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Network Stats | January 18th - 25th Transfer Count: 101,231O: 17,439S: 2853T: 80,939 Transaction Count: 42,248 O: 6760S: 1482 T: 34,188  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: -58411S: 1175 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,503,065O: 4,339,125S: 619,364T: 11,519,094SP: 25,481Lockbox: 13,252 Total Shielded Supply: 4,983,970 Node Count: 62Zebrad: 30Zcashd: 32

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Crosslink Workshop: Wednesday, January 28th at 5pm @aquietinvestor

• Shielded Labs received donations from Cameron Winklevoss - @Shielded Labs

• Zcash Foundation on an episode with @Zcastesp featuring featuring our Chief Operating Officer, Danika Delano! - @Zcashfoundation

• Self-sovereign money is impossible without privacy. Anything less is permissioned self-custody - @Shielded Labs

• The Zcash protocol roadmap has not changed - @jswihart

• Questions for the upcoming NU7 Sentiment Poll have been released on the forums - @shieldedmark

• New release: Zebrad 4.0.0 is live - @Zcashfoundation

• Registration period for Coinholders: Protocol feature sentiment poll - @Zcashfoundation

• Zcash foundation: 2025 year in review - @Zcashfoundation

• Strengthening the Zcash Network: Announcing a Native Rust DNS Seeder - @Zcashfoundation

• Zcash Arborist call recordings - @Zcashfoundation

• This is why we built Zcash... for the kingdom of the sovereigns - @jswihart

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes Summary

• Proposal: Privacy-Preserving ZEC Payments for Autonomous AI Agent

• Grant Approved: Marketing Initiatives and Conference Workshops

• Grant Application: Chain Love - ecosystem marketplace

Community Projects 🌐

• Why I’m Against ZSAs - Community Forum

• Why I Support ZSAs - Community Forum

• 🌳 Zcash Arborist Call Summary - @ZcashNigeria

• Zcash Local Meetup (Ibadan) — @thedrekal

• Swap your Zcash for $NYM privately — @nym

• Shield Up: Unlocking Zcash full potential recordings recap — @CQ_Elzz

• If you run zcashd, make sure you update! $ZEC — @dismad

• Innovation is never a distraction — @thecodebuffet

• Zcash Engineering Office Hours: Building Applications presented by

  @shieldedmark - @Zcashbrazil

• Zcash is now live on our Multi-coin firmware. - KeystoneWallet

• ZONA Z 📖 - Edition #21 by @AAmandita_ - @Zcashbrazil

• Cake Wallet has donated 3 ZEC to our Ramadan Aid campaign - @ZcashTR

• Honored to help @cypherpunk execute the machinery of freedom. Onward. - Arjun Khemani

• Come join another edition of Privacy Hour, our monthly Spaces in partnership with @zcashbrazil Tuesday Jan 27th - @NymPortugese

• Zucchini Wallet v0.5.0: Enabling Tipping on @X powered by @zcashme - @Zucchinifi

• 🧭 RHEA Roadmap 2026 | Zcash-Focused DeFi Transformation - @ZcashTR

• Shielded Magazine #02 - Zcash Brazil

• In February we have a date with this unmissable community Workshop from

  @zcashesp article on @free2zcash😉 - @Yendira

• 📣 QQSZ 2.0 EP 11 Join in to have fun while you learn and win prizes along the way! - @Zcashesp

• 2026 is the year of Neo-Cypherpunk — @web3privacy

• Zcash has officially joined the Cake family 🍰 - @Zcashesp

• Demo by @CJfrankie_13: Cake Wallet launches Zcash support - @ZcashNigeria

• 🎙️This week @AnnaRRose talks with @ebfull about @Zcash updates since 2020, Halo in Orchard, the spam attack fallout, and Tachyon, the new shielded pool upgrade using recursive proofs for better scaling and privacy. — @Zkavclub

• 🔍 Need a block explorer and don’t know which one to choose? - @Zcashesp

• Do you know you can now earn $ZEC rewards simply by participating in the Zcash Weekly Quiz hosted by @ZcashNigeria? - @ZcashNigeria

• Tareas en español en el Dework de ZecHub 🛡🛡 - @Zcashesp

• Hosted by @yoditarzk, Autodefensa Digital lets you catch up on the latest news - @Zcashesp

• 2025 was a great year for @ZkAv_Club Foundry, with 10 live streams and 11 workshops! Check out the recap - @Zcashesp

• During 2026 we will be giving out POAPs in all our episodes and Lives - @Zcastesp

• Zebra Talk LIVE - 01/28 at 7 PM with @MeteoraAG - @Zcashbrazil

• The Zcash Shielded Album is now on SoundCloud - @Zcashbrazil

• How to fix your financial privacy in 1 minute - @Zcashbrazil

• Kullanabileceğiniz Zcash (ZEC) Cüzdanları - @ZcashTR

• ✨ We held Türkiye’s first women-only Zcash meetup!- @ZcashTR

• The SEC has officially closed its multi-year investigation into Zcash ($ZEC). ​This isn’t just a win for @Zcash but a massive regulatory milestone for privacy in the cryptocurrency space. Learn more 👇 - @ZcashNigeria

• “Getting Bitcoin maxi PTSD from the Zcash guys who argue against adding complexity” Vlad Costea — @ruZCASH

• We are promoting the use of private, secure and free tools. This year there will be a lot of talk about #Linux within the community.— @Zcastesp

• Decentralization in the limit can not work without privacy — @mert

• Tokenizing real world assets without making them private by default wont work — @zerodartz

• Zcash Shielded Supply: +91.63 $ZEC (+0.0018%) • Updated Jan 23, 2026, 2:00:00 PM UTC — @Shielded_Zec

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Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub