Zano (ZANO)

Zano – Pavel Nikienkov, co-founder

"Strip self-custody or permissionless access away, and what's left is theatre. Any platform that hands users to a custodian and calls it convenience, or hides a switch that can cut you off without warning, is rebuilding the old system inside a new shell." – Pavel Nikienkov, co-founder, @zano_project.

Zano doesn't soften it, and they shouldn't. The next decade of this industry comes down to how seriously projects treat self-custody and permissionless access. Everything else is a new shell on the old system.

Pavel's full quote runs in our new long read on the second decade of self-custody, next to perspectives from ELLIPAL and Swapzone → https://t.co/SZdXLxV5cX

Spending Freedom Dollar ($fUSD) in Nigeria is now as simple as making any other everyday purchase.

This video shows a payment being made at Dellamond Mall in Abuja using AEON Pay, with settlement powered by Zano's privacy infrastructure.

Until recently, spending privacy-focused digital assets often required multiple steps: finding a buyer, converting to fiat, waiting for transfers, and only then completing a purchase.

Today, users can load $fUSD or $ZANO into AEON Pay and pay directly at merchants while the merchant receives local currency instantly.

The result is a seamless payment experience that preserves user privacy without sacrificing convenience.

This is a practical example of how Zano is helping bring private digital payments into everyday commerce across Nigeria, making it possible to spend privacy-preserving money at supermarkets, restaurants, pharmacies, and millions of other merchants worldwide.

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The Zano Private Economy Conference has officially come to an end and what an incredible success it was! 🔒🔥

📌 Over 1,200 registrations
📌 More than 600 attendees in attendance
Attendees experienced firsthand what the Privacy Economy looks like in the real world through live demonstrations, hands-on onboarding sessions, merchant payment showcases, and in-depth discussions around privacy, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance.

The conference featured presentations on blockchain fundamentals, the future of digital money, financial freedom, privacy-preserving technologies, and why privacy must become a standard if crypto is to achieve mainstream adoption, especially across Africa.

Participants learned about Zano's privacy-by-default architecture, Confidential Assets, Freedom Dollar (fUSD), private Bitcoin through BTCx, and the growing ecosystem of tools being built on Zano. Hundreds of attendees downloaded the Zano wallet, created their first aliases, received ZANO, and experienced truly private on-chain tr