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Network Stats | April 12th - 19th Transfer Count: 111,570 O: 18,398 S: 2903 T: 90,269  Transaction Count: 48,138 O: 7429 S: 1507 T: 38,428  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: -4689S: 9960 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,667,097O: 4,548,810S: 599,997T: 11,461,533SP: 25,409Lockbox: 31,345 Total Shielded Supply: 5,205,563 Node Count: 77Zebrad: 48Zcashd: 29

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Zebra 4.3.1: Critical Security Fixes, Dockerized Mining and Cl Hardening - @ZcashFounfation

• Zcash Arborist Call. April 16, 2026 - @ZcashFounfation

• Security Advisory: Reduce Your zcashd Attack Surface by Shielding It Behind Zebra - @ShieldedLabs

• Zcash cybersecurity defenders never sleep. - @zooko

• We’re hiring at @zodl_co Openings here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/zodl - @jswihart

• Encrypt your money - @zodl_app

• Encrypted commerce is already here. 😎🛡️ - @BostonZcash

• Decentralized, self-managed, and encrypted. You own it, or they own you. - @jswihart

• NEAR is back up, and thus so are @Zodl_app Swaps & Crosspay. - @BostonZcash

• We envision a world without mass financial surveillance, where law⁠-⁠abiding people can transact freely and privately, without fear that their data will be exploited, sold, or weaponized by criminals, corporations, or governments. - @zodl_app

• Security Disclosure: We’ve released zcashd v6.12.1, and the Zcash Foundation has released Zebra v4.3.1, addressing four vulnerabilities – including an Orchard action-encoding bug that could crash nodes and a related consensus-split issue between the two clients. - @zodl_co

• Crosslink Milestone 5: Successfully Concluded — ShieldedLabs

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 4/13/2026 — ZCG

• Update your Zcash Nodes - @ZcashCommGrants

• ZPrivDEX — building a shielded AMM on Zcash - @startersplugs

• The updated zebra PR is finally up - @antonleviathan

• Feedback Request: Zcash Grant Hub - @gorusys

• Six repos have all had reproducible build PRs composed, and those still in Draft will be opened shortly. We aimed to target high impact projects across a number of leading organizations. - @Distrust Affiliate

• Zcash network school | @andr9froes ZCG has voted to approve this proposal. Congratulations! — ZcashCommunityGrants

• Zcash Marketing at Istanbul Blockchain Week & Community Activation | proposal approved - @Batuhan

• Marketing at ETHCC+ Exxxotica, Chicago | @fabacab and I just returned from Exxxotica Chicago with Bianca Stone and Kat. This was an adult entertainment industry and content creator convention. - @readymouse

• Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program Q2 2026 - Now Accepting Proposals — ZCG

• Retroactive grant application - Zcash Grants Hub (Coinholder program) - @gorusys

• The Key Holder orgs (SL and ZF) have successfully disbursed funds to the one winning grantee (Maya). — ZCG

• Zcash Browser Wallet Library Hi everyone, I’m back with another update on our maintenance efforts: WebZ.js + MetaMask Snap — February + March 2026 - @ColinSchwarz

• Grant Application: BTCPayServer Zcash Plugin: Per-Store Zcash Configuration for Multi-Store BTCPay Instances - @boummy

• Grant Application - Castle Labs Research - @francesco_castlelabs

• ZCG is excited to share that we will be funding @squirrel and @Kenzo to represent cash at DWeb Camp this year — ZCG

Community Projects 🌐

• Delayed flight? Stake and Travel!! @ShieldedLabs team took the claim seriously to make Zcash FUN. The crosslink feature net is a total success. -@thecodebuffet

• Zcash: 3x Faster Blocks Without Higher Wallet Sync Cost - @spartablock

• Today we launched our new website and investor dashboard with key metrics. We’ve also purchased an additional 9,163.32 ZEC at an average purchase price of $234.63 per ZEC. - @cypherpunk

• @Zcash private P2P offramp is live. And it’s built differently. No banks. No exchanges. - @looftaxyz

