Peer launches direct fiat-to-Zcash onramp without KYC or intermediaries

NEAR Intents has already done 19M swaps and $14B across 35 chains, so Peer is giving ZEC a solver-backed distribution rail instead of depending on exchange access. The next choke point moves from CEX compliance desks to Venmo/Revolut risk models on the fiat leg, and Mert’s demo showed the coins still land unshielded first, so default shielding is the make-or-break detail here. If Brave, Zodl and Peer smooth that last hop, privacy coins finally get an access stack that feels native instead of patched together.

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