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Network Stats | Oct 25th - Nov 1st Transfer Count: 186,034I: 96,175O: 1677S: 3009 T: 85,173 Transaction Count: 76917I: 44,399O: 420S: 1458T: 31,118 Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)I: -7521O: 3003S: -8695 Chain Supply (ZEC): 17,018,164I: 4,185,576O: 342,824S: 428,730T: 11,974,389SP: 13,169Lockbox: 73,473 Total Shielded Supply: 5,043,775

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Valar Group, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Zodl is ready for NU7 with v3.19.0: update the app before November 5 - @zodl_app

• Zodl 3.18.0 adds View-Only Wallets: see your balance without keeping spending keys on the device - @zodl_app

• You can now import viewing keys in Zodl - @Zcash

• ZODL Summit: shielded ZEC in the hands of billions, January 19 to 21 in Punta Cana - @zodl_co

• 10 years of Zcash. Onward. - @zodl_co

• Today marks 10 years of Zcash: a decade of cryptographic breakthroughs - @Zcash

• The greatest montage in crypto history, for Zcash’s 10th birthday - @Zcash

• 10 network upgrades in Zcash’s first 10 years - @Zcash

• Ten years of Zcash is ten years of people - @ZcashFoundation

• No Arborist Call this week; the next call is November 12th - @ZcashFoundation

• Happy birthday, Zcash: 10 years since “the most uneventful launch ever” - @ShieldedLabs

• The NSM does not change where newly issued ZEC goes - @ShieldedLabs

• Zooko’s 10th birthday message to the Zcash community - Zcash Community Forum

• Zooko announces BLAKE3-Servil, a faster and more secure BLAKE3 implementation built with AI agents - @zooko

• Sapling should be turned off for a while, the way Sprout was - @ebfull

• Zcash Network Upgrade 7 is approaching: make sure your wallets are updated - @Zcash

• Zebra Ándale (7.1.0-alpha.0), the fastest Zebra yet, built from miner feedback at Zcon7 - @ZcashFoundation

• Josh Swihart on why AI makes Zcash inevitable, at Token2049 - @zodl_app

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• ZCG proposes donating about 36,200 ZEC to future block rewards and giving up about 62,000 ZEC of its funding - @ZcashCommGrants

• Q4 Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grant Program: call for proposals

• ZCG gets too much ZEC. Here’s our plan to fix that.

• Draft ZIP to end the ZCG funding stream - @ebfull

• End ZCG and send its funds to the NSM

• Draft ZIP: Dev Fund Soft Landing - dismad

• Poll: what does the community think about ZCG?

• If the dev fund is dissolved, both the ZCG and coinholder streams should go - @jswihart

• Two calculators to explore the Dev Fund numbers - @openzcash

• Coinholder Grants Q4 2026: proposals open October 30 and close November 13; voting runs December 17 to 29 - @openzcash

• Grant application: Authenticated Shielded Sync Gateway

• Grant application: post-quantum readiness inventory for the Zcash stack

• Grant application: Unpair, a route aggregator through the shielded pool

• Grant application: Zbeam, a trustless gRPC network for Zcash

• HoudiniSwap retroactive grant application - Zcash Community Forum

• ZIP 1016 grant proposal: a growth strategy for Zcash after the upgrade, for 2027 - Zcash Community Forum

• Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund ZIP: Tachyon Group and Shielded Labs propose ending ZCG’s future funding - Zcash Community Forum

• Zooko explains the Tachyon and Shielded Labs proposal to end ZCG funding and reduce its treasury - @zooko

• Time to end the Zcash Development Fund

• It’s time to end the Zcash Dev Fund - @jswihart

• The new proposal is a reasonable compromise - @jswihart

• Q4 coinholder proposals are live on OpenZcash - @openzcash

• Retroactive grant application: Maya Protocol’s Zcash upstream contributions - Zcash Community Forum