• Zcash Engineering Office Hours #8 [Protocol Study Series] Guided reading of 12 sessions of the Zcash Protocol Specification, starting April 21. With @shieldedmark and @nate_zec | Tuesday, April 21 - @zcashbrazil

• On Wednesday, April 15, 2026, we took a major step forward at Zcash Ghana 🇬🇭 - @ZcashGH

• Zcash Z3 update | April 17th -@pacu

• @ZcashIND Live #01 is a wrap. 77 attendees showed up for the first ever Zcash India online meetup. 40 minutes. Zero walkouts. We set a target of 65+. We blew past it.- @zcashIND

• This week! Join us for our EP7T6, with @thecodebuffet — zcastEsp

• Zcash 360º - EP 51 - @zcashesp

• X-Space Alert | Zcash Ghana “Shielded Economy: Building with Zero-Knowledge Privacy on Zcash” April 21st

• Zcash Q1 2026 Quarterly Report - @PineAnalytics

• Zcash Quarterly Report Q1 2026 by Blockworks Advisory - @Blockworks

• Zcash Engineering Office Hours #8 - @zcashbrazil

• We are proud to welcome @Zcash and @ZcashFoundation as a Gold Sponsor of the Women in DeFi Summit 2026. - @womenindefi_org

• What a pleasure to see this interview with Pacu! - @Yoditar

• What we’re building, where it’s going, and where you can step in if you’ve been watching from the edges. Join if you’re curious. Stick around if you want to contribute. - @ZkAv_Club

• April 16th, Zcash Arborist Call packed serious progress across the stack - @ZcashNigeria

• The more it remains transparent, the worse it gets over time. -@theroplupco

• Mert warns transparent crypto gets worse over time - @TheRollup

• The race is ON 🔥 The Engage leaderboard is heating up and only the most consistent contributors will stay on top. - @thedrakel

• RESEARCH: @Zcash shielded transaction share hit 59.3% in February 2026, up from 30% a year ago, with the 2026 average at 40.2%, pointing to structural growth. - @CoinDesk

• The primary driver was a single product decision. @zodl_app began routing users into the encrypted pool by default. When privacy becomes the default path, adoption follows. - @CoinDesk

• Foundry Zcash Pool is officially live! Since our announcement last month, we’ve seen rapid hashrate growth reaching ~30% of network hashrate. Institutional miners have been looking for compliant, purpose-built $ZEC infrastructure, and we’re proud to deliver it. - @FoundryService

• Here is Zcash’s roadmap to becoming fully post-quantum. - @arjunkhemani

• Not Zcash. Once it scales, integrate encrypted payments into X. The ability to transact privately is a subset of free speech. - @arjunkhemani

• CypherScan - Crosslink Explorer - @ZecHub

• Crosslink Incentivised Feature Net Season 1 is LIVE! - @ZecHub

• Attended @ZcashIND First Offline Event at AITR INDORE. - @Ritikdhanotiya0

• I attended the @ZcashIND offline event at ACROPOLIS. Gotta learn about Zcash and privacy in web3. 🔥 - @krunverma

• Get set for @ShieldedLabs Crosslink Incentivized Feature Net 🚀 -@ZecHub

• Zcash’s voting system has roots in Cosmos @ZecHub runs the committee polling using DAODAO. Its first action is making an Osmosis account - @zkDragon

• What’s the main goal of @web3privacy? by @PG_CDG at Zcomm 2026. - @ZecHub

• Crosslink Feature Nets 🚀 Phase 1 ▶️ Proving the core design in a working vertical stack, including end-user UX demos. The system should demonstrate that all key components work together. - @ZecHub

• Zcash Z3 Updates A summary of recent development activities in the Zcash ecosystem is provided - @ZcashTR

• Red-Bridge Update: Significant Progress in Infrastructure and Security! - @ZcashTR

• Fiat to Zcash Conversion (Peer Integration) - @ZcashTR

• Ipê Village 2026 - Talk: ATH In Collaboration! A guide to becoming a contributor to the Zcash Ecosystem - @ipecity

• Zcash is not just a coin — it’s a strong and growing ecosystem with open grants, governance processes, and active support for those who want to contribute - @ZcashTR

