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Network Stats | December 28th - January 4th Transfer Count: 114,219O: 18,213S: 3214 T: 92,792  Transaction Count: 48,567O: 7111 S: 1664T: 39,990  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: 194,981S: -705 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,470,143.O: 4,209,964S: 627,238T: 11,607,459SP: 25,481Lockbox: 8763 Total Shielded Supply: 4,862,684 Node Count: 118Zebrad: 49Zcashd: 69

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Encrypt the money. - @ShieldedLabs

• CEO of Electric Coin Company, Josh Swihart on Digital Spenders Club Episode “ Spenders Only”

• Zcash Workshop with Crosslink, Zashi app, and ZcashMe On 3 January 2026

• Happy New Year Zcashers! 2026 is going to be epic. Get ready! 🎇🚀 - @paulbrigner

• Josh Swihart’s leadership at @ElectricCoinCo has been pivotal for Zcash - @ebfull

• 2026 is all about adoption at scale 🚀 Happy New Year Zcash fam! 🛡 - @tonymargarit

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Grant Application: FROST Multi-Signature UI for Zcash Orchard

• Grant Application: Bao-Verified Streaming for Faster Wallet Recovery UPDATE

• December 2025 Update - zcvlib: v0.2.0

• Global Ambassador Elzz December 2025 Report

• Zcash Brazil achieved their 12th milestone of 2025

• Proposal for a grant to build Privacy bridge: A Defi Platform for Zcash Users

• Tamil’s Demo ~ Benny Learns Blockchain of of how messages can now be sent back and forth between the red·bridge custom Avalanche

• Zcash Developer Relations Engineer December 2025 - Executive summary

• Zcash Korea Global Ambassador Activity Report (December)

• Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026 Update

• Zcash Ukraine – Monthly Report (December 1–31, 2025)

• Zcash Nigeria – Monthly Activity Reporting period : 1st December - 31 th December 2025

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

• ZecHub 2025: An Education Hub for Zcash latest project update

• [ZCG Proposal] Read-Only Zcash Activity Scanner & Semantics Layer for Developers/Infrastructure

• ZecPay: Native Zcash Payment Infrastructure for E-commerce

• Z3G: Zcash Z3 RPC Compatibility Gateway for zcashd Deprecation

• TxGuard: Zcash v5 Consensus Branch‑ID Preflight (CLI + GitHub Action)

• Zcash Network Health API: Production Monitoring Infrastructure

Community Projects 🌐

• We’re Back 🧙‍♂️ Help Us Move Zcash Forward in 2026! - @ZecHub

• This is the destination. - @cypherpunk

• Zucchini Wallet Feedback

• Zcash Web Wallet v0.2.0 - @dwillems42

• The rise of ZEC and Privacy: - @EliBenSasson

• 2025 was a great year for Zk Av Club - @ZkAv_Club

• CipherScan Explorer Update

• Web3Privacy now Awards 2025 are live!. Favourite pro-privacy project: + @zashi_app integration with @NEARProtocol swaps and Flexa - @web3privacy

• Happy New Year to all my #Zcash family! - @gordonesTV

• 🧾 Preparing your Zcash stack for 2026 - @Zcash_ua

• Charitable Giving with Zcash - emersonian

• The main theme of crypto investment in the fourth quarter was privacy, especially Zcash - @Grayscale

• Syncing zebrad 3.1.0 and lightwalletd 0.4.18

• ✨ Thank You, Zcash — What a Year! - @ZcashGH

• Zashi app is not support on the default multi-coin firmware.Please update your device to the cypherpunk firmware. - @KeystoneWallet

• ife’s been so easy for me since i started using @zashi_app for payments - @CQ_Elzz

• .@balajis: “The two major innovations on Bitcoin were programmability, in the form of Ethereum, and privacy in the form of Zcash. - @genzcash

• En 2026 #Zcash seguirá impulsando el desarrollo y las comunidades a través de su programa de grants del @ZcashCommGrants - @gordonesTV

• Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - @Zcash $ZEC - @Crypto_Dep

• Mi nuevo post en la web de @zcashesp: - @gordonesTV

• 📃 ¡Guarda la Fecha: ¡Tres Eventos Emocionantes Llegan en 2026! - @zcashesp

• ¡Hoy! Te esperamos aquí: - @ZcastEsp

• Bitwise File for $ZEC ETF

• Entering the New Year with Gratitude - Thank You, Zcash Community - uknowzork

• ZCASH $ZEC BECOMES TOP-PERFORMING LARGE-CAP CRYPTO OF 2025 - @scottmelker

• An hour ago, an identical amount of ZEC exited shielding to a new transparent address. - @ruZCASH

• 2026년 새해 복 많이 받으세요!!!!!!!- @zcashkorea

• The top traded crypto on LeoDex in 2026 is $ZEC by a huge margin - @leodexio

• Amazing high-signal podcast from @mert and @balajis. - @0xherve

• ICYMI we did a rapid fire on @_TalkingTokens with @Mert about - @jacqmelinek

• doxed via orb baby - @mert

• 🛡️ Libertad de permanecer anónimo. - @ZingoLabEsp

• Cifra tu Bitcoin 🛡️ Intercambia BTC → ZEC (Zcash) - @zcashesp

• ZCASH: A EVOLUÇÃO DA PRIVACIDADE - @rafaelando__

• For clarity: we purchased an additional $29M of Zcash at @cypherpunk - @will__mcevoy

• Privacidade para começar de novo. - @zcashbrazil

• El 2026 se acerca rápidamente, si quieres estar al tanto de todo lo que ocurre en el ecosistema $ZEC, haz lo siguiente:- @zcashesp

• ZEC Is Not Money - @PineAnalytics

• Do we see Zcash as MoE?

• Liberdade para fechar ciclos. - @zcashbrazil

• Privacidade para circular sem ser seguido. -@zcashbrazil

• Finansal mahremiyetini #Zcash ile koruyanlar, yalnızca kendi varlıklarını değil, özgür bir geleceğin temellerini de güçlendirir. - @ZcashTR

• 🔮 Zcash Sahneye Geri Dönüyor 🧙‍♂️ - @ZcashTR

• 🔒 Zcash: Gizliliğin Teknolojik Dili- @zcashTR

• Zcash, gelişmiş kriptografiyle finansal işlemlerinizi dış tehditlere karşı korur 🛡️ - @zcashTR

• Zcash ile Merkeziyetsiz Bir Gelecek İnşa Etmek - @ZcashTR

• As this year is coming to an end, we want to send warm holiday wishes to all Zcash communities, privacy lovers, ZK users, builders, and supporters around the world. - @ZcashNigeria

• Happy New Year, Zcash community & lovers of privacy! 🎉 - @ZcashNigeria

• Stop Selling Privacy: The Substrate Imperative - @DignityCipher

• En #Zcash tenemos diversas direcciones con distintos usos. - @ZingoLabEsp

• 💬 “Privacy is infrastructure, not a feature.” - @Zcash_ua

• What Zcash showed regulators in 2025 - @Zcash_ua

• 이제 #지캐시 유통량의 30%가 Shielded pool에 존재합니다. - @zcashkorea

• #ETH Fusaka upgrade #Zcash 얼룩말이 함께하네요.🦓 - @Mindmovesme

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