Digital asset infrastructure company Foundry Digital has announced plans to launch a Zcash mining pool specifically designed for institutional investors in April 2026, marking a significant expansion of its business from Bitcoin mining infrastructure into the privacy coin sector. The pool will be built on the existing technical architecture of Foundry USA Pool, headquartered in the United States, and aims to provide regulatory-compliant mining services to publicly listed mining companies and institutional clients.
The new pool will reportedly integrate professional reporting systems and payout mechanisms to meet the high standards of institutional-grade operations for transparency, audit trails, and financial reconciliation. Foundry stated that the launch of this service stems from a deep recognition of the value of financial privacy: "Financial privacy is the cornerstone of economic freedom, and privacy protection and compliant operations are not mutually exclusive, but can coexist."
Although Zcash has recently regained attention due to market volatility, its network hashrate remains highly concentrated in a few mining pools, and there is still room for improvement in the decentralization of the industry ecosystem. The introduction of this institutional-grade mining pool is expected to inject a more stable and compliant hashrate source into the Zcash network, promoting the maturity of privacy coin infrastructure.
