zAVA FAQ
How mining with AVAX works, what it costs, where the money goes and how the halvings run. If your question is not here, ask it on X at @zAVA_Money and it will be answered in public.
What is zAVA?
zAVA is a token on the Avalanche C chain that is mined with AVAX. It has its own fixed supply of 21,000,000, released over 32 cycles. It is not wrapped AVAX and is never redeemable for AVAX. There was no presale and there is no team allocation: every zAVA in existence was paid for with AVAX at a rate the contract set in public.
How does mining zAVA work?
Connect a wallet on Avalanche at zava.money and commit any amount of AVAX. Your zAVA is minted right away at the current cycle's rate and held for you. After 24 hours you claim, and 90 percent of your AVAX comes back together with your zAVA, to your wallet or straight into the Shield.
What does it cost to mine zAVA?
In cycle 1 the mining rate is 0.002 AVAX per zAVA. Because 90 percent of what you commit comes back after 24 hours, the true cost is a tenth of that: 0.0002 AVAX per zAVA. Both numbers double every cycle, and the site always shows the live rate.
Where does the 10 percent that stays go?
It is split by constants that can never change. 4 percent deepens liquidity and the LP tokens are burned. 3 percent is paid to zAVA holders in AVAX. 2 percent buys zAVA off the market and burns it, but only while the market is below the true cost. 1 percent goes to operations.
When does the zAVA price double?
When the current cycle's allocation is mined out, and at no other time. There is no clock or deadline. The halving tracker shows how much zAVA is left in the current cycle and how much AVAX it takes to close it.
How many zAVA will ever exist?
21,000,000. Cycle 1 offers 10,500,000, half the supply. Each of the 32 cycles offers half of the one before at twice the rate. The cap is enforced in the token contract's own mint function, and the mining contract is its only minter.
Is there a presale, a team allocation or a treasury?
No. The only zAVA created outside of mining is the launch seed: 300,000 zAVA paired with 60 AVAX in the zAVA/WAVAX pool, with the LP tokens burned so nobody owns them or can pull them. It counts against cycle 1.
Can anyone change the contracts?
No. There is no owner, no admin, no pause and no upgrade path. Every parameter is a constant in the source, and all contracts are verified on Snowtrace.
How do holder dividends work?
3 percent of every commit is paid in AVAX to zAVA held in ordinary wallets, in proportion to balance. There is no staking, no lock and no claim deadline. You claim your dividends on the mine page whenever you like.
What is the buyback and burn?
2 percent of every commit queues in the buyback contract. Anyone can trigger it, and it runs only while the market price is below the current true cost. Every zAVA it buys is sent to the dead address, so the true cost acts as a standing bid under the market.
What is auto mode?
When you mine 0.1 AVAX or more you can choose to keep rolling through a cycle you pick. Once a position is 24 hours old, anyone may roll it for you: your zAVA is paid to you and your 90 percent is committed again in your name. There is no fee, and nobody rolling it can send anything anywhere else.
What is the Shield?
The Shield is a private pool for zAVA built on zero knowledge proofs. You deposit zAVA, send it to anyone without the chain recording who paid whom, and withdraw to any address. You can also claim a mine straight into it, so your zAVA never shows in a public balance. Every proof is built in your own browser.
Which wallets work with zAVA?
Any browser wallet that connects to the Avalanche C chain, such as Core, MetaMask, Rabby or OKX Wallet. The site asks your wallet to switch to Avalanche automatically if it is on another network.
Where can I trade zAVA?
zAVA trades in the zAVA/WAVAX pair on LFJ, the Avalanche exchange formerly known as Trader Joe. The pair address is listed on the mine page and the chart is on DEXTools.
What do I get back if I mine?
90 percent of your AVAX comes back after 24 hours, together with the zAVA you mined. The 10 percent that stays is the cost of mining and funds liquidity, holder dividends, the buyback and operations. zAVA trades on the open market, and its price there can be above or below what you paid.
More detail in the whitepaper and the glossary. Live numbers on the halving tracker.