Sherpa (SHERPA) is a cryptocurrency that belongs to the platform Sherpa Cash, a decentralized community-owned protocol for private transactions on the Avalanche network. Sherpa Cash seeks to improve transaction privacy by breaking the on-chain link between the source and the destination addresses. The protocol uses a smart contract. Private transactions are crucial for a robust decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The Sherpa Cash protocol aims to bring this essential factor to users and projects on the Avalanche network by encouraging them to transact safely.

As per the whitepaper, the Sherpa Cash contracts are a fork of Tornado Cash. The protocol seeks to create a private transaction network. Private transactions help individuals who demand complete anonymity and privacy by removing the link between the sender and receiver of a transaction. As Tornado has become the privacy benchmark, the Sherpa Cash network has implemented Tornado's contracts and monitors any upgrades required in the future. Using a trusted and tested protocol seeks to allow Avalanche users to feel safe using Sherpa Cash. The Sherpa Cash aims to offer:

Hari Seldon founded the Sherpa Cash in 2021. Hari Seldon or Justin Trollip serves the network as a project manager. Trollip is the CEO of Pangolin Exchange and also founded an open-source enterprise resource planning platform Kudoo. He is a commerce, economics, and business management graduate from the University of South Africa.

SHERPA has a maximum total supply of 10,000,000 tokens.