Overview
What Anew is, who it is for, and the one sentence that describes the whole system.
Anew lets you send shielded ZEC once and receive native ETH on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663) at an address you choose. The address can be a fresh one that your browser makes for the trip, with no transaction and no balance behind it. The site sums this up as "Buy in private, hold in the open."
The one sentence: Anew's website asks NEAR Intents for a quote that names your address as the recipient, you send shielded ZEC once to the deposit address that comes back, and a NEAR Intents solver pays native ETH on Robinhood Chain to that address.
The gap
Zcash keeps a sender's balance and history inside its shielded pool. Robinhood Chain publishes every transfer and every balance, as EVM chains do, and anyone can follow an address back to its first transaction.
The two familiar routes between them give the trip away. Selling ZEC on an exchange and withdrawing ETH hands the exchange both ends. Swapping into a wallet you already use pours the ETH into a history that people can tie to you. Anew packages a third route as one deposit on your side: a swap from the shielded pool into an address with no past, with that address as the only recipient.
What Anew does not run
- Anew runs no bridge. A NEAR Intents solver pays the ETH on Robinhood Chain, and Anew locks nothing and mints nothing.
- Anew mixes nothing. The privacy comes from Zcash's shielded pool, and the only Zcash step is a deshielding transaction that your own wallet sends.
- Anew holds no funds. The live quote names your address as the only recipient, and no Anew wallet sits anywhere on the road.
- Anew has no contract on Robinhood Chain. It deploys no hub, no vault and no pass contract, and it runs no relayer service.
- Anew keeps no accounts and no database of orders. Your orders and your fresh keys stay in your browser's localStorage.
The people it serves
- A Zcash holder who wants ETH on Robinhood Chain without routing the trip through an exchange.
- Someone who wants to start on Robinhood Chain from an address with no past, for example to buy $ANEW once it launches.
- A builder who wants a working example of the direct NEAR Intents rail, with the user's own address as the recipient.
The pieces
| Piece | Runs on | Its job |
|---|---|---|
| The site | Next.js 16 on Vercel | The home page with its calculator, the Start page, the Hold page, the Stats page, these docs and the whitepaper. |
| Four API routes | the same deployment | /api/quote, /api/status, /api/deposit and /api/rails pass requests to 1Click and store nothing. |
| Your browser | your machine | Makes fresh keys, keeps orders and keys in localStorage, reads Robinhood Chain from the public RPC, checks order status every ten seconds. |
| NEAR Intents 1Click | NEAR Intents | Issues the deposit address, runs the swap, pays the ETH to your address or refunds the ZEC. |
| Privy | loads on demand | Connects a wallet, if you pick that option. |
| $ANEW | Robinhood Chain, planned | The token a fresh address will buy after launch. Launching soon. |
Read Architecture for the whole system on one page, or Using Anew to make a first trip.