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Network Stats | Aug 16th - 23rd Transfer Count: 139,962I: 30,988O: 35,194S: 3161 T: 70,619 Transaction Count: 47,445I: 13,722O: 6195S: 1596T: 30,307 Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)I: -599,298O: 302,517S: 3158 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,892,707I: 3,596,359O: 533,301S: 527,559T: 12,154,446SP: 22,621Lockbox: 58,419 Total Shielded Supply: 4,738,261

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Zcash Foundation, Valar Group & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• In case you missed it: Migrate with Privacy is live. - @zodl_app

• The next Zcash Crosslink workshop! Come one, come all! :-) ❤ - @zooko

• Designing Ironwood Migration for Privacy: A Retrospective on ZIP-318 and Wallet Design - @zodl_app

• We have chosen a snapshot height for NU7 Coinholder Poll approximately August 24th 19:00 UTC - ebfull

• Read the full text of ZIP-318 here: zips.z.cash/zip-0318 - @zodl_app

• Zodl 3.10.0: Coinholder Polling with Ironwood Support - @zodl_app

• Arborist Call 08-20-2026 - @zcashfoundation

• 🦓 Zcon7 is here - ¡Vamos! 🎉 - @ZcashFoundation

• Security is foundational to everything we build at ZODL. - @zodl_co

• We’re currently hiring a full-time Director of Security to lead this function for the long term. Apply here! - @zodl_co

• Privacy is not left or right. Privacy is a human right. - @zodl_co

• Haven’t migrated to Ironwood yet? Make sure to, before the upcoming poll snapshot to participate. Have any questions feel free to DM - @zodl_support

• Zodi v3.9.5 (iOS) and v3.9.3 (Android) are now available. - @zodl_support

• If you are a member of the Zcash Foundation’s Community Advisory Panel, or if you are a holder of Zcash coins (or might become one!), then please read this. :-) - @zooko

• Zero - indexer - @aquietinvestor

• Today, @zodl_co is announcing the next step: Pretty Good Policy for Zcash, or PGPZ @pgpzcash. - @paulbrigner

• Weekly policy memo: August 17 2026 | PGPZ Community - @divijpandya

• We adapted libsecp256k1’s modular inversion to the Pasta curves and improved performance by 4.6x. - @ZakuraZcash

• Faster Ironwood Merkle Hashing from Position-Weighted Sinsemilla - @ZakuraZcash

• This is part of a series of blog posts. Each day, we’ll be describing a Zakura cryptography improvement contributed from @TachyonZcash or @ValarGroup. - @ZakuraZcash

• Zakura is aggressively optimizing Zcash’s cryptography for full nodes, miners and wallets. - @ZakuraZcash

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcashers should add 📍Amsterdam as destination for September. - @ZcashCommGrants

• Grant Application - Zcash Hack to Dark during Devcon 8, Mumbai - @webzero

• Grant application - Pretty Good Policy for Zcash — PGPZ

• Now that Zaino 0.8.0 is out, I wanted to give an update on both the recent vulnerability reports and disclosure work, and the new mempool subsystem that landed as part of this release. - @Zingo Labs

• @fdecroix ZCG has voted async to approve this proposal. Congratulations! — ZCG

• Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 8/17/2026 — ZCG

• [Grant Application] SHPH: High-Assurance Post-Quantum Network Layer for Censorship Resistance - @mori

• BTCPayServer Multi-Store Support and Native GraphQL Client - @1337bytes

• Rlay Hub Event Summary - @Batuhan

• ZK AV Club Monthly Community Workshops Open Call - @ryan.taylor

• Zcash Türkiye — 19.08.2026 Report - @Batuhan

• [Grant Application] Reusable Halo2 Verifier Security Testing Infrastructure (ZKCG Reference Implementation) - @skye_yayaya

Community Projects 🌐

• Zcash: Financial Privacy in the Age of Al - @Grayscale

• Cypherpunk holds ZEC. Now Cypherpunk mines ZEC. Onward. - @cypherpunk

• the zcash thesis has only gotten stronger - @blknoiz06

• Zecmap has received views from exactly 65 different countries on X over the past 3 months. - @ZecMap

• We have a new meetup in Barcelona! - @gordonesTV

• We have a new relief case to share.- @gordonesTV

• If you’re new to Zcash take a look at zecstats.com. - @jeremiahrogers

• Zcashd to Zebra & Zakura: How Zcash Nodes Evolved - @ZecHub

• A new section featured on ZecHub Wiki: Use Cases - @ZecHub

• Want to start contributing to Zcash and earning ZEC? 🛡️Take a tour of ZEC Bounties - @ZecHub

• Road to Ironwood Part 5 🌲Concluding the series @OmegaOnChain gives insight into Zcash’s Post Quantum Recoverability! - @ZecHub

• ZecHub DAO Proposal A172 has passed 🎉 @ZcashEastAfrica launching its merchant adoption program and continues community growth aug-oct! - @ZecHub

• If nobody understands privacy, who will use it? - @HouseofChimera x @Zechub

• ZK OG @zkDragon who built @osmosis explains why he went all-in on Zcash. - @therollupco