• Retroactive grant application: Zebra high-severity mempool DoS disclosure

• Grant application: ZecMap, the global map of businesses accepting Zcash

• Grant application: Shielded Quest 2026, Zcash education for students in India

• Grant application: Zynova, an online Zcash privacy education programme

• Grant application: Zarcade, a browser arcade that teaches how Zcash keeps payments private

• Grant application: Counzil DAO Manager

• Grant application: Pasta assembly verification bridge

Community Projects 🌐

• ZECATHON submissions are closed: 550 builders registered and 243 projects submitted - @zksnarks

• Cheers to a decade of research and resilience - @pgpzcash

• Zillions, a new browser wallet for Zcash, is here - @Zcash

• Introducing Zillions: Zcash for billions - Zillions_app

• We can disagree about grants. There’s no room for hate

• Keystone answers the most common questions about its data leak - @KeystoneWallet

• Zcash JS, a JavaScript toolkit to build Zcash apps for web, server and mobile - @ZcashLabs

• Sapling was used in 2.88% of non-coinbase transactions in the last 30 days - @zecblock

• 61.3% of observed mainnet nodes already support NU7: upgrade to Zebra 7.0.0 or Zakura 1.7.0 - @zecblock

• How anyone can propose new protocol features through ZIPs - @ZecHub

• ZEC trading is live on ShieldFi with a new ZEC/USDX pair - @Zcash

• Stealth Routing is now live in Edge, powered by HoudiniSwap - @EdgeWallet

• Zingo PC 2.0.27 is ready for NU7 on mainnet: update before activation - Zingo Labs

• zingolib 8.0.0: NU7 mainnet support and faster sync - Zingo Labs

• Zecd v0.9.0 adds NU7 support - Zcash Community Forum

• Konclave v0.15.0 is live, tested on Zcash mainnet - @konclavevault

• Vizor will soon have quantum-unlinkable swaps, with no network upgrade needed - @ebfull

• How to create gift cards in Vizor Wallet - @zcashesp

• zcashskills gives AI agents the Zcash context they need - @naz3eh

• Zcash JS is now in zcashskills - @naz3eh

• Sprout rescue added to zcashskills before NU7 - @naz3eh

• Zcash skills for AI agents - @zypherpunks

• Zigner: offline (airgapped) custody of Zcash on everyday hardware - @zypherpunks

• ZStreet, a live 3D Zcash city where you can follow your transaction (ZECATHON entry) - @adamzkdev

• Local dev environments, TypeScript tools and resources to start building on Zcash - @zecblock

• Zcash Names now works in Edge, Cake and Unstoppable - @ZcashNames

• Round 4 Zcash Names Early Access emails are out - @ZcashNames

• Top ENS names are protected on Zcash Names - @ZcashNames

• New ZecMap features: a live price converter on every business page and more - Zcash Community Forum

• Sapling: using any market from your Zcash wallet, one month in

• Noir Wallet joins Free Society Hack as a mentor partner - @noir_wallet

• Zecky Lock it: up to four optional locks for holding Zcash long term - @zeckyapp

• ZEC as collateral: non-custodial strategy insurance on Zcash - Zcash Community Forum

• Zblind (formerly Zash): a free Telegram bot to learn Zcash in Spanish - Zcash Community Forum

• New record: Zcash network hashrate reaches 32.34 GH/s - @zecstats_

• Zcash is about 87 days away from 2,000,000 fully shielded transactions - @zecstats_

• 0xramp passes 500 settled orders - @0xramplabs

• ZecHub DAO proposal A185 passes: Zcash workshops and a hackathon track at BlockchainUNN, November 9 to 14 - @ZecHub

• ZecHub hosts a 10th anniversary Community Call with an open stage - @ZecHub

• The top 5 films of the Zcash 10th Birthday Short Film Festival, live from Zcon7 - @ZkAv_Club

• Zk Av Club films made from the Zcon archive for Zcash’s first decade - @ZkAv_Club