• Zcash Protocol In-Depth Reading Series Begins! A fantastic opportunity for those interested in cryptography and privacy technology- @ZcashTR

• RT @thecodebuffet: Tomorrow I’m going to be talking about how to contribute to the Zcash ecosystem for devs and non-devs - @ZcashTR

• Zcash Community Grants Meeting Summary - @ZcashTR

• Blockchain Privacy Revolution: Zcash’s 4-Stage Journey - @ZcashTR

• Coinholders-Directed Retroactive Grant Program (Q2 2026) Applications Are Now Open! - @ZcashTR

• ZecHub | Meeting Updates Summary - @ZcashTR

• 🛠️ Zcash Core Update (Including R&D) - @ZcashTR

• Zodl (formerly known as Zashi) updates are continuing unabated 🚀 - @ZcashTR

• Zcash Ecosystem Summary This week’s standout developments in the Zcash ecosystem - @ZcashTR

• Zcash’s Future: Transition from Monolithic to Modular Structure (Z3 Stack) - @ZcashTR

• Speculation or real protection? - @ZcashTR

• Time to have fun with crosslink! - @dwillem42

• Feature request: I want to support Brave by paying in Zcash. Doing it that way helps protect me from hackers and kidnappers, and it is also more convenient than the alternative. Especially if I pay from my Brave Wallet. - @zooko

• Strong collaboration signals from the community. - @ZcashNigeria

• That wraps up the Zcash Arborist Call, steady progress across Zebra, Z3, Crosslink, and core research. - @ZcashNigeria

• What is Halo Arc? The latest upgrade to Zcash is changing how privacy works on-chain 👇 ✨ Shielded-by-default transactions ⚙️ Trustless proofs with Halo 🌐 Simple + seamless unified addresses Private. Scalable. Powerful. - @Godsboyfrosh

• Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost something truly valuable.” — Billy Graham - @ZcashNigeria

• At the Zcash Meetup Bayelsa April 2026 on April 11th, one question really stood out: If blockchain is about transparency, why doesn’t Zcash reveal identities or transactions? - @Tmoney

• Zcash Beer & Privacy Night: Madrid Edition - @gordonesTV

• Protect your peace and your assets. Privacy Is Freedom. - @ZcashNigeria

• You may be anonymous, but you’re not invisible unless you embrace privacy - @ZcashNigeria

• The $230M mistake - @ZcashNigeria

• Your future self watching you now 👀 You really saw $ZEC underpriced and said ‘I’ll wait’… now look at you refreshing charts in pain. - @ZcashNigeria

• Hey, you said you have nothing to hide and don’t care about PRIVACY? Then why cover your phone screen in public? - @ZcashNigeria

• If the future of AI and quantum computing seems promising to you, then the future of Zcash also seems promising to you (even if you don’t know it yet). - @zcashesp

• Zcash Wallets: @unstoppablebyhs Wallet Learn about Unstoppable Wallet, a wallet geared toward privacy and decentralization enthusiasts. - @zcashesp

• We’re kicking off the first part of the @Blakiat workshop on how to set up a #Zcash node using Zebra from the @ZcashFoundation. — zcashesp

• Getting to Know a New Block Explorer: Cipherscan - @ZingoLabEsp

• Getting to Know a New Block Explorer: Cipherscan 🛡 Block explorers are an essential tool for keeping track of what’s happening at the financial level on a crypto network. - @ZingoLabEsp

• Zcash Shielded Flow has a Telegram channel for notifications of Zcash shielded flows. - @zcashesp

• Freedom of expression, absence of surveillance, and the power to peacefully nullify a State. Zcash is the digital Bill of Rights. - @zcashesp

• 1/7 In #Zcash in Spanish, we encourage active participation from the Hispanic community to support the network through nodes installed in various Latin American countries. - @zcashesp

• This event is organized by the Zcash community in India 🇮🇳. If you live there or know someone, be sure to tell them. Privacy loves company. - @zcashesp

• Privacy is a right. But it’s not just a shield; it’s a tool. Today we’re launching donation campaigns on CipherPay. - @zcashesp

