08 - Network State Conference 2026 - Josh Lee on People First Crypto Wallets

Cool. Uh hello everyone. My name is Josh Lee and I'm co-founder at Fiser. And Visor is uh currently the fastest growing wallet in Ccash. Um Visor is currently available on both mobile and desktop. And we built Visor because we basically wanted to connect this powerful technology that's been building for Zcash into an experiment into an experience that the average person can use. Um, ultimately, you know, I feel like Zcash is one of the most underrated uh cryptocurrency and and protocol in the entire world. uh from my experience interacting and getting to know Zcash um it leads in in zero knowledge cryptography uh and applying that to privacy uh it's at the forefront of leading postquantum efforts and applying that to its protocol and every person that I've met uh and interacted with in Zcash are some of the most brilliant and also uh dedicated people that I've met however uh there there is a lot of um kind of friction in in getting to use Zcash and for me that has felt like there's a lot of potential energy that is stored in Zcash in the past you know 9 10 years of it existence and the goal for Visor has been to turn that uh lots of potential energy into kinetic energy and that means getting it out into hands of users and making the experience of using Zcash Whether that's through holding it, sending it, or spending it uh extremely good. Um, cool. Going to actually go start with the gift cards first. Uh but if you go to the Zcash Labs booth uh in the back uh or some of you guys have may already receive some gift cards uh we basically shift uh gift card feature for Zcash and what what's really cool about this is this is a fully non-custodial open-source open standard that has existed in Zcash for many times and we basically sort of flipped that and turned that into a package that felt coherent and and good to use. So, let's say for example, you know, up to now, if I wanted to gift my friend some Ze uh for, you know, his or her birthday, uh you'd have to basically walk them through creating a wallet and they wouldn't even know what a wallet is and have them download, have them create a wallet, you know, back up their seed phrase. Um, seems Okay, sorry. Seems like the video wasn't rolling. Uh but yeah and and it'll be the a lot of this back and forth of hey what's what's seg what which wallet do I use um how do I onboard etc etc and you know with gift cards and I'm sure some of you guys have already tried this uh you basically get to scan a QR code and instantly you you see the amount that you're about to receive and just basically walk you through a very seamless process of creating a wallet and claiming that gift card. Um and and and the coolest part of this is this is fully open. Uh and this was a standard that has existed in Zcash for many years and it's just that no one has actually decided to put uh enough effort into turning that into experience that felt rewarding and good to use and that I felt like that was a very great example of of our philosophy. Um, and another part, you know, that we're hoping to ship uh very quick soon is uh making shielding uh a pleasure. So, not sure if the video is going to roll. There you go. Yeah. See, so you know, uh we feel like shielding is such a critical part of the Zcash experience and what makes Zcash uh unique. Uh, and a lot of times right now there's a shield now button where you know you click it and it turns your transparenc into shielded ze. Uh, but we felt like that meant something, right? When someone downloads a wallet, brings their transparenc that may have remained dormant on exchanges for many many years or months or however long into a wallet. That's a that's a big commitment that they're walking through and we wanted to uh have that moment to feel rewarding uh and exciting. uh and and we hope to sort of apply this philosophy in other areas of Zcash uh and hopefully make the experience of using Zcash uh much more pleasurable experience. Sorry. Um ultimately we want our goal to be to get Ze in the hands of 100 million users. Uh we're very new. We're new kids on the block. We've only uh we started working on this product six months ago uh with a very small team and it's been four months since our release. So uh we made a tremendous amount of progress uh in the past six months uh and we believe that we can continue to accelerate. So if you have any questions feel free to catch me after this talk and if you're curious about what Visor is or if you want to download and try that uh you can check it out at visor.cashe. Thank you.