• Zcast Live #22: Zcash, 10 years defending the right to privacy - @ZcastEsp

• Representing the Zcash community at Merge Madrid 2026 - @gordonesTV

• Club Zcash Barcelona at Merge Madrid, pushing crypto adoption across Spain - @gordonesTV

• Zcash 360 episode 65: the anniversary month in review - @zcashesp

• Ten years of Zcash, told through its documents and community - @zcashbrazil

• ZEC Trivia Season 3: a fun quiz on Zcash and privacy, October 29 - @zcashbrazil

• Grayscale Zcash Trust sees four days in a row of net inflows - @zcashkorea

• A Russian-language video about Zcash - @ruZCASH

• Zcash Nigeria’s 10th birthday highlights from Lagos - @ZcashNigeria

• The African Zcash community celebrates a decade of privacy - @ZcashNigeria

• Happy 10th birthday from Zcash Ghana - @ZcashGH

• Zcash South Africa announces its 10th birthday campaign winners - @Zcash_SA

• Zodl View-Only Wallets explained in isiZulu - @Zcash_SA

• Last day to enter the Zcash Birthday Video Contest - @ZcashEastAfrica

• How much of your financial life should the world see? - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Photos from Zcash Arabia’s 10th birthday meetup - @ZcashArabia

• ZSchool panelists for Zcash World: privacy and chain abstraction - @ZcashIND

• NU7 turns on the Network Sustainability Mechanism, explained in Italian - @InsideZcash

• Happy birthday, Zcash, from Nozy Wallet - @Nozywallet

• Zcash turns 10: a fireside look back with @theKroyX - @zec_forge

• Edge at 12: from Bitcoin conferences to Zcash meetups - @EdgeWallet

• A friendly visual guide to Crosslink - @ZECOS_

• Don’t let the drama distract you from OpSec - @ZECOS_

• LiveZEC’s GTA VI giveaway is still open; entries close November 11 - @LiveZEC

• NozyWallet is ready for NU7 - @Nozywallet

• Zucchini Wallet extension coming with the Zakura engine and private payments - @Zucchinifi

• Introducing LeekWallet: a DIY Zcash hardware wallet you can build for about $25

• Zafe, a shielded multisig for Zcash, is in beta and looking for testers - Zcash Community Forum

• zcash-faucet: get testnet TAZ from your terminal - Zcash Community Forum

• Introducing HIDN, anonymous confessions built on Zcash - Zcash Community Forum

• A zero-knowledge age gate with shielded payments is looking for a security reviewer - Zcash Community Forum

• Introducing Zift: ask anything about Zcash data in plain English - @zecblock

• Zcash Names are live in Unstoppable Wallet - @ZcashNames

• Zcash Names: marketplace, app logins and subdomains coming soon - @ZcashNames

• Zecky’s Lock it, Rock it, Split it and Pocket, shown in one take - @zeckyapp

• Net +2,638 ZEC moved into the shielded pools on October 29 - @zecstats_

• A Tachyon reading session at Devcon - @zypherpunks

• Pune showed up for privacy: 140+ guests and 128 Zodl wallets created at Zcash Community Connect - @ZcashIND

• Zcash World explainer video bounty results: 12 winners - @ZcashIND

• Nym joins the ZSchool panel at Zcash World Mumbai - @ZcashIND

• Zcash South Africa at the Cross-Border Payments Conference in Johannesburg - @Zcash_SA

• Weekly AMA: inside Nozy Wallet with its founder - @Zcash_SA

• 10 years of Zcash, celebrated across Africa - @ZcashEastAfrica

• The Zcash Brasil Store: community shirts and hoodies - @zcashbrazil

• QQSZ anniversary challenge with prizes - @zcashesp

• You can buy books with ZEC - @ZcastEsp

• Tips for starting a Club Zcash - @ZcastEsp

• A Grammy winner in Venezuela now accepts Zcash for his courses and mastering services - @gordonesTV

• Six days left to move old ZEC out of Sprout - @ruZcash

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