• Fiat-to-#Zcash exchange is now available on Peer. The gateway that preserves the privacy a private currency deserves. No additional verifications. No intermediaries. No CEX. Powered by @near_intents — zcashesp

• Zcash pool and market statistics by @yoditarzk - @zcashesp

• Wallet Updates ➡️ by @Edicksonjga - @zcashesp

• Updates from @jswihart on ZODL ➡️ by @gordonesTV - @zcashesp

• In the crypto world, your name exposes you. It doesn’t have to be that way... Introducing Zcash Names - @zcashesp

• Every 15 days, @gordonesTV, @Edicksonjga, and @yoditarzk are waiting for you to tell you EVERYTHING that’s happening in the #Zcash ecosystem. - @zcashesp

• Shall we play ZEC Trivia? The awesome game by @zcashbrazil to educate and entertain us around #Zcash - @zcastEsp

• 2024, explaining to people the history of money, why #Zcash is necessary in this history, and also teaching how to use wallets like @ZingoLabEsp. — Palmar

• The Foundry Zcash pool is now officially up and running! - @zcastEsp

• Tasks in Spanish on @ZecHub 🛡’s Dework Dework allows DAOs to create and assign tasks, as well as monitor progress and give rewards to those who apply and complete the assigned task. - @zcastEsp

• Encrypted Finance - @Zerodartz

• Want to take your first steps with Git without any hassle? Join our ZK AV Club community workshop and learn how to create repositories, collaborate, and share your projects with @thecodebuffet — ZkAv_Club

• Zcash is not just a ticker... 🛡️ The value of Zcash cannot be measured solely by the surface. Zcash is architecture, cryptography, and infrastructure for freedom. - @zcashbrazil

• Shielded Magazine #14 - @zcashbrazil

• @Zcash isn’t about hiding wrong things—it’s about not turning your entire life into an open book for governments, companies, and nosy onlookers. - @rafaelando_

• Reminder: The start of the first round of the incentivized Crosslink testnet will be today at 2 PM (Brasília time) in the Zcash Global Discord. With real ZEC incentives for testnet participants. There will be a total of 500 ZEC throughout the seasons. - @zcashbrazil

• ZONA Z 🧠 - Edition #33 with @AAmandita_ The Infinity on This Side - The preparation that no one sees and the horizon that changes everything. - @zcashbrazil

• ATTENTION EVERYONE! Fake email about the @zodl_app wallet. - @zcashbrazil

• Privacy is not secrecy, it’s sovereignty.- @zcashbrazil

• What’s going down? ZEC Trivia Quiz: Test your knowledge with questions based on the studies from the #Updates room, starting from 04/02, and come prepared to win prizes in Zcash. - @zcashbrazil

• The Zcash network has just welcomed a major US miner and also gains a new website with information on all ZEC miners, blocks, and rewards: zcashinfo.com - @zcashbrazil

• Privacy as a right! Education as a path! Zcash culture. - @michael2xL

• The world’s largest Bitcoin mining pool @FoundryServices just officially launched a @Zcash pool, and it already controls about 30% of the network hashrate. — elzz

• Zcash Shielded Supply: -300.01 $ZEC (-0.0058%) • Updated Apr 18, 2026, 4:00:00 PM UTC - @Shielded_Zec

• Zcash builders vibe is unmatched right now. The best teams are quietly working on bringing privacy, a human right, to your digital life. -@Kenbak

• Privacy is no longer optional. It’s foundational. - @womenindefi_org

• We’re excited to announce a collaborative meetup with another community that promotes privacy: Logos. - @gordonesTV

• Join us to talk about the april brief of our Zcash ecosystem! - @gordonesTV

• Deterministic 4-Word Aliases for Zcash Addresses (Anti-Spoofing UX Aid) - @gorusys

• We’re giving away $100 in ZEC ($20 × 4 winners + 20$ for other submissions) for the best memes about financial privacy & why @Zcash is important. - @zcashIND

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Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Principal Cryptography & Protocol Engineer - Zodl

• Principal Engineer - Zodl

• Principal Engineer, R&D - Zodl

• Senior Mobile QA Lead - Zodl

• Marketing Assistant - Zodl

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub

• ZKAV Club Opportunities