Buy Zcash with USDT0
You can swap USDT0 for native ZEC — real Zcash on the Zcash chain, sent straight to your own wallet — in ~2 minutes, with no account and no sign-up. 1 ZEC costs about 1,566.87 USDT0 ($1,566.36), so 1 USDT0 buys about 0.000638215 ZEC.
How it works
- Say how much USDT0 you're spending and paste the Zcash address you want the ZEC to land in. Any ZEC wallet works.
- You get a one-time deposit address. Send your USDT0 to it from any wallet or exchange — nothing is connected, nothing is approved.
- Solvers compete to fill it and the ZEC arrives at your address. buyz.cash never holds your coins at any point.
Which chain should you send USDT0 from?
USDT0 is accepted from 5 chains. They all end in the same place — native ZEC — so pick whichever your USDT0 is already on. Network fees are paid by you to that chain, not to us, so a cheap chain is a cheaper swap.
| Chain | Minimum | Typical time | You send to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monad | no minimum | ~2 minutes | address |
| X Layer | no minimum | ~2 minutes | address |
| Arbitrum | no minimum | ~2 minutes | address |
| Plasma | no minimum | ~2 minutes | address |
| Berachain | no minimum | ~3 minutes | address |
What it costs
The rate you're quoted is what you get — the fee is inside it, not added at the end. It is made of three parts: the solver's spread (the market price of filling your swap), a 20 bps routing fee, and a flat Zcash network fee of 0.00032 ZEC to deliver the coins. On top of that you pay your own chain's fee to send the USDT0, which goes to that network, not to us.
Because the Zcash delivery fee is flat, small swaps cost proportionally more. Around $25.00 it is a meaningful slice; by $1,000.00 it is rounding. There is no minimum beyond what each chain enforces.
Questions
- How long does a USDT0 to ZEC swap take?
- Usually ~2 minutes once your USDT0 deposit confirms. Most of that is waiting for confirmations on the chain you send from; the swap itself settles in seconds.
- Do I need an account to swap USDT0 for Zcash?
- No. There is no sign-up, no email and no KYC on buyz.cash. You paste a Zcash address, send your coins to a one-time deposit address, and the ZEC arrives.
- Is this real Zcash or a wrapped token?
- Real ZEC on the Zcash chain, delivered to your own Zcash address. It is not a wrapped representation on another chain, so it behaves like any other ZEC in your wallet.
- What is the USDT0 to ZEC rate right now?
- About 1,566.87 USDT0 per ZEC, with ZEC around $1,566.36. The binding rate is the one quoted when you start a swap, and it is locked for that swap.
- Can I send to a shielded Zcash address?
- Paste whichever address your wallet gives you. Transparent addresses are accepted everywhere; support for shielded and unified addresses depends on what the network validates at the time, and the quote will tell you immediately if an address is rejected.
- What happens if the swap fails?
- Your coins go back to the refund address you gave when you started, on the chain you sent from. That is why it is asked for up front — it is not optional decoration.
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