locally from your viewing key, with nothing leaving your machine. In the local tool.

Payments and bookkeepingCOMING

Track payments, fees and simple books for individuals and small projects that use ZEC. In the local tool.

How it keeps you safe. The public dashboard only ever touches public data, so there is nothing sensitive to leak. Anything involving your keys runs locally in the tool you control, never on a server. The code is open source, so you do not have to trust a claim, you can read it. And every research figure is reproducible from the methods we publish.

Who it is for

and why it exists

For Zcash users who want clear, honest answers about their own activity and the network, for researchers who want reproducible privacy metrics instead of marketing numbers, and for builders who want a base to work from. ZecLedger started as a research project and is growing into a full accounting tool, in step with where Zcash itself is heading.

Open source at github.com/vancube2/zecledger. Public data shown here comes from Blockchair. Shield-rate figures are floors, not totals, because fully private transactions cannot be seen from outside the pool.