PANews reported on February 19th that, according to Cointelegraph, Dash, a privacy-preserving Layer-1 blockchain protocol, announced the integration of Zcash's "Orchard" shielding pool into the Dash Evolution chain, a second-level layer on the L1 network that supports smart contract functionality.

The integration will go live after a cybersecurity audit is completed, and is expected to launch in March. Initially, the integration will support basic Zcash transfer functionality. The announcement states that the transaction will be transferred from one party to another on the Evolution chain, and subsequent upgrades will add Orchard's privacy features for tokenized real-world assets (RWA).