Binance’s Trust Wallet eyes privacy projects, adds Zcoin + Zcash

Trust Wallet, a Binance-backed multi-cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized applications (DApps) browser, today announced it has integrated Zcoin (XZC), a privacy coin from the pioneers of the Zerocoin protocol.

As part of Trust Wallet’s ongoing commitment to privacy projects, it has now integrated Zcoin and Zcash to build on their larger mission for the cryptocurrency community to benefit from their unique privacy features.

Zcoin’s integration follows Trust Wallet’s acquisition from leading global cryptocurrency exchange, Binance last year. Since then, Trust Wallet has developed its integration for the launch of Binance Chain and its corresponding decentralized exchange (DEX) to provide the first native decentralized wallet for DEX and support the new native Binance coin (BNB) on Binance Chain.

Zcoin is the privacy coin which first pioneered the use of the Zerocoin Protocol. It is also the first coin to implement Merkle Tree Proofs on its network for egalitarian mining, as well as the Dandelion protocol which protects user identities by obscuring their IP addresses. Zcoin’s blockchain was most recently used to help Thailand’s Democrat Party carry out its primary elections to select its party leader involving more than 120,000 votes cast nationwide which marks the world’s first use of the technology in a large scale political election.

The Trust Wallet team also reported it is soon expanding from its mobile roots to both mobile and desktop, while maintaining its priority as a “mobile-first wallet” to help the world of decentralized applications, payments, and cryptocurrency management to be easier and more accessible for the mainstream.