• 1/ Introducing ZecBuy! Buy useful goods directly with shielded ZEC. - @zecbuy

• Zcash reaching a stage of growth in which multiple products and projects with the same function are springing up everywhere. - @zksquirrel

• Bought a flight ticket with $Zec using @P2Pdotme and @Cleartrip - @JustZappIt

• ZEC Battlefield. So cool! - @taminevg

• @zkDragon on making Zcash quantum private: - @maxdesalle

• Zcash is mythos-audited quantum recoverable formally verified thermodynamic encrypted unstoppable Bitcoin at planetary scale. - @cypherpunk

• Launching Cypherpunk Mining - @will__mcevoy

• .@will__mcevoy on the Zcash ASIC supply chain - @cypherpunk

• BREAKING: @zecbuy is live, enabling users to buy Mullvad VPN subscriptions and eSIMs directly with shielded ZEC. - @cypherpunk

• Mining Zcash protects the machinery of freedom. - @cypherpunk

• Why Cypherpunk mining ZEC changes everything for Zcash - @maxdesalle

• New website - @cypherpunk

• Money should have an exit - @paulbrigner

• Zcash is the most exciting and undiscovered opportunity in crypto - @tyler

• Followed by an after-party at @FishCityStudios, the Zcash-accepting art gallery! - @BostonZcash

• Our video challenge the winners are here! - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Would you want your entire financial history visible to anyone who knows your wallet address? - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Every time you transact publicly, you leave a mark. - @ZcashNigeria

• Zcash Nigeria Hackathon - @ZcashNigeria

• The Zcash Developers Residency Programme - @ZcashGH

• Zcash Developer Workshop #03 is here! - @ZcashIND

• Meet the non-custodial way to move between Zcash (and other cryptocurrencies) and INR via UPI. - @0xramplabs

• @NEARLegion × @ZcashIND Builder Workshop: Ahmedabad Edition!🦓 - @ZcashIND

• Crypto mining is heating up again! - @ZcashIdn

• People are still treating $ZEC like an old privacy coin while the ecosystem is quietly leveling up. - @PorterNovaX

• The Koreans need to learn more about zcash - @vaydrashield

• DYK if two people want the same Zcash name during early access, and they joined the waitlist around the same time, one can get ahead - @ZcashNames

• We protect the top 1,000 ENS names by X follower count to reduce impersonation, squatting, and misleading claims during launch. - @ZcashNames

• A wallet just migrated 500.00 ZEC ($397K) from the Orchard pool into the Ironwood pool - @shieldedflow

• Dev explains how Tachyon will upgrade Zcash’s privacy, quantum resistance and scalability - @genzcash

• Dev explains why Zcash is better prepared for quantum computers than Bitcoin - @genzcash

• ZEC trading like it had the opposite of an inflation bug - @genzcash

• May the funds be with you. - @genzcash

• Cypherpunk is decentralizing the hash rate and bringing a lot of Zcash mining activity onshore to the United States. 🇺🇸🛡️ - @genzcash

• Network State KaZECstan - @genzcash

• The answer is called #Zcash - @ruZCASH

• Participating in the upcoming $ZEC holders’ poll on the nearest roadmap #Zcash is very simple. - @ruZCASH

• @redbridge_ZEC is preparing a bridge that will connect Zcash with DeFi to earn yields on your ZEC through Avalanche. - @zcashesp1

• Zcash will be present at the Web3Lagos Conference in Nigeria! 🙌🔥- @zcashesp1

• Migrate your ZEC to Ironwood from Zodl before August 24 and participate in the coin holders’ votes on NU7. 🗳️ - @zcashesp1

• We’re not only subscribed to this calendar, but you can also view the events of Club Zcash Barcelona on the Zcash en Español Luma. - @zcashesp1

• Who Wants to Be Zcasher 3.0 - All about @nym @EspanolNym. In August, Who Wants to Be Zcasher continues!. - @zcashesp1

• Private cloud or proprietary hardware? . - @zcashesp1

• What can we build with AFFiNE? - @ZkAv_Club

• What if Web3 projects communicated from their own DNA instead of borrowing design that contradicts it? - @ZkAv_Club

• Ira, brand strategist and @GETDWeb organiser behind Embrace Variety, joins Ryan at @FundingCommons in Berlin to address something Web3 keeps missing. - @ZkAv_Club

• Zodl 3.10.0 reintroduces the Coinholder Polling feature to the Zodl app - @ZcashArabia

• Issue 32 of Zcash News is now available in Arabic - @ZcashArabia

• 3 Days for Zcash, 30 New Users, and a 48-Hour Hackathon at Rlay Hub! - @ZcashTR

• Embrace Variety: Ira on Web3 Reputation for Developer-Founders - @ryan.taylor

• We’ve launched the call for applications for our 8th Meetup in collaboration with Diana, NYM’s official ambassador who lives in Mexico - Palmer

• Updated Ironwood wallet Libraries - final update. - @emersonian

• After trying for a while to recover our previous account and receiving no response to our requests from the X team, we’ve decided to create a new account. - @yoditar

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Jobs in the Ecosystem

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