How Zookr works.

Zookr is a launchpad on BNB Smart Chain whose tokens pay their holders automatic rewards in ZEC. You hold tokens in your own wallet. There is no staking deposit, no claim transaction and no registration.

Every token launched through Zookr carries a fixed 2% creator fee on buys and sells. The fee is collected in BNB, converted to native ZEC held in Zookr's shielded pool, and credited to that token's reward pool. Every ten minutes a round splits the credited ZEC pro-rata across eligible holders. Every two hours, each holder's earned ZEC is paid to the holder's own wallet as zkZEC, a token backed 1:1 by the pool and redeemable for native shielded Zcash at any time.

Launching a token

Open Launch, connect a wallet on BNB Smart Chain, fill in a name, symbol, image and optional links, and sign one transaction. The launchpad deploys the token on Flap (1,000,000,000 supply, BNB-quoted bonding curve, graduation to a Uniswap V4 pool at 4.2 BNB) with a fresh fee vault as the creator-fee recipient.

Fees to ZEC

Creator tax accrues on the bonding curve until swept, and is credited to the token's vault. Once a vault holds at least 0.003 BNB, the rounds engine collects it, quotes a swap from BNB Smart Chain BNB to native ZEC (via NEAR Intents), and sends the BNB to the swap deposit address. When the swap lands, the ZEC arrives at the pool's transparent address, is shielded, and 90% is credited to the token's pool, 10% to the platform pool.

Collected fees, funded ZEC, earned rewards and completed payments are separate stages; each token's page shows all four.

Who qualifies?

Holding is passive: keep a launched token in your own wallet and it qualifies for reward rounds. Amounts are tracked as lots, so you can hold 1,500 tokens while only 1,000 are eligible for the next round. Contracts - the bonding curve, the vault, liquidity pools - and burn addresses are never holders.

Each round is split strictly pro-rata: your share equals your eligible tokens divided by all eligible tokens held by real wallets. Tokens sitting on the curve or burned are left out of that denominator, so a wallet holding 0.5% of the total supply receives more than 0.5% of the round - the same rule for everyone, with nothing set aside for anyone.

Reward rounds

Rounds are scheduled every ten minutes from the launch. A newly acquired amount skips the next scheduled round and qualifies for the following one. A round's allocation is final the moment the round is processed - selling afterwards does not erase it.

A round allocates whatever ZEC has been credited to that token and not yet allocated, as long as the shielded pool can cover it. With no new fees, rounds pass with no allocation.

Selling and transfers

Outgoing amounts consume your newest lots first. Only the affected portion loses its pending eligibility. A transfer creates fresh eligibility for the receiver, and buying back does not restore the waiting time of the tokens you sold.

Payments and the minimum

Payments are automatic and need nothing from you. Every two hours, each wallet with at least the minimum (0.001 ZEC) of accrued rewards, counted across every token, receives that amount in its own wallet as zkZEC. Below-minimum amounts are not lost; they remain owed and keep accumulating. Rounds keep allocating every ten minutes in between; the payment window just collects them.

zkZEC is Zookr's ZEC token on BNB Smart Chain: 8 decimals, 1 unit = 1 zatoshi, so 1 zkZEC = 1 ZEC. Every unit in circulation is backed by native ZEC in the shielded pool; the pool balance, the supply and the coverage are published every round. Contract: TBA. Add it to your wallet from the dashboard to see the balance.

Redeeming to native Zcash

Optional, any time, any amount from 0.001 ZEC. On the dashboard, enter the amount and a mainnet Unified Address starting with u1 (Zashi, Ywallet or Nighthawk give you one; exchange t1 addresses cannot receive shielded funds) and click Redeem. Your zkZEC is burned on BNB Smart Chain and the rounds engine sends the same amount of shielded ZEC to that address on its next run, usually within ten minutes.

Follow your rewards

The dashboard is personal to the connected wallet: your zkZEC balance, pending (what the next round would give at your current eligibility), earned not yet paid, ZEC received, your holdings per token, every payment with its transaction, and your redemptions with their Zcash transaction. Each token page shows its fees, conversions, funded ZEC and who the next round pays.

Check a payment yourself

Payments are zkZEC mints: public transactions on BNB Smart Chain you can open on the explorer, one per payout window, listing every wallet and amount. Redemptions list the Zcash transaction id; shielded transactions reveal nothing on a block explorer beyond their existence, so the receipt is the wallet: the ZEC lands at the u1 address you gave. The memo on each payout names the redemption id.

What you are trusting

The launchpad and zkZEC are contracts with narrow operator powers: the launchpad's operator can only move vault BNB out for conversion, and zkZEC's operator can only mint. Everything else is operated: the pool is a shielded Zcash wallet the operator holds, and the rounds engine is a scheduled job that reads BNB Smart Chain and publishes its state. zkZEC is a claim on that pool, so you are trusting the operator to keep it fully backed, keep the job running, and pay redemptions. The published pool balance against the zkZEC supply is the number to watch.