FAQ

Short answers, with links to the pages that hold the long ones.

Is Anew a mixer? No. Value leaves Zcash's shielded pool through one NEAR Intents swap and lands at your address. The privacy belongs to Zcash, and Anew pools nothing and mixes nothing.

Is Anew a bridge? Anew runs none. A NEAR Intents solver pays the ETH on Robinhood Chain, and Relay appears on the site only as a fallback price.

Do I need an account or a wallet connection? No account and no email. You can make a fresh address in your browser and connect nothing. Connecting a wallet through Privy only fills in the receiving address.

Does the refund address have to be transparent? On Anew, yes. NEAR Intents documents transparent addresses for Zcash refunds, so the Start page accepts t1 and t3 addresses and refuses shielded and TEX ones. A refund to that address is public on Zcash, and the public 1Click status of your deposit address names it, so make a new one for each trip.

Is there a minimum or a maximum? The Start page takes 0.01 to 2 ZEC per trip. Below 0.01 ZEC, solvers often decline to quote. For more than 2 ZEC, split the amount across trips at different times, which also helps privacy. On 2026-09-22 quotes above about 2 ZEC failed often, so smaller trips had a better chance.

Is there a time limit to send? Yes. Send as soon as the deposit address appears. The site asks for a thirty-minute deadline, and NEAR Intents documents a refund, minus the refund fee, for a swap not completed by then. The page counts down to that deadline, and shows the later date, about three days out, when the deposit address goes inactive.

Does a trip take long? Each quote carries 1Click's own time estimate, counted from the moment your deposit confirms. On 2026-09-22 it was 454 seconds, about seven and a half minutes. Nine completed ZEC swaps into Robinhood Chain checked that day took 3.3 to 19.2 minutes from quote to SUCCESS, including the time their senders took.

Does it cost anything beyond the quote? The ETH the quote shows is what arrives, net of the solver's rate, the app fees and the delivery fee on Robinhood Chain (0.00001 ETH, observed on 2026-09-22). A refund carries a refund fee in ZEC (0.00032 ZEC, observed the same day). Your Zcash wallet charges its own network fee for the send.

Can the price move against me? Within 1%. The quote carries a 1% slippage tolerance, and if the price moves further before a solver fills, NEAR Intents refunds the ZEC after the deadline, minus the refund fee.

Does Anew take a fee? Not at the time of writing. The planned fee is 50 bps (0.5%) inside the quote, and the code caps it at 200 bps. The operator has set no fee recipient, so the site shows zero.

Is the app fee in the quote Anew's? No. Without a partner key, 1Click adds a platform fee to the swap: 20 bps on 2026-09-23 and 25 bps the day before, so read the figure in your own quote rather than here. It goes to a NEAR account that is not Anew's, and it stays when Anew adds a fee of its own. The home calculator shows the total of the app fees and Anew's share on separate lines.

Can Anew take my ETH? Anew's code never holds it: the quote names your address as the only recipient, and the solver pays that address. The risk sits in the code the site serves, since a compromised site could quote its own address. The deposit screen shows the recipient that NEAR Intents recorded, and its Check it yourself link lets you read the same record at 1Click. Security covers both checks.

Can I use a fresh address twice? The Start page does not offer a fresh address again once it has received, because two trips to one address link them. Pasting it in by hand triggers the history check.

Can I get the key back if I clear my browser? Only from the backup file you downloaded. Anew keeps no copy anywhere.

Does Anew keep a record of my trip? No Anew server keeps a list. The order stays in your browser under anew.orders. NEAR Intents keeps the swap and its explorer shows it, and the host keeps its standard request logs.

Do I have to paste the Zcash transaction id? No. It helps NEAR Intents pick the deposit up sooner, and NEAR Intents finds the deposit without it.

Can I pay from a transparent balance? The deposit address accepts it, but the trip loses its point: with no deshield, the Zcash side is as public as the Robinhood Chain side.

Is $ANEW live? Not yet. It launches on Robinhood Chain, and the site shows no contract until one exists. Until then every trip ends in ETH.

Can I check what the page sends? Yes. Open your browser's developer tools. Quotes, statuses and transaction ids go to Anew's /api routes, chain reads go to the public RPC, and the Content Security Policy lets the page connect to nothing else apart from the hosts Privy and WalletConnect need.

Is there someone to contact? The X account linked in the footer. Share a deposit address in a private message only.