Shielded Quest
Practice hunt. The answers are in the hints, so you can see the whole flow in about a minute. The prize and the transactions are real (on testnet).

Practice: First Steps

2 stages · published 2026-10-22

Checking the pot…

Stage 1Stage 2

Clue 1

Stage 1 of 2. What do you call Zcash that hides the sender, the receiver and the amount? Hint: the answer is “shielded”.

Checked here in your browser. Your guesses are never sent anywhere. Case, accents and punctuation don't matter.

Verify it yourself

The prize. Import this viewing key into any Zcash wallet or tool that accepts one (for example zcash-devtool) and you'll see the pot's balance without trusting this site. It can see the pot but can't spend from it.

uviewtest1ra95avzlfjxe5t6srx63rwctnwf9hxjn9593w7yfly8d07zcklywa3sdydmthvrpals87rejrcmuk94u5xnmzgmg02pkcek0zmjrgd9srtwuyud9mnlthd58y5exmry3t5mm09plvuzjz87p0jn9q949ylp5az2qcl7f2sk4wthclmw2xnneepzaldv5kddsuhw70y4t9ml05ff3ctp737zgse7rlcp995qwdxsanwhudxmmhfn6gha952e3a4yvl8wn7tsmnr28kcsl355w8ns4ayqsca578j0c5unxfcrw8x70xjf4je4jrzkhd86jwcy82zmtzt4ff0p7pgz0qpx88fgdpa098u9n6sqd9nx97vt8kkj5dnjfxhlff8numkvlq4sjrr58a

Pot address

utest1vr5t5qgrfzz8mq28wvz2e64z5j36rt67k0v2j2fmx78gvtv2x5n0xvyfehq5dpvhf65z2qpjqpfuc2229n285v5tlv47s0evmh892yylzeve8pkculkxvc9p4efaujq5y0tndx6p7dtq4agrt08z2kpnkc93d42v78atp0vk6sywen70

Birthday height (where to start scanning)

4528061

Check it with zcash-devtool

zcash-devtool wallet -w ./pot-check init-fvk --name pot \
  --fvk uviewtest1ra95avzlfjxe5t6srx63rwctnwf9hxjn9593w7yfly8d07zcklywa3sdydmthvrpals87rejrcmuk94u5xnmzgmg02pkcek0zmjrgd9srtwuyud9mnlthd58y5exmry3t5mm09plvuzjz87p0jn9q949ylp5az2qcl7f2sk4wthclmw2xnneepzaldv5kddsuhw70y4t9ml05ff3ctp737zgse7rlcp995qwdxsanwhudxmmhfn6gha952e3a4yvl8wn7tsmnr28kcsl355w8ns4ayqsca578j0c5unxfcrw8x70xjf4je4jrzkhd86jwcy82zmtzt4ff0p7pgz0qpx88fgdpa098u9n6sqd9nx97vt8kkj5dnjfxhlff8numkvlq4sjrr58a \
  --birthday 4528061 -s testnet.zec.rocks:443
zcash-devtool wallet -w ./pot-check sync -s testnet.zec.rocks:443
zcash-devtool wallet -w ./pot-check balance

Step by step: Verify it yourself.

The hunt. Everything your browser needs to solve this hunt is in one public file: the first clue and the locked stages. Save a copy. If its SHA-256 ever stops matching the fingerprint below, the hunt was changed after publishing.

Fingerprint (SHA-256)

549674d9d843528b259524a0e283ee00409d0ad6061608dd4087522f52044da2
Download the hunt file