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Network Stats | August 17th - August 24th Transfer Count: 49,542 O: 14,400 S: 2502 T: 32,640  Transaction Count: 18,619 O: 3565 S: 1317 T: 13915  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: -127792S: -90506 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,182,013O: 2,774,510S: 903,586T: 12,478,135SP: 25,781Lockbox: 58,961 Total Shielded Supply: 3,703,878 Node Count: 72Zebra 2.5.0: 13Zebra 2.4.2: 2Zebra 2.4.0: 1Zebra 2.3.0: 11zcashd 6.3.0: 40zcashd 6.2.0: 5

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Announcing ZF’s 3-year vision for community events - ZcashFoundation

• Which topics would you be most excited to learn about at Zcomm? - ZcashFoundation

• Freedom is going up, but on Zcash and not Bitcoin - @ShieldedLabs

• Zcash: It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. - @ShieldedLabs

• Zcash R&D Arborist Call 08-21-2025 - @ZcashFoundation

• We were told y'all like NGU - @ShieldedLabs

• Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcash Deprecation) - @Pacu

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcash Community Grants Meeting: August 18, 2025 - ZCG

• CoinHolder Polling on Retroactive Grants Program for Network Upgrade 6.1 is open!

• Grant proposal: cycles AI - a shielded gateway to bring Zec to DeFi - @DaltonicLLC

• Zcash community grant proposal: Twitter ambassador program by @_tm3k

• Grant application - Pretty Good Policy (PGP) for crypto event - @paulbrigner

• Zcash global Turkish 2025 Q3-Q4 - @Batuhan

• CoinCard accepts shielded ZEC payments - @artkor

• Crosslink workshop: Wednesday, Aug 27 - aquietinvestor

• Zcash Nigeria 2025 (Aug - October) - community grants

Community Projects 🌐

• Subscribe to Zcash event calendar - @ZecHub

• Did you know Zebra is the full node implementation of the Zcash protocol? - @ZecHub

• 25 ZEC video ad contest - @genzcash

• Community Update #1 KoanVM for Zcash

• Zcash dashboard featured at zkp.baby - @ShieldedLabs

• Zk Av Club Foundry #7: Importance of Audio - @ZkAv_Club

• Zcash lightwalletd tutorial - @dismad8

• Having shielded transactions does not only make coins more fungible, it also makes transactions more censorship resistant. - @TheFrankBraun

• Fact: 12 months ago, shielded pools held 1.5M ZEC - @ruZCASH

• PepperSync algorithm innovation - @ZingoLabs

• Money without surveillance is not nostalgia, it’s the plan - @zkjays

• Zero-Knowledge Proofs explanation - @gordonesTv

• Prove privacy has PMF? Buy something with Zcash - @zksquirrel

• Zcash community is pure soul - @Mindfiction

• The truth: Privacy is Normal - @Zcash

• Zcash is encrypted electronic cash - @ZcashTR

• Move ZEC into Orchard pool during registration window - @Zcash

• Zcash shielded news | Vol.40 - @ZecHub

• Ways anyone can contribute to Zcash | A thread - @thecodebuffet

• Learn about Zingo 2.0 update interview - @ZingoLabs

• Getting ZEC into the latest shielded pool is easy - @Zooko

• Letter one year after joining Shielded Labs - @Zooko

• Reading list: Tachylon scaling Zcash - @erickuhn19

• 1% in ZEC cashback Gemini card - @Zooko

• Views & subscribers uptick via Brave Partner Program - @zcashmedia

• Zcash Wallet Talk Cycle: Metamask integration - @zcashesp

• Set up your Zcash Club livestream - @ZingoLabsEsp

• Who Wants to Be a Zcasher? Winners - @gordonesTv

• Successful Zcash Ghana Meetup onboarded 25+ - @ZcashGH

• New Tachyon announcement soon? - @genzcash

• Privacy is normal - @zcashkorea

Meme of the week 😊

https://x.com/_tm3k/status/1958277412837539876

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub